CPTED: Subtle but Powerful Design-Based Security

摘要

Most public spaces rely heavily on public safety professionals, such as our police and fire departments, to serve as the first line of defense against the horror of active shooters. However, now more than ever, builder owners and city planners are looking to design firms to incorporate crime prevention through environmental design, or CPTED for short, as an initial line of defense against public threats. CPTED is a multi-disciplinary approach to design which reduces criminal behavior through subtle and strategic manipulation of the built environment. While it may have once been viewed as something solely required for protecting military and civic buildings in years past, we have seen from the increased mass shootings, bombings and even vehicular assaults, that it has become a necessary design principle to integrate into any building with a public or semi-public use.