These resources provide information on connecting safety efforts to other elements of a broader vision for neighborhood revitalization.
- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) brief: This brief explains how CPTED works, gives examples of local successes, and examines the Do's and Don'ts of how to use it in a fair and equitable manner.
- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) presentation: This updated presentation gives an overview of how the fundamental principles of CPTED work.
- Connecting Crime Reduction and Neighborhood Revitalization: This paper discusses how BCJI programs connect public safety efforts with community development activities such as redeveloping housing, neighborhood clean-up, and targeting problematic properties.
- Choice Neighborhoods Are Safe Neighborhoods: This guide examines the work of the Choice Neighborhoods and BCJI grantees in the South End of Springfield, MA.
- Concept Intro: Revitalization: This brief describes how physically altering public and private spaces can have positive impacts on a community.
- CPTED for the 21st Century: Understanding how a community’s built environment can impact crime is fundamental for place-based community safety efforts. This recorded webinar discusses the theory and principles CPTED. It includes how CPTED can be integrated into broader neighborhood safety planning, why resident feedback should influence proposed changes, and how to be sensitive to a neighborhood’s culture, history, and connection to the broader community.
- Revitalizing Distressed Commercial Corridors: This presentation explains the relationship between safety and successful commercial corridors.
- Combining Revitalization and Community Safety: In this webinar, leaders from the Austin and Dayton BCJI sites describe how they addressed crime associated with vacant properties, ranging from residential homes to large undeveloped areas of land. The discussion covers the potential for driving physical and economic revitalization in conjunction with crime reduction efforts.