TY - JOUR AU - Nes, Akkelies van AU - López, Manuel AU - de Bonth, Laura AU - Verhagen, Dirk AU - Waaijer, Simone PY - 2016/09/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Spatial tools for diagnosing the degree of safety and liveability, and to regenerate urban areas in the Netherlands JF - Research in Urbanism Series JA - RiUS VL - 4 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.7480/rius.4.853 UR - https://rius.ac/index.php/rius/article/view/115 SP - 139-156 AB - <p>This contribution describes the tool Social Safe Urban Design (SSUD), seen together with socio-spatial and linguistic challenges when applying space syntax in the regenerating of problem urban areas. The Space Syntax jargon is technical and needs to be translated into a language understandable and acceptable to stakeholders who are responsible for the implementation of improvement strategies acceptable for the users of a neighbourhood. Moreover, the degree of public-private interface between buildings and streets needs to be incorporated in the Space Syntax analyses. As it turns out from spatial analyses and crime registrations, there is a correlation between crime and anti-social behaviour and the spatial layout of built environments in the investigated eight pilot cases. Simultaneously, there is also a challenge to come up with locally and globally functioning spatial solutions for reducing opportunities for crime and anti-social behaviour for the neighbourhoods. Proposed solutions for three of these neighbourhoods are presented in this contribution.</p> ER -