Designing out crime

The built environment can be designed to prevent crime. Discusses how crime can be designed out of residential areas, by providing defensible space, high visibility policing and changing road layouts. The Meadowell Estate is used as an example. The value of consulting residents in the process of designing out crime is considered. A number of specific strategies which have been taken to reduce the possibility of crime - the provision of defensible space and the layout of roads for better surveillance - are outlined.