• The defensible space theory of architect and city planner Oscar Newman encompasses ideas about crime prevention and neighborhood safety. Newman argues...
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  • Defensible space may refer to: Defensible space theory, a concept of influencing negative social behavior through architectural and urban design Defensible...
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    flee the neighborhood. Oscar Newman introduced defensible space theory in his 1972 book Defensible Space. He argued that although police work is crucial...
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  • Canadian-born American architect and researcher most known for his defensible space theory, a precursor to crime prevention through environmental design....
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  • of the defensible space theory, to work with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development on the housing plan. Newman's theories emphasized...
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    implementation of defensible space guidelines in the 1970s, most implementations of CPTED as of 2004 were based solely upon the theory that the proper design...
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    ISBN 9780307961907. Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) Defensible space theory Urban vitality "Jane Jacobs' Radical Legacy". Peter Dreier. Summer...
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    all designed to instill terror in those who saw it. Brutalism Defensible space theory Panopticon Hostile architecture Blondel, Jacques-François (1771–77)...
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    the idea through a series of studies that would culminate in his defensible space theory. The work of Jacobs and Newman would go on to affect American housing...
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    Similarly, a 1972 ground-breaking study by Oscar Newman on a Defensible Space Theory described ways to improve the social environment and security of...
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  • (architect) (1935–2004), architect and city planner known for his defensible space theory Oscar W. Newman (1867–1928), jurist in Ohio, United States This...
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    makes the plugs and cables behave as though they are symmetric. Defensible space theory Fail-safe Idiot-proof Inherent safety Poka-yoke Usability testing...
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  • crime The opportunity theory has direct application to crime prevention. Concepts like problem-oriented policing, defensible space architecture, crime prevention...
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  • for self-policing. Architect Oscar Newman created the concept of "defensible space", developed further by criminologist C. Ray Jeffery, who coined the...
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  • methods are used to reduce opportunity: problem-oriented policing defensible space architecture situational crime prevention All of these methods are...
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  • abstract theory, the claim that economics, ecology, politics and culture can be distinguished as central domains of social practice has to be defensible at...
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  • more individual space and better, more beautiful design in place of functionalism.[citation needed] Oscar Newman's defensible space theory cites the modernist...
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  • Creating Defensible Space. He notes the stark difference between private space, which is clearly defined as personal territory, and the public space in this...
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    Sun. The Lubavitcher Rebbe also explained that geocentrism is defensible based on the theory of relativity. While geocentrism is important in Maimonides'...
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  • the context of records destruction, where it is known as "defensible disposition" or "defensible destruction", and helps an organization explicitly justify...
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    interaction and involvement was part of a movement based on the Defensible space theory. Using this approach, Sears designed Alexandra Park which, in the...
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    such as multipole moments, energies and forces, to be partitioned in a defensible and consistent manner to individual atoms within molecules. Both the Bader...
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  • Prolongation (category Post-tonal music theory)
    In music theory, prolongation is the process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is considered to govern spans of music...
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    interpreters, nevertheless, consider that Kant was trying to mark off defensible from indefensible Christian belief. Regarding Kant's conception of religion...
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  • Standard – death penalty – deconstructionist theories – decriminalization – defense of justification – defensible space – detective – deterrence – deterrence...
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    that all questions use the same Likert scale and that the scale is a defensible approximation to an interval scale, in which case the central limit theorem...
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  • into substance, space, and time, Kant placed the mind as part of the causal constellation of experience and thereby found Newton's theory of motion universally...
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  • caught between insisting on the V.C. [Verifiability Criterion]—but for no defensible reason—or admitting that the V.C. requires a background language, etc...
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  • properties: desirable to its proponent but only lightly defensible. The Motte is the defensible but undesired position to which one retreats when hard...
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    would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop...
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