Visibility

Planning, Urban Design
and management for crime prevention
Urban design strategies
Chapter 4: Visibility
Group 4, Gallaratese:
Vincenzo Mallardo, Francesco Fumagalli, Matteo Puglisi, Leonardo Garzon
Bello, Tao Zui, Haitham Nabil, Endra Prianta, Zhang Yezi, Konstanze
Sunder-Plassmann
Link between urban planning and safety
• Crime prevention in the city scale
• „Safety basic principles“ combine with
specification for safety in cities
• Adaptation to the planning area is
necessary
• A melioration of
- quality of life
- producing agreeable social life
Visibility
• Visibility gives the sensation of safety
when is bidirectional.
• When a physical border cut the visibility
immediately people feel unsafe.
• For design public spaces is mandatory to
work always with the viewer point even
when we know that total permeability is
not always possible.
Landscaping, vegetation and
sightlines
SUGGESTIONS:
CRITICISM
:
--landscape
Only someshould
species
not
of
reduce
trees follow
visibility
this rule
- Aesthetic
It can affect
parameters
the
should
thermalnot
comfort
be consider
in
without
differentaseason
revision of
visibility
- Vegetation should have
high permeability
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Views from buildings on
public spaces
SUGGESTIONS:
CRITICISM
:
- The sense
-Blind
walls are
of privacy
a barrier
could
in visibility
be
affected
-Avoiding. buildings whit empty
ground
-It
doesn't
level.
work good in medieval
cities
- The introduction of security
-mechanism
Only can be applied on flat lands
-Public spaces and sidewalks
should be visible from the upper
level of the buildings
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Lighting
CRITICISM:
SUGGESTIONS:
--Lighting
Permanent
gives
light
thecan
impression
be annoying
of
for inhabitants.
safety
, because you can see what’s
going
on around you.
- Neighbourhood
could be affected
-from
Lighting
directcan
lighting
increase
on the
thefacade.
sensation
of
safety whenaspect.
you can recognise the
- Economical
origin of noise.
- Lighting should be designed in a
continues way avoid dark spot.
- Light coming from buildings can
increase the sensation of safety.
Roma
Barcellona
Bus stops, entrance to parking facilities
and metro stations
CRITICISM:
SUGGESTIONS:
-Parking,
station
and for
busallow
stop
- CCTV can
be used
should be visible from the
people
to know what is
surrounding.
happening
outsideshelters.
the metro
- Use transparent
station.
- Clear defined ways without
spots.
-entrapment
Commercial
activities next
-toStops
facing
each help
other.to
the metro
station
-have
CCTV
for metro
station and
a better
environment
parking.
when you go outside the
metro.
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Transparency of shop and visibility
of building entrances
CRITICISM:
SUGGESTIONS:
-Sometimes
people
stopping
in
-Transparency
on first
floor allows
front
of shop
increase
the for the
to have
a better
condition
safety sensation.
opportunity
for thief .
- If
the shops
are notshould
24h during
Building
entrances
be well
lit andthe
night
highly
first visible
floor will
without
be empty.
places
around
hiding.
- Some for
kind
of shops can attract
thief.
- Avoiding retrogression of the
façade it’s good for not create
hiding place but affect in a direct
way the architectural variety of the
buildings.
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Antisocial Behavior
is behavior that lacks consideration for others and that may cause
damage to society.
It’s a violation of: rights of others, societal mores, or the law (such as
irritability, consistent irresponsibility, lack of remorse, failure to
conform to social norms, etc.).