Green Urban Surfaces and Criminality
Keywords:
crime, vegetation, urban, population, violenceAbstract
Prevention and solving of problems caused by violence and crime in city areas are linked with socio-demographic, economic and political structures, which are, among all, physically and visually expressed also as urban green infrastructure. From another aspect, city vegetation has its characteristic and not always balanced correlations with crime and violence, both as a whole and specific. Despite specific properties of city vegetation which can be favourable for criminal activities, as a facilitating factor in planning and execution of crimes, a large number of studies have shown that well-arranged and landscaped city green areas have the potential to reduce and avert violence and crime. Cooperation of city authorities with architects and urban engineers, the police and citizens provides the opportunity for city green areas to realise a role of refinement which shall also reflect on reducing crime.
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