Check list

Cover sheet

Title page

Certificate

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of contents, List of tables, List of figures

Introduction

The body of the report (split into chapters)

Conclusion (and recommendations if applicable)

References / Bibliography

Glossary (if needed)

Appendices
ARCHITECTURE IN CRIME CONTROL

Dissertation Report
Submitted by

ARSHA SAHAJAKUMAR

in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DEGREE

DC College of Architecture & Design

DCSMAT, Pullikkanam
Vagamon – 685 503
 May 2019

DISSERTATION CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Dissertation Report entitled "ARCHITECTURE IN CRIME

CONTROL" submitted by ARSHA SAHAJAKUMAR to the Department of Architecture, DC

School of Architecture and Design, Vagamon is a bonafide record of research work carried out by

him/her under my supervision. The contents of this report, in full or in parts, have not been submitted

to any other Institute or University.

Vagamon Ar. (Prof.) Deepak V

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 Ar. (Prof.) Deepak V.

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DC School of Architecture & Design
Pullikkanam, Vagamon.

Acknowledgement

I would like to record my grateful thanks to Almighty God, by whose

grace I could complete this.
I express my sincere and unbounded gratitude to my dissertation
guide
Ar. Nizyamol N , for her timely guidance and patience shown to go
through the various phase of this dissertation.
I thank our dissertation coordinator Ar. Deepak V, for his support
and guidance.
I thank my beloved family for their unconditional love, support and
patience.
I would also like to thank all my friends for their continuous support
and feedback.
 Ar. NizyaMol Arsha Sahajakumar

Architecture in Crime Control

Abstract
Crime is influenced by multiplicity of factors such as economic, social and governmental as well
as physical elements. Safety and security are basic human needs. Crime control though architecture
has been one of the most under explored forms to safety and security. The in depth study of the
relationship of Architecture and crime control maybe subjected to various indefinites and much
remains unexplored. The study shows how additional attention in the pre-design stages of planning
can reduce criminal activity.

Crimes can be solved at a planning stage. The solutions to various crimes committed over a period
of time and type of place can be studied and avoided at the planning stage to a certain extend. The
study will lead to the guidelines that must be followed to execute and develop a safe environment.
Understanding the relationship between crime and architecture is important as it becomes
increasingly clear that law-enforcement methods are, at best, partially effective in the fight against
crime. Advancements in architecture and evolution of design has overcome crimes with an analogy
hence crime control though architecture seeks to provide an account of effective crime control that
focuses more on architecture, and less on conventional methods of law enforcement.
 Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1
Introduction 1
1. Introduction
2. Aim
3. Objective
4. Methodology
5. Scope and Limitation
6. Introduction 1
 1.1 1st level sub heading 1
1.1.1 2nd level sub heading 1

Chapter 1
Introduction
• INTRODUCTION

• Introduction

The subject background and the need of the study is to analyze importance of Architecture in
crime control and its relevance to safety and security while exploring its potential for the same.
The relationship of architecture and crime are inter related, the in depth of study the same
allows helps in crime control but also helps in Urbanization and development which is a part
of the future.

Crime control secures the future of development, enhances study and planning of future.
• Aim
Conduct an in-depth analysis on the significance of safety and security in design, to set
guidelines and principles that are to be followed in design for its function over time.

• Objective
Study of Crime prevention through Architectural spaces of built environments – Interior and
exterior.

Study of CPTED – crime prevention through Environmental design.

Brief acknowledgement of various factors such as crimes and criminology.

Study of elements of visual connectivity, lighting, zoning, placing and orientation of build
land, volumetric analysis, permeability of surrounding.

• Methodology
Need for study – INTRODUCTION

Research question

 Relationship of architecture and crime?

 What is crime?
 Criminology
 How and where are crimes committed?

Case study

 Literature case study

 Factors of safety through architecture

CONCLUSION - Prevention of crimes

 Design failures and limitations

 Theories
  Principles
 Guidelines

• Scope and limitations

Design strategies, theories and concepts to be executed during the initial stages of planning of
housing projects.

Identify tradition design failures that may be the cause of crime adaptions.

The study can be only limited region as the crimes committed, the mannerism of crimes, etc.
may vary from place to place

It brings about a limitation to geographical substitution, offenses may simply be displaced to

those locations with less architectural protections. If so, architecture is not necessarily
reducing crime, it is shifting it.
 Chapter 2

What is crime?
• Understanding crime control and Architecture

Through a focused study it is possible to conclude that architecture and crime are inter
related. The manipulation to environmental and design factors can be established to prevent
crime and by manipulating the design and placement of many simple elements such as
streetlights, park benches orientation and doors.

• crimes

The study categories crime into divisions of crimes committed in two spaces – Interior spaces
and Exterior spaces.

The crimes committed span out as robbery, theft, rape, violence. The crimes listed inside
maybe fewer in number but are subjected to crimes listed as serious offences. Whereas, the
crimes focused only on exterior space are more and

 Robbery

Robber defines as crimes committed through taking or attempting to take anything of value
by force, threat or force, or by putting victim in fear.

 Theft

The act of crime committed through stealing.

 Rape and Assault

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual
penetration carried out against a person without a person’s consent; make a physical attack
on.

 Harassment

Aggressive pressure or intimidation.

 Violence
 Violence can be a serious offence that can be mainly listed as crimes committed in exterior
spaces maybe span out from petty theft to serious offence such as an attack to cause
destruction.

 Vandalism

Action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.

• Crime pattern

Local crime patterns can tell us much about how people interact with their physical
environment, producing more crime opportunity or less. Crime pattern theory, a central
component of environmental criminology, considers how people and things involved in
crime move about in space and time. Fitting well with the routine activity theory, this theory
has three main concepts: nodes, paths, and edges.

 Nodes

Is a term from transportation, refers to where people travel to and fro. Such places not only
can generate crime within, but also nearby. For example a tough bar may generate more
crime outside the premises than inside. Thus the word “node” conveys a sense of movement
and hence carries extra meaning about crime opportunities. Each offender searches for crime
targets around personal activity nodes (such as home, school and entertainment area) and the
paths among them.

 Paths

In addition, the paths that people take in their everyday activities are closely related to where
they fall victim to crime. This is why crime pattern theory pays so much attention to the
geographical distribution of crime and the daily rhythm of activity.
 Edges

The third concept of crime pattern theory, edges, refers to the boundaries of areas where
people live, work, shop or seek entertainment. Some crimes are more likely to occur at
the edges – such as racial attacks, robberies, or shoplifting – because people from
different neighbourhoods who do not know each other come together at edges. The
distinction between insiders and outsiders helps underscore the importance of edges,
since insiders usually commit crimes closer to their own neighbourhoods, while outsiders
find it safer to offend at the edges, then to retreat to their own areas. Most importantly,
crime pattern theorists and other environmental criminologists have shown that the
design and management of town, city, and business areas can produce major shifts in
crime rates. For example, it is possible to reduce crime by calming traffic and orienting
windows so people can better supervise their own streets
Figure 1: Conceptual relationship between social disparity, environmental conditions,
architecture, urban planning and design, and urban management, built responses to crime,
crimes and fear of crimes and the opportunities for crime.
 Chapter 3
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
• Mikocheni B

This chapter presents the findings from one of the case study area namely Mikocheni B. The
historical development of the area is presented before the existing housing and environmental
conditions are presented. This is followed by a discussion on the findings from the
interviews, observations and documentary analysis.

• History of Mikocheni B

Mikocheni neighbourhood is among the settlements developed in 1970’s under the National
Sites and Services Project in Dar es Salaam (Kironde, 1994:37-380). The settlement is located
in Kinondoni Municipality approximately 7 kilometres from the city centre. The
neighbourhood is accessed from the city centre via Old Bagamoyo Road and Ally Hassan
Mwinyi Road. The area can also be reached via Mwenge on Ally Hassan Mwinyi Road. The
settlement is surrounded by industrial as well as institutional land. Initially the settlement was
a farmland and was inhabited by migrants from the south of Tanzania, especially Makonde
who used to grow paddy and cassava as food crops. In 1974, the area was declared a planning
area, under the National Sites and Services Project, which was funded by IDA Credit of the
World Bank. It was the first phase of the projects that were implemented in Dar es Salaam,
Mwanza and Mbeya. A total of 15,000 plots were developed as well as roads, water supply,
electricity, schools, dispensaries and market. The plots were intended for the people whose
income level did not exceed Tsh.1000 per month.

According to the Sites and Services project, Mikocheni Housing Area was divided into two areas
namely Mikocheni A and Mikocheni B. Mikocheni A, was planned as a medium density area
with larger plot sizes compared to those in Mikocheni B. It is mostly an area for middle and
high-income groups. The area has developed into one of the high quality residential areas of Dar
es Salaam, second to Oyster Bay, Masaki and Regent Estates. With big and modern houses of
single and double storeys, the area is bordering Regent Estates to the east, an institutional area to
the south on Ally Hassan Mwinyi Road, Mikocheni B to the west and the Msasani and the Indian
Ocean to the north. Kironde echoes this when he says: “The three areas of Sinza, Kijitonyama
and Mikocheni have sorted themselves out with Mikocheni coming out as a high-class residential
area with expensive houses some of which are to let to expatriates. This is partly because of
Mikocheni’s location by the Ocean and partly a result of deliberate policy that subdivided the
area into a comparatively high proportion of medium sized plots” (Kironde, 1995: 393).
Mikocheni B is on the west of Mikocheni A and was initially planned as a high-density area to
accommodate low-income households (see Fig. 5.1). The plots are therefore smaller compared to
those in Mikocheni A. The area is bordered by institutional and industrial area to the south and
west, the Indian Ocean to the North and of Mikocheni A to the east. It is easily accessed from
Mwenge by a road off Ally Hassan Mwinyi Road and also from Old Bagamoyo Road. A big
informal housing area exists northwest of Mikocheni B that developed next to the Lugalo
Military Camp and the defunct Tanganyika Parkers factory at Kawe. Middle-income and high-
income households live in Mikocheni B, though there are also few low-income people. It appears
that middle and high-income households including business people have bought most of the low-
income people who were initially the intended beneficiaries. Overall, the area is not very
different from Mikocheni A.
Figure 1: An aerial view of part of Mikocheni B housing area (shown in Fig 5.1), taken in 2005. A
few changes in the configuration of road network have occurred in comparison to the initial plan in
Fig.5.1. (Source: Ministry of Lands Housing and Human Settlement Planning. Surveys and
Mapping Division,)
• Housing and Environmental Conditions

As intimated earlier, most of the houses in Mikocheni B are single-family houses of high
standard that show main characteristics of a high standard area. Almost all houses are owner-
occupied or rented out to a single family. They are definitely not for the low-income bracket
although you can also see the houses belonging to this cadre of residents. Many of them are
bungalows on medium sized plots, built by modern and permanent building materials and
cement roofing tiles or the harvel tiles to most of them. Some have concrete flat roofs and a
substantial number are covered with iron and aluminum roofing sheets. Almost all houses are
fenced with a range of different fences of different designs and materials. Very few are still
fenced with plant hedges (michongoma – “Tanganyika thorn”) in combination with wire
fences. Open or ventilated fences that combine masonry blocks and steel bars enclose a few
more; while others are surrounded by masonry wall fences. In most cases, the full height
measures about three metres. In some cases, a combination of solid wall at the bottom and
ventilated blocks at the top is used. In addition most wall fences in the area are topped at full
height with sharp iron spikes, razor wire, electric wire or broken glass so as to forestall
climbing

Figure 2: A fence designed and built to allow communication between the house/dwelling
compound and out in the street.

Figure 3: A fence designed and built to allow visual communication between house compound
and the street, but later the visual communication has been sealed palm leaves.
One also notices that in most of the ventilated wall fences, modification leading to partial or
total closure of the ventilation openings has been effected. Often, cement mortar or planting of
creeping plants or using palm leaves to obstruct and close out the view from outside the fence.
Metal gates of different designs and makes facilitate opening into the street. However, there
are also a few houses, which do not have fencing walls at all, and most of these portray the
status of low-income families. Some are still under construction, or still unplaster and
unpainted. In addition to the walls fences, the houses are barricaded on windows and doors
with metal grills. This is said to instill security and delay the would-be intruders or any forced
entry into the house in case one is able to overcome the fences.

Figure 4: A example of house types found in Mikocheni B. Most houses in the area are of high
standard.

Figure 5: A two storey residential house in Mikocheni B. Houses in the area are a mix of single
and double storey house types.
 The area was planned with roads and streets forming a gridiron pattern, thus every plot can be
easily accessible. However, even though the streets and roads here are passable, not all of them
are hardsurfaced. Either, most streets are earth or gravel-rolled and many of them are not in
good state. This situation has been made worse as they have been reduced in side by the
encroaching fencing walls which in turn concentrate the rainwater thus turning the streets into
rainwater streams during the rain seasons. This eventually hastens or rather increases the wear
and tear of the streets. There are no side drains on the streets because of the wall fencing and
encroachment. There are no street lighting, thus the area is dark at night, save for some few
homeowners who have provided lighting at their gates.

Figure 6: A ventilated fencing wall topped with iron spikes to forestall climbing. The ventilation
holes can be used to scale the wall.

Figure 7: A gate into the house compound designed to allow visual communication between the
house and the street. Note the attempt to obstruct the visual communication as designed.
The Sites and Services Plans for the two areas provided spaces for neighbourhood centres to
accommodate a primary school, a market and a community hall. However, the areas that were
designated for these functions in Mikocheni A have been converted into residential use, while
in Mikocheni B, the areas were developed according to the plan except that the community
hall has not been built. A primary school and the market centre were built according to the
plan. A retired Civil Engineer, Mr. Massawe, the most common type of crime that has given
rise to the erection of fencing walls were burglary and home robberies. The situation was
reported to have worsened in the late 1980s when the area experienced an increasing wave of
criminal activities resulting from a cartel of drug dealers who used the neighbourhood market
centre to distribute drugs to youths, who in turn terrorized the neighbourhood at night and
sometime in broad daylight.

Figure 8: To the left, a fence designed and built to allow visual communication. Note the planting
to obscure the view. To the right the wall is designed and built to cut out visual communication.

Figure 9: An attempt to block the visual communication between the house compound and the
outside street on what used to be a see through fence. Enhanced visual communication may
reduce privacy.

According to the Engineer, several reasons are advanced for as some of causes for the increase
of crimes in Dar es Salaam. Some of these reasons are: population increase as a result of rural-
urban migration; high rate of unemployment as a result of increased population and the closure
of many parasternal companies and industrial establishments; and liberalization policies
which allowed importation of goods and services that were previously not allowed in the
country, such as television sets, music systems, radio sets, used cars and motor vehicles spare
parts and others. Mikocheni being occupied by middle and high-income residents turned out
to be an area where most residents can afford to pay for them. This situation attracted the
would-be robbers, burglars and petty thieves in the area especially during the nighttime. In
addition, the fact that many of the residents in the area were employed, thus leaving for work
in the morning and coming back only at the end of the day, made it a good area for the would-
be crime inclined to survey the area during the day and select the targets for the night attack.
The area suited well in applying the Cohen’s and Felson’s ‘routine activity theory’, that
assumes that, ‘for a crime to occur, there must be a convergence in time and space three
minimal elements: a likely offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian
against crime’. During this period (1980s), incidences of crime happened almost weekly if not
daily. The situation made worse by the lack of police patrols and street lighting. This was even
serious during the rain season, when apparently the rain covered the criminal trails and also
made it difficult to hear the footsteps.
 Chapter 3
PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES
Three concepts were suggested:

• Crimes against people and property are less likely to occur if other people are around

• It is also important that other people are able to see what is happening, and

• It is important to give people options and safe choices, particularly in their responses to what is
happening.

Before examining the prevention of crime through the design of different types of urban settings,
consider first six key principles which will inform the approach to the different built
environments.

SURVEILLANCE

The idea of passive or “natural” surveillance is central to CPTED.

How then to create and manage our urban environments to “put eyes on the street or place”?

Clearly this must involve a combination of:

• The design of the public realm itself, whether neighborhood, street, plaza or park

• The legitimate activities in that public realm

• The design of the buildings that define or adjoin that public realm and hence the physical
possibility of overlooking it, and

• The land uses and activities in those buildings and hence the potential they create to have lots
of people “available” to see into the public realm.

Principle

The public realm and buildings must be designed and managed to maximize, consistent with
other legitimate goals, the potential for passive surveillance.
Actions

1.1 Design with surveillance in mind.

1.2 Manage with surveillance in mind.

1.3 Require a compatible mix of uses in buildings and spaces (for example, restaurants, offices,
shops, community or recreation facilities and urban housing) that:

• attract lots of people from the community, and/or

• deliver people for long hours night and day, and/or
• Encourage pedestrian movement between uses.

1.1 Put particular emphasis on the building design and uses at the level of the public realm (for
example, the shop fronts or entry levels to buildings).

1.4 Locate active public and private uses thoughtfully within the precinct (for example, at
corners or overlooking squares and parks or along important pedestrian routes) to maximise
the contribution they can make to the surveillance of important places.

1.5 Locate potentially “difficult” uses (for example, some bars or night clubs) with other less
challenging activities to ensure there is a range of people in the area.
1.6 Design public spaces to facilitate and encourage legitimate community and individual
activities.

1.7 Design with unimpeded sightlines to key places in mind and then manage to maintain those
sightlines (for example, maintaining view corridors over low bushes or walls and under the
canopy of trees or shade structures).

1.8 Design to avoid “blind spots” where there is a reduced opportunity to see and be seen (as
discussed further in Principle 6: Vulnerability).

2 LEGIBLITY
3 TERRITORIALITY
4 OWNERSHIP OF THE OUTCOMES
5 MANAGEMENT
6 VULNERABILITY
 Figure 11: Thermal Interaction of Human Body and Environment (ASHRAE Handbook, 2001)

Table 11 : Variation of MRT and Radiant Asymmetry with respect to Emissivity factor of glazing
in Delhi Winter condition – Result from Simulation study.

Minimum MRT and Radiant Asymmetry

Delhi –Winter
Radiation
Minimum
Asymmetry in
MRT in oC o
C
Double glazing 19.5 3
Double glazing,e = 0.60 20 2.5
Double glazing,e = 0.40 20.2 2.3
Double glazing,e = 0.20 20.4 2.1
Double glazing,e = 0.10 20.5 2
Triple glazing-6.4mm air space 20.5 2

References :
All references used in writing the dissertation (whether direct quotations or paraphrasing)
should be included in a reference list, compiled in alphabetical order by author.

• Alhamdani, N., and Ahmad, A. (1987). “Thermal behaviour of a building envelope in a hot arid
climate”. Solar & Wind Technology, 4(1), 59-69.
• Crews, Kenneth D. (1996). Copyright Law and the Doctoral Dissertation. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI
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• The Chicago Manual of Style. (1993). 14th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

(Refer the referencing guidelines attached)

Appendices :
Privacy

At first blush, natural surveillance can be seen as a technique that destroys individual privacy.
Submitting more behavior to the watchful eyes of strangers indeed may undermine privacy.
In this section, I outline some reasons why government can both be faithful to privacy interests
and support natural surveillance and similar crime reduction techniques.

Social control

The evolution in methods of social control shows how punishment moved away from
inflicting pain on the body towards creating a system where enforcers could always view what
people were doing--“eyes that must see without being seen.” though underappreciated by legal
scholars, is a claim about modern architecture.

Geographic substitution

A potential problem with architectural solutions to crime is that they may create geographic
substitution; that is, offenses may simply be displaced to those locations with less architectural
protections. If so, architecture is not necessarily reducing crime, it is shifting it. Of course,
displacement may be a reason for government regulation of architecture when regulation
achieves greater spatial uniformity of architectural precautions.