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: Received: 26 February 2018 / Approved: 26 February 2018 / Online: 26 February 2018 (12:07:42 CET)
How to cite:
Ratnayake, R.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Rudner, J. Sense of Safety and Planning and Design Policies. Preprints2018, 2018020167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201802.0167.v1
Ratnayake, R.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Rudner, J. Sense of Safety and Planning and Design Policies. Preprints 2018, 2018020167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201802.0167.v1
Ratnayake, R.; Wickramaarachchi, N.; Rudner, J. Sense of Safety and Planning and Design Policies. Preprints2018, 2018020167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201802.0167.v1
APA Style
Ratnayake, R., Wickramaarachchi, N., & Rudner, J. (2018). Sense of Safety and Planning and Design Policies. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201802.0167.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ratnayake, R., Naduni Wickramaarachchi and Julie Rudner. 2018 "Sense of Safety and Planning and Design Policies" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201802.0167.v1
Abstract
Planning, development and design policies influence sense of safety of people touse the City centre or Central Business District (CBD) and therefore city centres can becomeactive and vibrant during the day and night. This paper reviews past and present planningpolicies relevant for feeling of personal safety in the context of housing, retail, amenities,street infrastructure, building design and transportation aspects. The past development trendsshow that insignificant attention has been paid to people's sense of safety when using publicspaces, particularly at night, a factor identified important in creating attractive city centressince 1960s. Local plans primarily refer to safety in relation to roads, accessibility andworkability. Local policies also show the dominance of CCTV since the 1990s has becomeubiquitous, but changes to sense of safety in urban spaces now may actually be a betterreflection of planning and design decisions made over the past 20 years.
Keywords
CBD; planning and design policies; sense of safety
Subject
Social Sciences, Safety Research
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
