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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Oscar Newman (architect) (section Theory)
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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Crime of opportunity (section Routine activity theory)
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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Interior design psychology (section Defensible space)
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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Geocentrism (redirect from Geocentric theory)
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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Records management (section Defensible solutions)
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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Immanuel Kant (section Kant's theory of judgment)
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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Deductive-nomological model (redirect from Subsumption theory)
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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Philosophy of science (redirect from Science theory)
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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