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Crime Analysis and Prevention through Urban Planning: New Haven Case

Crime Analysis and Prevention through Urban Planning: New Haven Case

2015-02-05 8:15 AM | Adam Hoskins (Administrator)

This research of New Haven, CT (USA), presented at the 32nd International Crime Prevention Symposium on October 9, 2014, is based on the Space Syntax Theory saying that pedestrian movement strongly correlates with some topological properties of urban spaces, such as integration of spaces, depth etc.

Residential burglaries in New Haven from one, two, three and four family residential houses have been investigated, not taking into account burglaries from apartments. The research has been performed using the segment maps of the city, where the segment is the shortest path which uses the least number of streets (actually the least number of “interjunction” stretches of street) to get to your destination (according to B. Hillier‘s Space Syntax Method).