Safer Design and the Public Environment
Content
Community safety and attractive urban environments are the result of well-designed places, good management and community involvement. The challenge for those involved in creating the places where we live, work and play is to design spaces that ensure we are safe and feel safe. To do this, planners and designers need to achieve physically well-connected neighbourhoods, well defined public and private spaces and improved casual surveillance of public places.
Based on the Safer Design Guidelines for Victoria - an initiative of Melbourne 2030, this course examines State planning policy objectives and design principles that will improve the design and built form of development and public spaces. It will provide practical design suggestions to improve the safety of the built environment to minimise the opportunity for crime, and promote safe, accessible and liveable places that encourage community participation.
Designed for
Statutory and strategic planners, architects/designers, landscape architects, place managers, property developers, transportation planners, traffic engineers and land surveyors.
Learning outcomes
- Greater awareness of the principles and methods of urban design for safety in the built environment and minimising the opportunity for crime
- Ability to apply principles to design and assess public space development
- Consider the implications of design decisions on safety in public spaces.
Senior urban designers with the Urban Design Unit, DPCD have extensive experience in delivering training that improves the skills and expertise of planning and design professionals.
| Date: | Wednesday 18 November 2009 |
| Venue: | Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne |
| Time: | 10.00am – 3.00pm (lunch provided) |
| Cost: | $160.00 (inc. GST) |
| PD Points: | 4 |
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