Safer Spaces & Places: Reducing Crime By Urban Design

[2000] This report is primarily concerned with physical design related to the safety and security of people in the public realm – the spaces and places of our towns and cities. It does not deal with crime related to buildings and their contents, though the two are closely connected. The report focuses primarily on streets, arcades, squares, parks, amenity areas, river and canal walkways, and the small lanes and alleys that together make up the public realm. The difference between an urban space and a place is that a space is an empty architectural creation until people and activities animate it, then it becomes a place.

John Parker, Safer Spaces & Places: Reducing Crime By Urban Design, Szczecin, Poland: Conference of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE) from the Council of Europe 2000.

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