Designing Out Crime: CPTED

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design or CPTED is an established and effective approach to reducing and minimising crime. Although used by planners and urban designers it contains a number of actions residents can undertake to reduce the opportunity for crime in their neighbourhood.
This video provides a brief introduction to CPTED.
Herding Together has a good online course in CPTED for residents called Creating Communities: Safe Places. The course can be found at herding-together.teachable.com
This is the first in a short series of videos Herding Together will be producing about crime prevention and the role of community.

[@rambling964]

This is an interesting introduction, but I would have liked a little more depth. What makes a space private, semi-public, or public? Can we see some photographs or diagrams of effective ways of indicating the boundaries? Can we also get some example diagrams of good and bad sightlines? How do you make these work together and not against each other? It would seem to me that hedges and plants would also provide hiding places. How does population density change these factors? A busy city street is going to have different advantages to a quiet suburb. And so on :). Thanks for the work!

[@herdingtogether8822]

Great comments. I intend on a series of short videos on CPTED concepts and principles and will discuss these things. Yes, hedges and plants can provide hiding places. In regard to these placement and maintenance are important. I’ll discuss this also in a future video. This can also be complemented by appropriate lighting. Totally agree with density and how busy a place is. Again, I’ll try to deal with this in the next few weeks. Thanks for the comments, greatly appreciated

[@herdingtogether8822]

Crime can be reduced in our suburbs and cities through the use of CPTED