Safe Cities
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Safe Cities
Author: Gerda R. Wekerle
language: en
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Release Date: 1995
Ordinary people are natural experts on safety in their own communities. The key to creating a city where people feel safe is to give citizens input into developing safer environments for themselves. This book offers a set of easy-to-follow guidelines - well illustrated with photos - that can be used to improve urban safety. It also includes success stories on the ways that ordinary people, working in partnership with local governments and agencies have taken the initiative to fight back against violent crime in public housing, transit, parks and open places, underground parking, schools, houses and neighbourhoods.
Tracking Progress Towards Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements
This synthesis report acknowledges the many existing and cross-cutting opportunities to achieve development goals through the transformative force that urbanization represents. It also discusses the elaboration of targets, baselines and overall progress for selected indicators, placing special emphasis on partnership arrangement and opportunities for financing and scaling up activities and programmes. The report presents fresh data and new findings that help us understand our urban transitions and trends in these early years of the SDGs.
Quality of Life in Cities
Individual and corporate decisions about where to locate have a dramatic impact on the character and health of towns and cities. What are the factors influencing these decisions and can they be measured? This book provides the reader with both a detailed review of the subject and a list of key references for further reading. Focusing on Britain, America, and Europe, it tracks current thinking and research and addresses a selection of key factors governing how people perceive quality of life. Divided into two parts, section one examines: the debate about what constitutes quality of life, how to measure the quality of life, and the factors determining quality of life as experienced by individuals. Section two focuses on the issues and policy implications behind each of the following key local factors: safety and security, adequate and affordable shelter, a well planned "user-friendly" and humane place to live in, a safe and healthy environment, and public services which help sustain all these elements.
