Defensible space evaluated
Subtitle: research topics in public housing
By: Columbia University Urban Design Research Group ; principal investigator, Richard Plunz ; co-investigators, Ronald Clarke [and others] ; project director, Michael Sheridan ; NYCHA project manager, Michael Conard
Contributors: Columbia University. Urban Design Research Group; New York City Housing Authority
Publisher: New York City Housing Authority?
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Crime prevention and architectural design; Crime prevention; Crime in public housing; Statistics; Public housing; Security measures
Description: "This investigation evaluates the effects of the 'defensible space' strategies undertaken by the Design Department of the New York City Housing Authority over the past 25 years.  Its primary focus has been a survey of six NYCHA developments which have undergone defensible space interventions within the past two decades"--P. 1.
Notes: "December 31, 1997."

"New York City Housing Authority, A/E Service Agreement AE9600050."
Table of contents: title: Executive summary of findings and recommendations; title: The literature of twenty-five years of defensible space design / R. Clarke; title: NYCHA design interventions and crime statistics / J. Fagan, T. Dumanovsky; title: Survey of development residents / M. Sullivan; title: Physical survey : Vladeck Houses, Brownsville Houses, Jacob Riis Houses, Samuel J. Tilden Houses, Andrew Jackson Houses, Claremont Parkway / R. Plunz, M. Sheridan; title: Notes on re-structuring / R. Plunz, M. Sheridan; title: Case study sites; title: Appendix A: Literature survey / R. Clarke; title: Appendix B: Statistical survey / J. Fagan, T. Dumanovsky; title: Appendix C: Protocol for current utilization survey / M. Sullivan; title: Appendix D: Composite maps of resident anxiety / M. Sullivan; title: Appendix E: Sites considered for further study; title: Appendix F: Biographies.