Analyzing the work of Michael Pyatok, FAIA by Ryan R. Horner Residential Security in Public Housing Analyzing the work of Michael Pyatok, FAIA Ryan R. Horner Pyatok has worked in the housing business since the 1970's when he worked with Mexican and American graduate students in creating self help facilities using participatory design.
Defensible space is a method to inhibit crime by displaying social and spatial cues to deter crime.
Working with the assumptions of Oscar Newman in his book Defensible Space, we will analyze one of Pyatok's works. Defensible Space . Macmillian Press, New York. Courting Diversity . Architecture, p. 62-65.