The Evolution of Innovative Approaches to Build More Secure and Safer Public Spaces

This presentation will outline and assess a number of trends, tensions and fault-lines that have characterised shifts over time in the design and regulation of safe public spaces across Europe and beyond. We do so to stimulate debate and discussion about the trajectory of learning and the challenges for the future. In doing so, we will draw from the wider Review we are conducting for the IcARUS project.

The following article was written by three researchers from the University of Leeds: Adam Crawford (Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice), Susan Donkin (Research Associate in European Urban Security) and Christine Weirich (Research Assistant in European Urban Security). The University is a partner in the IcARUS (Innovative AppRoaches to Urban Security) project, led by Efus.

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