Promoting Public Safety through Design

The Metropolitan Police Department is embedding police commanders with developers to assure that future developments are designed with public safety, crowd control and traffic in mind. The massive development at Gallery Place has taught public safety officials that instead of reacting to safety issues after the projects have been built, they should influence the design process by having a seat at the table during the design process.

“Police have long sought to promote public safety through design, encouraging such common-sense features as bright streetlights, discouraging secluded footpaths and laying out roads to make it difficult to circle a block.”


Reference: Hermann, Peter, District police embrace concept of preventing crime through design, The Washington Post, September 3, 2012

Other Recent Posts:

War on Cars

Amtrak’s Vision for the Historic Union Station

Taiwan’s High Speed Rail

DC is No Longer the Greenest Municipality