ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses to what extent crime prevention through urban planning can benefit from the discourse about urban resilience. Over the past two decades, the prevention of crime has evolved to a central element of local security policy and crime control. The basis for including the aspects of urban planning efforts in the analysis of criminal opportunities is the defensible space approach, in which the architectural design from housing and housing developments is interwoven with aspects of security. Ecological responsibility and sustainable economic activity should therefore find their way into urban crime prevention. While urban crime prevention has only just discovered the topic of sustainability, outside of crime policy, another change of paradigm seems to become apparent insofar that the thought of sustainability is more and more substituted by the concept of resilience. Urban resilience is seen as an answer to severely damaging events. Correspondingly, the concept is currently cyclically applied in the field of civil defence and disaster management.
