Streets and physical layouts can be inherent in a sustainable city by emphasizing the use of spac... more Streets and physical layouts can be inherent in a sustainable city by emphasizing the use of space with planned strategies by promoting the movement of people and social behaviors for enhancing an economic structure. An analysis of the space layout is beneficial for defining the urban areas that can affect street behavior. A GIS incorporated with a space syntax can help to propagate the effectiveness of a spatial analysis in a study on urban spaces. The integration of the computational pieces of both a GIS analytical tool and space syntax parameters will stimulate research oriented urban systems and spatial morphologies combined with a spatial database. However, the development of livability can be affected by a set of parameters that define the used space. Thus, this paper was aimed at examining the space syntax parameters for space visualization to evaluate street behavior using the GIS processing and space syntax methods. In this study, a spatial analysis was used to generate spa...
The physical design of features and environment will stimulate a safe and sustainable development... more The physical design of features and environment will stimulate a safe and sustainable development of the neighbourhood. Despite possessing a proper form, a private space which does not control and keep could even raise fear and crime incident. Therefore, this study planned to analyse the fear, perception and potential feature that caused the crime event in neighbourhoods. Three years of burglary data got from the Royal Malaysia Police helped to explain the crime trend and pattern. Besides, a statistical analysis conducted to examine the fear level and perception towards crime incident using a set of questionnaires. Next, the potential features and visibility level examined in the unit of a house that has experienced the burglary event. The purpose is to find any element that can affect crime event. Results prove that actual crime data not associated with fear and perception of the crime. Besides, accessibility, visibility and crime pattern were the key elements to consider for crime...
The distribution of crime is not uniform across either time or space and believed influenced by e... more The distribution of crime is not uniform across either time or space and believed influenced by environmental design. This study examines the layout and identifies the risky space in a residential area of Kuala Lumpur. Four space syntax parameters and three years of burglary data were analysed across two neighbourhoods. The correlation between the burglary rate and the parameter value is carried out to identify the relationship. Results show a significant relationship between visibility parameter and burglary rate while there were similarities temporal pattern for both study areas. Results will help planners and authorities to prevent crime through environmental design.
ABSTRACT Crime studies are often performed in order to reduce the rate of crime in Malaysia. Most... more ABSTRACT Crime studies are often performed in order to reduce the rate of crime in Malaysia. Most research on crime studies focus on social factor and it is often being a main reason of having burglary in residential area however, few take the responsibility of spatial layout pattern against crime. The layout of housing plays an important role to influence the incidence of crime and has to be considered. This research study proposes to examine the connectivity between housing layout in urban area and crime activity of burglary using GIS as tools of analysis. Study was conducted in several types of residential areas in Shah Alam Selangor and selected due to the crime rate report in order to distinguish all. The characteristics of housing layout such as open space, degree of road accessibility, environmental characteristics, and housing facilities are the main assessment in the course of this study. The result found that houses which faces along the main road, near the entrance of the...
Crime rate of burglary at residential areas give concern to the people in terms of their safety a... more Crime rate of burglary at residential areas give concern to the people in terms of their safety and property. Various aspect such as accessibility of housing layout and spaces should be seen as a factor of growth this crime. Thus, urban design theories should be used as a key to combating this menace. This study examines the relationship between spatial configurations of urban housing layout and spatial distribution of residential burglary, based on crime report provided by the police. Main focus is specifically to residential area and in comparative study of three housing estates, located in the Klang Valley metropolitan. Using geospatial techniques, the distribution of crime and accessibility are necessary to show the both relationship. While focusing on site specific and situational features of places, the output of research will provide empirical evidence for scepticism on the idea of configurationally accessibility by Bill Hillier, theory of how people relate to space in built ...
Streets and physical layouts can be inherent in a sustainable city by emphasizing the use of spac... more Streets and physical layouts can be inherent in a sustainable city by emphasizing the use of space with planned strategies by promoting the movement of people and social behaviors for enhancing an economic structure. An analysis of the space layout is beneficial for defining the urban areas that can affect street behavior. A GIS incorporated with a space syntax can help to propagate the effectiveness of a spatial analysis in a study on urban spaces. The integration of the computational pieces of both a GIS analytical tool and space syntax parameters will stimulate research oriented urban systems and spatial morphologies combined with a spatial database. However, the development of livability can be affected by a set of parameters that define the used space. Thus, this paper was aimed at examining the space syntax parameters for space visualization to evaluate street behavior using the GIS processing and space syntax methods. In this study, a spatial analysis was used to generate spa...
The physical design of features and environment will stimulate a safe and sustainable development... more The physical design of features and environment will stimulate a safe and sustainable development of the neighbourhood. Despite possessing a proper form, a private space which does not control and keep could even raise fear and crime incident. Therefore, this study planned to analyse the fear, perception and potential feature that caused the crime event in neighbourhoods. Three years of burglary data got from the Royal Malaysia Police helped to explain the crime trend and pattern. Besides, a statistical analysis conducted to examine the fear level and perception towards crime incident using a set of questionnaires. Next, the potential features and visibility level examined in the unit of a house that has experienced the burglary event. The purpose is to find any element that can affect crime event. Results prove that actual crime data not associated with fear and perception of the crime. Besides, accessibility, visibility and crime pattern were the key elements to consider for crime...
The distribution of crime is not uniform across either time or space and believed influenced by e... more The distribution of crime is not uniform across either time or space and believed influenced by environmental design. This study examines the layout and identifies the risky space in a residential area of Kuala Lumpur. Four space syntax parameters and three years of burglary data were analysed across two neighbourhoods. The correlation between the burglary rate and the parameter value is carried out to identify the relationship. Results show a significant relationship between visibility parameter and burglary rate while there were similarities temporal pattern for both study areas. Results will help planners and authorities to prevent crime through environmental design.
ABSTRACT Crime studies are often performed in order to reduce the rate of crime in Malaysia. Most... more ABSTRACT Crime studies are often performed in order to reduce the rate of crime in Malaysia. Most research on crime studies focus on social factor and it is often being a main reason of having burglary in residential area however, few take the responsibility of spatial layout pattern against crime. The layout of housing plays an important role to influence the incidence of crime and has to be considered. This research study proposes to examine the connectivity between housing layout in urban area and crime activity of burglary using GIS as tools of analysis. Study was conducted in several types of residential areas in Shah Alam Selangor and selected due to the crime rate report in order to distinguish all. The characteristics of housing layout such as open space, degree of road accessibility, environmental characteristics, and housing facilities are the main assessment in the course of this study. The result found that houses which faces along the main road, near the entrance of the...
Crime rate of burglary at residential areas give concern to the people in terms of their safety a... more Crime rate of burglary at residential areas give concern to the people in terms of their safety and property. Various aspect such as accessibility of housing layout and spaces should be seen as a factor of growth this crime. Thus, urban design theories should be used as a key to combating this menace. This study examines the relationship between spatial configurations of urban housing layout and spatial distribution of residential burglary, based on crime report provided by the police. Main focus is specifically to residential area and in comparative study of three housing estates, located in the Klang Valley metropolitan. Using geospatial techniques, the distribution of crime and accessibility are necessary to show the both relationship. While focusing on site specific and situational features of places, the output of research will provide empirical evidence for scepticism on the idea of configurationally accessibility by Bill Hillier, theory of how people relate to space in built ...
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