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WHAT SHOULD MALAYSIA DO TO

OVERCOME THIS ISSUE?

The highest number of crime reported in WHAT IS CPTED?
mass and social media resulted to decline Crime prevention through environmental
number of tourist due to unsafe feelings design (CPTED) is an agenda for
among them especially. Thus, Malaysia manipulating the built environment to create
need to aggressively ensure public safety
in order to gain trust among tourists. safer neighbourhoods.
It originated in America around 1960, when
HOW TO ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY?
urban renewal strategies were felt to be
To reduce fear of crime as well as the destroying the social framework needed for
crime rate in Malaysia, it should self-policing. Architect Oscar Newman
aggressively applys Crime Prevention created the concept of ‘defensible spaces’
through Environmental Design (CPTED) . which developed further by criminologist C.
CPTED is not a new approach to Malaysia Ray Jeffery who coined the term CPTED.
but its application towards reducing the
CPTED IN KOREA
crime is not applicable to entire Malaysia.
In June 2012, Mapo-gu Yeomri-dong was
Malaysia can follow Mapo-gu Yeomri-
dong in Seoul, the South Korean urban selected as a CPTED target area as part of
area that first applied CPTED as a UNESCO's "Creative Cities Project".
benchmark where not just CPTED was Subsequently, a 1.7 km trail called the "Salt
applied but surroundings also pysically Way" was created, in which CPTED principles
changed and the use of interesting and were applied through the integration of visual
fencies elements also occupied its CPTED. crime preventive elements (e.g.,colors and
graphics) and physical crime-preventive
elements (e.g., lighting, IP,cameras, and safety
fences).

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