ABSTRACT
The second-generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) "seeks to cultivate while building or rebuilding our Urban Areas". There are four second-generation CPTED concepts: social cohesion; connectivity; community culture and threshold capacity. Second-generation CPTED reduces crime motives by dealing with the cultural, social, and emotional needs of people at the specific locales where crime is or may be most acute. Developing and sustaining a sense of community and involvement by the legitimate users of the built environment is the best insurance against social detachment, crime inflation, and occupant apathy. Second-generation CPTED seizes on the concept of social ecology. Although first-generation CPTED works to minimize crime opportunities through design, second-generation CPTED establishes balanced land uses and social stabilizers. Connectivity means the neighborhood has positive relations and influence with external agencies such as government funding sources.
