On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:33:01 -0000, Alain Chiaradia 
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>Policy maker are not waking up to urban design and crime or urban design
>issues in general, the policies are in place since a while. Your remarks
>perhaps denote that the general public is not aware of it yet and need
>to be more demanding.

can you elaborate on that

cheers,
Rui



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>See Safer Places - the Planning System and Crime Prevention published by
>CABE the Home Office and ODPM in 2003
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>See By design, - Urban design in the planning system towards better
>practice published by Cabe, DETR in 2000. 
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>See the UK national policy statement: Planning Policy Statement 1,
>delivering sustainable communities published 2005
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>Para 37. In planning for the achievement of high quality and inclusive
>design, planning authorities
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>should have regard to good practice set out in By Design - Urban design
>in the planning system:
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>towards better practice14; By Design - better places to live15; Safer
>Places - the Planning System
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>and Crime Prevention16; and Planning and Access for Disabled People: A
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>Guide17.
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>See the UK national policy statement: Planning Policy Statement 12,
>Local development frameworks
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>Para 1.13 Well designed development responds well to the local physical,
>social and economic
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>context, being safe, clean, attractive and accessible for all users.
>Local development
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>documents should therefore include policies that set out strategic
>design and access
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>objectives in line with Planning Policy Statement 1 and relevant good
>practice set out
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>in By Design, Safer Places the Planning System and Crime Prevention and
>Planning
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>and Access for Disabled People: A Good Practice Guide.
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>It is not anymore a matter of policy it is a matter of implementation
>processes.
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>Alain Chiaradia GradDipl (AA) Arch dplg
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>Director
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>SPACE SYNTAX 
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>From: Shibu Raman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>Sent: 03 December 2006 15:32
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Designing out crime- Torry talk
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>Hi all
>Did any one saw the politic show today (Sunday 3rd dec). David Davis was
>talking about urban design and crime. He like other policy makers seems
>to be just waking up to fact that design of space may have something to
>do with crime. Great idea in principle, but worryingly he is quoting the
>Oscar Newman stuff (see the transcript below from
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/6193312.stm)
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>Shibu
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>JON SOPEL: It's fine as far as it goes, this idea of designing for
>safety, but is it a radical new idea, isn't it something that everyone
>is going to say, yeah, of course.
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>DAVID DAVIS: It's not new. I mean, it's actually thirty years old.
>What's wrong is that it hasn't actually been taken up with the sort of
>determination and drive that's necessary. What, if you look to some of
>the Bradford examples, and the predecessor to the policeman who was on
>there took me down and street and he said, well on one side of the
>street you've got sixteen or seventeen times the level of burglary, than
>you have on the other side of the street, and none of it is down to
>social factors. It's all down to design.
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>It makes that big a difference, so for certain types of crime and the
>lady, the sociologist, who was talking, was right, we can't deal with
>domestic violence this way but for certain types of crime, burglary,
>mugging, robbery, some street violence, you can actually do a huge
>amount, just take away the opportunity completely and actually give
>people safety on their own streets and safety in their own home which is
>the key.
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>JON SOPEL: So are we putting money in to the wrong things then. I mean
>are we putting, is it a mistake to put money in to extra police
>officers. Should we be putting money in to more fences and all that...
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>DAVID DAVIS: Well the fences is the sort of patch work after the event.
>The best way to do this is when you start. I mean people actually,
>interestingly enough, people recognised thirty years ago, there was a
>man called Oscar Newman, an American Architect, recognised some thirty
>years ago, a lot of the post war estates were designed very badly with
>alleyways, covered walkways, garages or parking areas out of sight, so
>people could vandalise cars and so on.
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>See also the article designing out crime
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/6193304.stm
>The concepts - developed by the architect, Oscar Newman - were
>successfully applied in the 1990's in US cities like St Louis and
>Dayton. It is time we learnt the same lessons here in Britain. 
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