By Kyle Eltherington and Barbara Spyropoulos – CPTED Canada Board Members CPTED – Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – is not just about traditional crime prevention. The application of its principles to other design scenarios can only improve the final product. With CPTED practitioners coming from many diverse backgrounds, CPTED is used to breaking down […]
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Tunnel Vision: CPTED In Road Design – Part 1 of 3
By Kyle Eltherington and Barbara Spyropoulos – CPTED Canada Board Members While CPTED – Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – gives the sometimes-unfortunate impression that it is concerned only with Crime Prevention, its principles can be applied to many areas of physical spaces. CPTED Space Assessments can help a plethora of disciplines do a better […]
Using CPTED for Relational Security
By Sameen Ashraf, B.Sc, LL.B, M.Sc. Community is a blanket, sewn together by conceptual nodes, with communication linking to form the fabric of society. The quality, integrity, and frequency of communication is therefore what determines how cohesive and resilient a society is. Collaboration facilitates innovation, mutual understanding, and thus, through individual needs being represented, collaboration […]
Orphaned Spaces
By Barbara Spyropoulos Orphaned spaces: those pesky bits of land leftover when an area is divided into lots. Sometimes adjacent to residential lots, other times buffers between roadways or other purposed sites, but almost always eventually neglected. Architectural drawings often show them lush with ornamental plantings but in reality, the vegetation is, in due course, […]
An Immersive Experience through Community Residencies
The idea came to me several years ago because of some close relationships with artists and a few of them who did residencies in other places. I began to think about how the idea might work in my field of work – CPTED and our built environment. And so, the initial cast was formed. To […]