BUILDING THE SAFE CITY PLANNING CONCEPT : AN ANALYSIS OF PRECEDING STUDIES
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v75.5241Keywords:
Fear of crime, safe city, safe city planning, crime activitiesAbstract
The upsetting number of crime occurring in the cities evokes the fear of crime among the civilians. In order to provide a good quality of living environment, a safe city planning must be implemented. To achieve this, several safe city concepts are reviewed. This paper aim to study several safe city concepts done by other researchers. In order to search for the best safe city concepts, a qualitative method research which involves content analysis is the most suitable approach to be employed in this study. This research will develop a new safe city conceptual framework based on the synergy of the previous studies. It is noted that the main concept of safe city planning are the activities and proposition of land use planning, identification of hot spot crime areas, improvement of physical environment and public transport system and appropriate surveillance.Â
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