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When thinking about territory, Hall categorized space into three genres of design: fixed feature space, semi-fixed feature space, and informal (or dynamic) feature space. Fixed feature space is typically characterized by immovable design. Semi-fixed feature space offers furnishings and boundaries that can be moved with varying degrees of effort. In

formal designers often create the dullest, cheapest, ugliest solutions as a result of limited budgets and a remedial attitude

The vacant-lot greening treatment costs a little more than a dollar per square foot to install and about a nickel per square foot to maintain each year.21 The grass planting takes only an hour and is in the form of a seed mixture of resilient grass applied with leaf blowers. The trees selected for these lots are the heartiest species to survive urb

Richard Buckminster Fuller,

Some key ideas from CPTED include modeling the design of the built environment to maximize surveillance, limit access, and enhance signs of territoriality (i.e., communicate ownership of the area). Surveillance can be maximized in countless ways. Streets can be designed to increase pedestrian and bicycle use. This will mean there are more “eyes upo

Mais le sort de la plupart des mégapoles et capitales, livrées à l’économie libérale, reste sous la domination des promoteurs et des spéculateurs, d’une part, et, d’autre part, de spécialistes (urbanistes, architectes) compartimentés chacun dans son domaine, qui ne perçoivent nullement le caractère multidimensionnel des problèmes urbains et sont in