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- From: sod@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Sean M O Donnell)
- Newsgroups: alt.architecture
- Subject: Re: Chicago cul-de-sacs
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 04:44:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- From article <churayj-240193115418@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu>, by churayj@yalevm.edu (raymond Chung):
- > Hello.
- >
- > Have you heard about Mayor Daley's plan to section off as much of Chicago
- > as he can in order to stem crime? He wants to put up fences or concrete
- > barriers at the ends of roads to corner criminals and to stop drive-by
- > shootings, etc. Other cities have done similar things in certain areas, but
- > the Chicago plan is to cordon off the entire city into little chunks.
- >
- > Now my question is this, is the future of urban design going to be shaped
- > by the pressures of crime? (Or is it already, and I'm just too much an
- > amateur to know that?)
-
- I would assume that security has always been an issue. Oscar Newman's book
- _Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Urban Design_ was written in
- 1972, so this topic isn't that new. Daley's plan, what little that I know
- about it, sounds like a solution that might have been cooked up in the 1950's
- though. Killing off traffic will probably increase the possibility for
- crime and it will probably force the closure of a lot of businesses that
- rely on through traffic, resulting in... more crime.
-
- >
-