ABSTRACT
When the company, Caruso Affiliated, was designing The Grove, an innovative shopping district near Los Angeles' old Farmers Market, they decided they wanted the “best parking garage in Los Angeles.” 1 They recognized the need for extensive redesign of their existing plans, and turned to crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) to solve the traditional problems with garage design and construction. As a result, the garage turned out to be an exemplary design employing many CPTED and conscientious operational components:
Limited access points for pedestrians and cars
Bright walls and ceilings, and colorful décor
Exemplary lighting with metal halite luminaries
Raised ceiling heights
Very large and furnished elevator lobbies on each floor
Moderate but well-distributed camera systems and call boxes
Very long and wide open sight lines
Traffic-oriented entries and exits
Open stairways
Regular security patrols
