ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the incorporation of place-based crime prevention theory and practice into emerging anti-terrorist planning and design strategies in the United States. While many nations have experienced terrorism, we concentrate on the United States by virtue of worldwide repercussions resulting from the cataclysmic attacks of 9/11, and the sheer immensity of response, which touches in one way or another virtually every discipline, profession and public policy across the globe (Eisinger, 2004). In so doing, the chapter addresses the problems of defining terrorism and delineates differences between anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism, spelling out elements of each. The long history of terrorism is briefly discussed, with a special emphasis on place-based terrorist attacks. Four major planning-and urban design-related anti-terrorist theories and orientations are described, involving ‘target shrinking’, ‘scatter-gun’, ‘Let Cities be Cities’ and ‘target hardening’ approaches, and each theory is critiqued relative to fundamental urban quality of life and security design issues. Commonalities and conflicts between placebased crime prevention and anti-terrorist planning and design are explored, as well as suggestions as to whether or not the differences can be reconciled.
