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Author(s): P. Cozens
Abstract:
Globally, the environmental movement has played a pivotal role in influencing
the development of sustainability.
Increasingly, urban sustainability is seen as a
new large-scale vision to guide the planning agenda for the twenty-first century.
However, a review of the literature clearly indicates that crime and fear of crime
can seriously undermine the broader aims of urban sustainability.
Furthermore,
analysts tend to focus on levels of recorded crime, largely ignoring the crucial
and arguably more important dimension of citizens’ fear of crime and their
perceptions of their local environment.
This paper provides recommendations for
integrating crime and fear of crime within urban sustainability.
It also proposes
that ‘designing out crime’ represents a vital tool for assisting in the development
of urban sustainability.
Keywords:
urban sustainability, crime and fear of crime, designing out crime,
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
1 Introduction
Cities have many impacts on the environment and upon its inhabitants, both in
contemporary terms and for future generations.
However, if sustainability is to
adequately represent the new large-scale vision to guide the planning agenda for
the twenty-first century [1] it must incorporate a consideration for all potential
threats to the long-term sustainable health and vitality and personal safety of
both the built environment and of its occupants.
This paper discusses a threat to
long-term sustainability, which can seriously challenge the city’s functioning,
vitality and longevity.
The ubiquitous issues of crime and the fear of crime are
included within some sustainability frameworks, but arguably need to be
explicitly integrated.
Analysts tend to focus on levels of recorded crime, largely
ignoring the crucial and arguably more important dimension, of citizens’ fear of
crime and perceptions of their local environment.
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Pages: 10
Size: 379 kb
Paper DOI: 10.2495/SDP070181
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