Archinect - News 2024-12-26T15:05:17-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150059332/a-brief-history-of-designing-secure-spaces A brief history of designing secure spaces Alexander Walter 2018-04-10T15:44:00-04:00 >2018-04-10T15:46:11-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/51/51bjnrzh7q767813.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Can design keep you safe from crime? Architects and urbanists have been making that claim since urban crime &mdash; or the threat of it &mdash; reached crisis proportions in the 1960s. [...] But with scant evidence to support those claims, at what cost do we build &ldquo;defensible space&rdquo;? Architectural historian Joy Knoblauch looks back at sixty years of attempts to secure space and asks whether safety lies in the design of the built environment, in our social structures, or in our heads.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>