SafeGrowth

SafeGrowth
Author: Gregory Saville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9781977704559

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.

Creating Healthy Neighborhoods

Creating Healthy Neighborhoods
Author: Ann Forsyth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351177575

Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side – physical mental, and social.

Pocket Neighborhoods

Pocket Neighborhoods
Author: Ross Chapin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781600851070

Architect and author Chapin describes existing pocket neighborhoods and co-housing communities while providing inspiration for creating new ones.

Crime and Planning

Crime and Planning
Author: Ph.D., Derek J. Paulsen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1466588713

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns. Effective urban planners and designers will consider crime when making planning and design decisions. A co-publication with the American Planning Association, Crime and Planning:

Creating Defensible Space

Creating Defensible Space
Author: Oscar Newman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 139
Release: 1997
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 0788145282

The appearance of Oscar Newman's Defensible SpaceÓ in 1972 signaled the establishment of a new criminological subdiscipline that has come to be called by many Crime Prevention Through Environmental DesignÓ or CPTED. Over the years, Mr. Newman's ideas have proven to have significant merit in helping the Nation's citizens reclaim their urban neighborhoods. This casebook will assist public & private organizations with the implementation of Defensible Space theory. This monograph draws directly from Mr. Newman's experience as consulting architect. Illustrations.

Segregation by Design

Segregation by Design
Author: Jessica Trounstine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108637086

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.

Safe and Secure Neighborhoods

Safe and Secure Neighborhoods
Author: Stephanie W. Greenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1982
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Study addresses the issue of how some urban neighborhoods maintain a relatively low level of crime despite their physical proximity and social similarity to high crime areas.--Cf. Abstract, p. iii.

Walkable City

Walkable City
Author: Jeff Speck
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0865477728

Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design