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Urban Planning and Environmental Criminology: Towards a New Perspective for Safer Cities

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At a time of ever-increasing urbanization, research consistently indicates that crime and the fear of crime are key concerns for society and that safety is a vital feature of what is considered a high-quality sustainable environment. This paper critically inspects the theories and evidence from the field of environmental criminology and interrogates some of the safety assumptions underpinning planning policy in the UK, the USA, and in Australia, particularly those policies promoted by New Urbanism. It is argued that planning professionals need to consider and understand this new perspective for safer and sustainable cities, rather than relying on assumptions that are not supported by any systematic evidence.

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  • Paul Cozens, 2011. "Urban Planning and Environmental Criminology: Towards a New Perspective for Safer Cities," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 481-508.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:26:y:2011:i:4:p:481-508
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2011.582357
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    1. Paul Cozens & Terence Love & Brent Davern, 2019. "Geographical Juxtaposition: A New Direction in CPTED," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-22, September.
    2. Lorena Montoya, 2015. "Modelling Urban Crime through Workforce Size: A Test of the Activity Support Concept," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 42(3), pages 399-414, June.
    3. Grace Abou Jaoude & Majd Murad & Olaf Mumm & Vanessa Miriam Carlow, 2024. "Operationalizing the open city concept: A case study of Berlin," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 51(3), pages 721-744, March.
    4. Patricia Leandro-Reguillo & Amy L. Stuart, 2021. "Healthy Urban Environmental Features for Poverty Resilience: The Case of Detroit, USA," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-17, June.
    5. Hongwei Dong, 2017. "Does walkability undermine neighbourhood safety?," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 59-75, January.
    6. David Kostenwein, 2021. "Between walls and fences: How different types of gated communities shape the streets around them," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(16), pages 3230-3246, December.
    7. K.G.N.U Ranaweera, 2023. "An Ecological Bridge for a Criminological Gap: Eight Stages of the Origin and Evolution of Environmental Criminology (From 1800 to 1900)," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(4), pages 1295-1305, April.
    8. Martine Buser & Christian Koch, 2014. "Tales of the Suburbs?—The Social Sustainability Agenda in Sweden through Literary Accounts," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(2), pages 1-22, February.

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