Environmental factors and urban crime
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Urban Environment planning can prevent abnormal behaviors, crime and felony in urban places by identifying effective local features and environmental conditions, along with other actions, so that the felon would have much less opportunities for committing criminal and unlawful acts in urban areas. This article is part of the outcomes of a study project called “formulation of environmental criteria for preventing transgression in urban areas”. Aimed at identifying the role of environmental factors and formulating the criteria for reducing susceptibility to crime in urban areas, and carried out by the instructions of the Undersecretary urbanism at the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, it was completed in 2006 at the study and research center of architecture and urbanism. In this article, field findings are analyzed using the descriptive method in comparison to the environmental theory of crime prevention and environmental features of safe urban areas
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