Safe In The City

Author : Peter M.J. Pol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429594045

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The Safe City by Peter M.J. Pol Pdf

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracting new inhabitants and economic activities, safety has become a topical subject. Perceived safety is a major factor in a city's attractiveness and fear of crime can have a large impact on location decisions, with ensuing economic consequences. This book examines the role of security in urban development and its local policy implications. Comparing eleven European cities, it analyses how actual and perceived security is evolving, and what the economic, social and spatial consequences are of a changing perceived security. While crime has decreased in eight of the eleven cities, fear of crime has increased in all of them. This book discusses the factors influencing this fear, including the role of the media, the quality and maintenance of the built environment, socio-economic inequality and terrorism.

Author : Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830477

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The Bird-Friendly City by Timothy Beatley Pdf

How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s? In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shares empowering examples, including: advocates for “catios,” enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley describes, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples to draw from. Whether birds are migrating and need a temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.

Author : Gerda R. Wekerle,Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033970792

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Safe Cities by Gerda R. Wekerle,Carolyn Whitzman Pdf

Ordinary people are natural experts on safety in their own communities. The key to creating a city where people feel safe is to give citizens input into developing safer environments for themselves. This book offers a set of easy-to-follow guidelines - well illustrated with photos - that can be used to improve urban safety. It also includes success stories on the ways that ordinary people, working in partnership with local governments and agencies have taken the initiative to fight back against violent crime in public housing, transit, parks and open places, underground parking, schools, houses and neighbourhoods.

Author : Leo van den Berg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754647234

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The Safe City by Leo van den Berg Pdf

Perceived safety is a major factor in a city's attractiveness and fear of crime can have a large impact on location decisions, with ensuing economic consequences. This book examines the role of security in urban development and its local policy implications. Comparing eleven European cities, it analyses how actual and perceived security is evolving, and what the economic, social and spatial consequences are of a changing perceived security.

Author : Gesa Helms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317008866

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Towards Safe City Centres? by Gesa Helms Pdf

Examining the rising interest in quality-of-life offences, anti-social behaviour and incivilities in urban public spaces, this study explores the rising importance of policing, crime control and community safety policies in the context of the ongoing urban restructuring in old-industrial cities. This is achieved through an extensive exploration into the making and remaking of urban spaces in the city of Glasgow. In so doing, this book puts forward a strong and innovative theoretical argument. Framed in a critical Marxist perspective that draws on debates within German-speaking critical theory and Marxism, this study argues for the centrality of human social praxis in our understanding of contemporary cities. It engages with questions over the production of social space, a (fragmented) social totality and human agency, which so far have only received limited attention in Anglo-American debates.

Author : Robert Hessel
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683506263

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Safe City by Robert Hessel Pdf

A timely books that details the concerted effort and integration of new technology it takes to make communities safer for everyone. It’s a basic human right to feel and be safe in your community—where you live, work, and play. But, few people know or understand everything it takes to make this possible, including making high-tech solutions available to local law enforcement and first responders. From fire departments detecting fires within seconds with thermal imaging to police departments detecting gunfire immediately through gunshot detection sensors, technology continues to evolve daily. Even surveillance cameras have taken great strides from the grainy images of years past, and just one camera can make a difference (read about how police identified the Boston Marathon bombers through a department store’s video camera inside!). Safe City teaches the public how to harden targets and protect their homes, businesses, communities, themselves, and their loved ones. It takes a community effort to help reduce and prevent crime, and Safe City answers the questions people have along with pointing out many more that should be asked. “As someone who is politically active, and involved with urban development, this book is like a playbook for mayors, city council, and county commissioners.”—Topher Morrison, author of The Profitable CEO and managing director of Key Person of Influence “Provides a fact-filled insight into community policing . . . This a good read that delivers a solid understanding of the ‘how and why’ of the future of community policing in America.” —Retired Deputy Chief Metro Detroit Police Department

Author : Chris Pfouts,Marc MacYoung
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1797728172

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Safe in the City: A Streetwise Guide to Avoid Being Robbed, Ripped Off, Or Run Over by Chris Pfouts,Marc MacYoung Pdf

The more things change, the more they stay the same.Originally written in 1994, Safe in the City spoke of a different landscape of crime, violence, drugs, robbery, gang territories and parts of town to clear out of before night fall. Some of those places have changed for the better, some for worse. What hasn't changed is you can increase your safety by understanding how crime and violence happen. This book tells you how. The ability to read your environment and recognize the signs of developing danger is not difficult. It also gives you more personal safety options than the all or nothing approach of be violent or be a victim.Surprisingly, the most effective personal safety measures are non-violent. There is a time and a place for physical self-defense. Those are extreme situations. In daily life knowledge, common sense, avoidance and deterrence will go further to keep you safe.

Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199324163

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The City That Became Safe by Franklin E. Zimring Pdf

Discusses many of the ways that New York City dropped its crime rate between the years of 1991 and 2000.

Author : Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415628150

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Building Inclusive Cities by Carolyn Whitzman Pdf

Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women's safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grassroots action on safer cities for women and everyone, this book is about the right to an inclusive city. The first part of the book describes the challenges that women face regarding access to essential services, housing security, liveability and mobility. The second part of the book critically examines programs, projects and ideas that are working to make cities safer. Building Inclusive Cities takes a cross-cultural learning perspective from action research occurring throughout the world and translates this research into theoretical conceptualizations to inform the literature on planning and urban management in both developing and developed countries. This book is intended to inspire both thought and action.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112105560533

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Gregory Saville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1977704557

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SafeGrowth by Gregory Saville Pdf

SafeGrowth is a new model for building crime-resistant and vibrant neighborhoods in the 21st Century. This book chronicles how SafeGrowth and methods like CPTED - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design - turn troubled places back from the brink of crime. This book compiles the results of recent SafeGrowth conferences and project work in high crime neighborhoods and it describes a new theory in city planning and crime prevention. The book includes chapters on urban planning, community development, crime prevention, and new policing strategies. Chapter authors include criminologists, community workers, urban planners, police specialists, and others directly involved in community work and urban design. Chapters also include summaries of recent SafeGrowth Summits, planning and visioning sessions for creating a new path forward. Chapters include: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Smart Growth planning; livability academies; urban villages and the hub concept; SafeGrowth projects in Saskatoon and Red Deer in Canada and Hollygrove in New Orleans; and the 4 principles of SafeGrowth planning. While the original concept of SafeGrowth was developed by Gregory Saville, the book editor and primary author, other authors expand that original vision and describe a new way to plan and develop cities. The audience for this book includes community development practitioners, urban policy-makers, crime prevention specialists including police, students of urban development and crime prevention, planners, and anyone interested in a new way to create safer and livable neighborhoods.

Author : Chris Pfouts
Publisher : Paladin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0873647750

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Safe In The City by Chris Pfouts Pdf

This is an entertaining street-level look at how crimes are really committed in America's cities. Chris and Animal use their NY-L.A. experience to help you learn the games carjackers, muggers, "gangstas," rapists, junkies and conmen play--and how to avoid them.

Author : Jan Gehl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269841

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Cities for People by Jan Gehl Pdf

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:244302808

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383

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Fixing Broken Windows by George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles Pdf

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.