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Crime free housing

Barry Poyner and Barry Webb

Butterworth-Architecture, 1991

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Note

Includes references: p. 122-123

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Making a correlation between social/environmental factors and crime, this book explores how the layout of towns/cities can be designed to eliminate residential crime. The text is based on a Home Office project on 20th century low-rise housing.

Table of Contents

  • Summary of design requirements
  • residential crime
  • the research studies
  • social and environmental factors
  • car crime
  • burglary
  • theft from garages
  • theft outside the house
  • criminal damage
  • explaining the patterns of crime
  • requirements for crime free housing
  • implications for current practice.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA13552706
  • ISBN
    • 0750612738
  • LCCN
    91205043
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 126 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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