A Study On Urban Residential Space Planning Based On Crime Prevention

Rampant urban crime problem has become one of the serious social concerns facing the world as urbanization continually accelerates, thereby, building safer cities become the world's appeal. Based on this point, this dissertation explores urban crime problem and its corresponding resolution in the sight of urban planning and design. The thesis makes an analysis of urban crimes, especially community defensible offences relating to property, by implementing the residential space which closely related to our daily life as the contact point. It divides the spatial crime prevention system of residential space into three levels: macro, mid and micro by a review of current research progresses, and makes an initially discussion on crime prevention in residential spaces by urban planning measures after a case study in Haidian District,Beijing.Chapter one is the prologue, in this part, firstly, the social background and significance of the research is put forward. Secondly, the structure of this dissertation is given, which involves the purpose of research, framework and methodology. Then in chapter two, a literature review is carried out, covering the books and articles on the relevant study done by foreign and Chinese scholars. By taking Haidian District,Beijing as an example, chapter three expounds the relationship between the urban residential space and urban crimes. Subsequently, chapter four exposits the fundamentals of crime prevention through urban planning. Thereafter, chapter five brings forward the methods of residential space planning as a crime preventive measure separately in macro, mid and micro levels. Chapter six, namely the last part of this article, sums up this dissertation and discusses the problems lie open to further examination.