Safety and Adaptation for Urban Public Spaces

There is a growing need to design and/or redesign usable, comfortable, but also safe urban spaces, roads and equipment, in which everyone can feel included. The pursuit of safe conditions, including the various forms of threat and crime, requires the integration of the different existing approaches to achieve effective and lasting results. Urban planning can ensure that spaces dedicated to the community and shared use are transformed into as many common goods, thus satisfying citizens' legitimate aspirations to improve the quality of life, for which safety is important. The objective of this EU-funded project (Next Generation EU) entitled “SeTUP - Security Town through Urban Planning” is that the results of this research will lead to the definition of models that can be implemented in policies, plans and regulations. This work is, in fact, an opportunity for a more careful reflection on the topic in order to identify the key aspects that allow Urban Planning to be oriented towards the environmental prevention of crime risk and the definition of specific actions, possibly to be contemplated in the municipal urban plan, for the adaptation, over time, of urban spaces to security criteria.