The Crime Prevention Design Guide

The Crime Prevention Design Guide provides practical, evidence-based strategies for designing buildings and urban spaces to reduce crime. It emphasizes good lighting, natural surveillance (like windows overlooking streets), clear sightlines, and secure physical features to make areas safer and discourage criminal activity. The guide promotes thoughtful planning in areas such as entrances, landscaping, fencing, and community spaces, aiming to create environments that are both functional and less attractive to criminals. Overall, it helps architects, planners, and property managers design spaces that enhance safety without sacrificing aesthetics or usability.