Safe cities

Ordinary people are natural experts on safety in their own communities, write Gerda Wekerle and Carolyn Whitzman in this important new book. The key to creating a city where people feel safe, they say, is to give citizens input into developing safer environments for themselves. Safe Cities offers a set of easy-to-follow guidelines that can be utilized by planners, architects, developers, and police departments to improve urban safety. It includes actual success stories of the ways in which ordinary people, working in partnership with local governments and government agencies, have taken the…