Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
CPTED is an internationally adopted approach to better design. It is increasingly popular in Aotearoa New Zealand.
CPTED considers and focuses on the layout, design and use of spaces and places to encourage desirable activity and discourage undesirable activity. It is defined by the International CPTED Association as:
“Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to crime prevention that uses urban and architectural design and the management of built and natural environments.
CPTED strategies aim to reduce victimization, deter offender decisions that precede criminal acts, and build a sense of community among inhabitants so they can gain territorial control of areas, reduce crime, and minimize fear of crime.
CPTED is pronounced ‘sep-ted’ and it is also known around the world as Designing Out Crime, defensible space, and other similar terms. ICA home page (cpted.net)
CPTED led Design
He ara Kotahi Bridge, Palmerston North
The popular and multi-award winning He ara Kotahi bridge (Karaka Bridge) is a strongly CPTED led design for a shared walkway-cycleway featuring multiple CPTED principles of better design.
Our CPTED Experience and Services
VisionUrban can offer the services of one of the country’s most experienced practitioners of CPTED.
Since the early 2000’s Nick Aiken has prepared a wide range of CPTED assessments and audits. These are either stand-alone or as part of larger projects and assessments. Typically, CPTED has been incorporated into other assessment work, improving integration from project outset for improved efficiencies and outcomes.
Nick’s extensive CPTED project experience includes residential, park-reserve, transport facility and pathway, community facility, school, university, hospital, and retail environments; and extends from Northland to Canterbury, including Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, and Christchurch and many reginal cities and towns.
Nick Aiken is a member of the International CPTED Association.
Key Urban Design and Urban Planning services offered by VisionUrban are:
- CPTED Assessments (including within UDA or ULDF)
- CPTED Strategies
- CPTED Design Reviews and Audits
- CPTED Masterplans
- Combined Urban Design and CPTED Assessment and Review
- CPTED Options Assessments and Reports
- Community Engagement
- Preparing and Presenting CPTED Evidence to Council/Commissioner Hearings
