The Role of Urban Planning and Urban Design on Safe Cities
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Abstract
Cities are exposed to many security threats in urban areas due to crime and violence, insecurity of tenure and forced eviction, and natural and human-made disasters. Cities have witnessed many challenges and problems, such as: increasing population numbers, housing density, migration to cities, unemployment, poverty, deteriorating infrastructure, unhealthy environment, wars, terrorism and political conflicts. The purpose of this study is to define safe cities and clarify the role of urban planning and design and their elements on safe cities. This paper analyses the role of urban planning and urban design to increase security in safe cities. The research provides an overview of the theories that explain the relationship between urban planning and design and their elements on crime, in addition, it describes the most important planning and design elements that reduce the opportunities for crime like: street planning, land use, building density, and role of management and good governance, in addition to urban design concepts: defensible space, territoriality, access control, surveillance, target hardening, building Image, activity support, and maintenance.