{"id":15213,"date":"2023-10-10T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:51:30","slug":"cpted-and-placemaking-principles-of-design-from-an-integrated-approach-by-landscape-architects-and-security-design-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imegcorp.com\/insights\/blog\/cpted-and-placemaking-principles-of-design-from-an-integrated-approach-by-landscape-architects-and-security-design-consultants\/","title":{"rendered":"CPTED and Placemaking: Integrating landscape architecture and security for safer environments"},"content":{"rendered":"
By John Rinaldi and Ryan Searles<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED, is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring crime through environmental design. It builds on four principles: natural surveillance, territorial reinforcement, natural access control, and maintenance.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Landscape architects and security design consultants can use CPTED principles to help create safer and more secure environments for the built environment, gardens, parks, and other outdoor areas. That doesn\u2019t just mean adding fences, security cameras, and barriers to entrances, though those things may be used in certain projects. Instead, it also means using landscaping to create an attractive setting and meaningful places that deter crime. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Through our project experience, it’s more effective for CPTED to work from the perimeter of a site inward toward the public spaces, plazas, and the building. Design principles can be provided at the edge of a property to address safety throughout the site but support the creativity and design intent of the building and its surroundings. CPTED also helps to improve accessibility for all users throughout the project space. The following are effective design tools that can be used on a project to provide effective placemaking that is practical, useable, and safe.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Natural barriers:<\/span><\/b> Use natural barriers as buffers with trees and shrubs to create an attractive perimeter or shrubs and groundcovers as an edge, which creates a sense of place and privacy within the open space. This can deter criminal activity by creating natural access control and creating territorial reinforcement to distinguish between public and private areas. Landscape maintenance is important over time to ensure that sightlines and natural surveillance are maintained.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unnatural barriers: <\/span><\/b>Fencing, bollards, and retaining walls can act as design elements that function both aesthetically and from a safety perspective.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Lighting: <\/span><\/b>Use lighting to create a sense of safety and security in a public outdoor space. Installing lights along a walking path or around a school playground will provide a better sense of awareness for people to see what is happening around them and extend the space’s useability.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Signage:<\/span><\/b> Install signs that clearly show where people should go and what they should do in a public space. This helps with territorial reinforcement and sets up a sense of safety for users. The signage should also be all-inclusive, including, for example, using tactile ADA Braille signs for the blind and visually impaired. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Wayfinding:<\/span><\/b> Use wayfinding elements such as arrows, maps, and other visual cues to help people navigate the space safely. For example, using different colored walking paths or various pavers and surface treatment techniques can guide people where you want them to go. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n