The defensible space theory of architect and city planner Oscar Newman encompasses ideas about crime prevention and neighborhood safety. Newman argues that architectural and environmental design plays a crucial part in increasing or reducing criminality. [1]

2010年1月11日 · Defensible space; crime prevention through urban design. Some margins very narrow (left and/or right). Art and text occasionally runs to edge.

By publishing Creating Defensible Space, PD&R is pleased to be part of the continuing growth and evolution of Defensible Space as both a criminological concept and a proven strategy for enhancing our Nation’s quality of urban life.

1976年1月1日 · In The Defensible Space Theory of architect and city planner Oscar Newman encompasses ideas about crime prevention and neighborhood safety.

1973年10月1日 · This is an interesting book that focuses on different features of housing projects in America and looks at their crime rate. They then discuss the features of each apartment block that accounts for their really high or comparatively low crime rate.

Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design Architecture/Urban affairs Volume 75 of Collier books: Author: Oscar Newman: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Macmillan, 1972: ISBN:...

The appearance of Oscar Newman's Defensible SpaceÓ in 1972 signaled the establishment of a new criminological subdiscipline that has come to be called by many Crime Prevention Through...

a series of defensible space hypotheses were developed and analyzed by considering evidence on crime in housing, the pattern of fear in new york city public housing, and the work of predecessors who advanced similar theories.

The author tested theories about the impact of design on crime by undertaking a three year study of urban environments throughout the country. To determine the extent to which architecture can...