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http://dx.doi.org/10.9715/KILA.2018.46.3.027

The Effects of Urban Park and Vegetation on Crime in Seoul and Its Planning Implication to CPTED  

Cho, Min-gyun (Major in Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, University of Seoul)
Park, Chan (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul)
Jang, Jeong-in (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture / v.46, no.3, 2018 , pp. 27-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the mandatory application of the CPTED, only negative parts of urban parks and vegetation were reflected. Therefore, this study tries to present the positive effects of urban parks and vegetation. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effects of urban parks and vegetation on crime occurrence and to suggest the planning implications of this to CPTED based on theory related to crime, environmental psychology, and crime occurrence analysis. This study used the crime occurrence data of Seoul, NDVI, population, distance from urban park, floating population, and the like. This study collected data from the Statistics Korea, the local government, and Landsat 8 satellite images provided by the USGS and created data of environmental variables and social variables by district using ArcGIS and statistical program. Literature analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and geographically weighted regression were used to determine the relationship between crime occurrence and environmental variables, and to discuss its implication. It was found that crime occurrence has a relationship with the total population (${\beta}=.663$), the number of amusement facilities (${\beta}=.447$) and the area of a police station jurisdiction (${\beta}=.395$). This confirms that a crime rate is low when the floating population is large (${\beta}=-.241$) and vegetation vitality is high (NDVI, ${\beta}=-.281$). Vegetation vitality (NDVI) is effective in lowering violence through psychological stabilization, strengthening territoriality and improving regional image. The implications for the allocation of urban park and vegetation, program and management plan of urban park and vegetation to reduce crime occurrence have therefore been presented.
Keywords
Crime; NDVI; Environmental Psychology; Environmental Criminology; Defensible Space Theory;
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