Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur

Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur

Recently, Malaysia has adopted the “Safe city program”, which is focused towards creating violence and crime free cities. To achieve this, it is important to address crimes and disorder in residential areas. So far studies identified that changes in built environment and modifications in space desi...

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Main Authors: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) and University Publication Centre (UPENA), UiTM 2010
Subjects:
NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
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spelling iium-31202012-06-13T02:58:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3120/ Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying Recently, Malaysia has adopted the “Safe city program”, which is focused towards creating violence and crime free cities. To achieve this, it is important to address crimes and disorder in residential areas. So far studies identified that changes in built environment and modifications in space design can impact residents and offenders’ perceptions of criminality. Various CPTED measures are employed to create defensible space. This paper examines the effect of physical design on the occurrences of crime in Taman Melati residential area of Kuala Lumpur City and tests the effects of the built environment on the possibility of crime reduction through physical planning measures. Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) and University Publication Centre (UPENA), UiTM 2010-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3120/1/CRIME.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul and Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan (2010) Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur. Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies, 1 (3). pp. 25-36. ISSN 1394-0384 http://fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=77
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topic NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
spellingShingle NA9000 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying
Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan
Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
description Recently, Malaysia has adopted the “Safe city program”, which is focused towards creating violence and crime free cities. To achieve this, it is important to address crimes and disorder in residential areas. So far studies identified that changes in built environment and modifications in space design can impact residents and offenders’ perceptions of criminality. Various CPTED measures are employed to create defensible space. This paper examines the effect of physical design on the occurrences of crime in Taman Melati residential area of Kuala Lumpur City and tests the effects of the built environment on the possibility of crime reduction through physical planning measures.
format Article
author Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan
author_facet Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Elsawahli, Hanan Mohamed Hassan
author_sort Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
title Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
title_short Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
title_full Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
title_fullStr Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
title_full_unstemmed Crime and housing in Malaysia: case study of Taman Melati terrace housing in Kuala Lumpur
title_sort crime and housing in malaysia: case study of taman melati terrace housing in kuala lumpur
publisher Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) and University Publication Centre (UPENA), UiTM
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3120/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3120/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3120/1/CRIME.pdf
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