Second-Generation CPTED
Definition
An extension of first-generation CPTED that adds social cohesion, community culture, connectivity and threshold capacity alongside the original physical strategies.
Related terms
- Access Control
- Design that channels how people enter and move through a space, so that legitimate routes are obvious and illegitimate ones are difficult...
- CPTED
- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. An applied design discipline using natural surveillance (sightlines, lighting), territorial reinforcement (ownership cues), natural access control (barriers,...
- Defensible Space
- Oscar Newman's 1972 concept describing a residential layout that lets residents naturally supervise and feel ownership over the space around their homes.
- Natural Surveillance
- Design that keeps sightlines open so that ordinary occupants can see, and be seen by, people moving through a space, without relying...
- Territorial Reinforcement
- Design cues, such as low fences, signage or landscaping, that mark a space as privately claimed and signal that a stranger's presence...