Designing Development to Reduce Crime Designing Development to Reduce Crime Dean Brennan, Robert Odland, Al Zelinka VID 11. Crime, and perhaps more importantly, the fear of crime, are major challenges to the livability of our communities. There is a definite relationship between the physical environment and public safety.
Public safety serves as the cornerstone of vital, economically productive and livable communities.
While preventing crime is a daunting task, overcoming the perception of crime and fear is an even greater challenge. By adding crime prevention and public safety to the already extensive list of planning and design considerations, the ultimate responsibility of protecting the public s general health, safety and welfare is more complete. These three planning professionals from Arizona and California identify the design features that affect our perceptions of safety and demonstrate the role each of us can play to create a safer public realm. An entertaining powerpoint presentation.