A mass shooting scenario changes the function of every object in the built environment. [...]
The buildings themselves, the fabric of the city, ends up not mattering so much. In fact, sometimes it becomes a kind of enemy. [...]
Americans aren’t going to rebuild their cities to accommodate the possibility of violence. The people who protect the people in those cities will just have to learn to see them differently.
— wired.com
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"In other words, Americans aren’t going to rebuild their cities to accommodate the possibility of violence. The people who protect the people in those cities will just have to learn to see them differently."
Poor doors on a secondary building facade, cul de sacs, and gated communities counter the idea that design is potentially helpless in preventing crime, and are ways in which buildings, neighborhoods and cites have been designed to be preventative by anticipating a concern.
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