Crime in relation to urban design. Case study: The Greater Cairo Region

• Main Authors: Heba Adel, Mohamed Salheen, Randa A. Mahmoud
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
• Series: Ain Shams Engineering Journal
• Subjects: Crime occurrence; Built environment; Urban circumstances
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447915001379

Crime is a part of any social system and known to human communities since its origins. It differs from community to another, even within one community it doesn’t occur equally in all places and nor by the same way. It is also concentrated in some places more than others, sometimes increases, sometimes decreases, etc. Previous researches have proved that crime rate has significant correlation with different social factors: education levels, poverty rates and lack of social organization, while others have drawn the attention to its relation with the built environment. They proposed that crime occurs in places where both opportunities and criminals are available. The role of this paper is to identify urban circumstances related to crime occurrence within the Greater Cairo Region, and to propose different ways to reduce these crimes. Consecutively, agglomeration’s main districts were scrutinized according to social analysis, street-network pattern and land-use.