BASIC CPTED EXAM Flashcards
- Know the premise of CPTED
“The proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the incidence and fear of crime and to an improvement in the quality of life”
- What is the 3-D concept of CPTED?
Designated, definitions and designs.
All human space has some designated purpose.
All human space has social, cultural, legal, or physical definitions (see slide for rest of it)
- Be able to identify examples of CPTED strategies.
Answer is: Clear t4ansistion zones, safe activities in unsafe activities. Clear boarder definitions.
- Is perception of crime unimportant when designing our environment?
Answer? False
- What are some example of an organized Crime Prevention options?
Answer: Security, neighborhood watch
- CPTED strategies are intended to focus on the behavior and perceptions of which of the groups?
Answer : normal user abnormal user and observer user.
- CPTED stands for
Answer: Crime prevention th rough environmental design
- ____________________coined the phrase CPTED?
Answer: C. Ray Jeffrey
- “Eyes on the street” is a term that was used by ____________
Jane Jacobs
- What is Natural Surveillance?
Answer: where people and their activities are naturally (readily) observered.
- What is the use of sidewalks, paving materials, lighting, landscaping, fencing, public art, and colorful design elements to guide or allow access to the site?
Answer: access control
- What is the use of pavement treatments, landscaping, art, signage, screening, and fences to define and outline ownership of property?
Answer: Territorial reinforcement
- What are Transition zones?
Answer: public, semi public and private
- What areas are they used to separate?
Answer: public, semi public and private areas
- Under the CPTED model what is design defined?
Includes physical, social management, and directives that seek to affect positively. Human behavior as people interact with their environment.
Normal users (outnumber 100 to 1 of abnormal users)
Abnormal users
Observers
- Under the CPTED model what is environment defined?
Answer: people and social surroundings
- In CPTED, windows on the exterior of a building are an example of what?
Answer natural surrounding
- When CPTED strategies cannot be applied, should physical security applications be taken into consideration?
Answer: True
- What are the three crime prevention options typically available to control criminal behavior?
Answer: organized, mechanical and natural
- CPTED places the greatest emphasis on which crime prevention option?
Answer: Natural
- Landscaping an important element when applying CPTED concepts?
Answer: True
- Is maintenance plan essential in landscaping?
Answer: Yes, a maintenance plan is essential.
- From a CPTED standpoint landscaping should not disrupt critical areas of natural surveillance. What are examples where natural surveillance is critical?
Answer: parks and trails, travel paths and parking lots
- In landscaping, what is the two-foot-six-foot rule?
exceed 6 foot rule for a canopy or low ground cover be less than 2 feet in height.
- Can landscaping, when used properly, do all the following?
a. Define territory
B. Control access
C. Create ownership of a site
Answer: All True
- In considering placement of a fence or wall, what would the CPTED benefits be?
Answer: Allow transparency for surveillance; create a sense of community; provide character for the area.
- Lighting has two purposes within the CPTED model.
Answer: A. The primary purpose is for the illumination of human activity.
B. The secondary purpose of lighting is for security.
- What lighting option offers the best color rendering?
Answer: LED
- ________________is a measure of light striking a surface one square foot in area on which one unit of light is uniformly rendering?
Answer: Footcandle
- What is the single most cost-effective deterrent to night crime?
Answer: is lighting
- What should be considered in evaluating lighting for a site?
Answer: Size of the area to be illuminated. Amount of light needed to illuminate uniformalley. Type and nature of the facility.
- Which is the best lamp for the illumination of human activity?
Answer: LED
- What is traffic Calming?
A combination of mainly physical measures that seeks to:
1. Reduce the negative effect of motor vehicle use 2. Later driver behavior 3. Improve conditions for non-motorized street users
- What are the objectives of traffic calming?
Answer: Traffic calming is the combination of mainly physical measures that. Reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle us, alter driver behavior, and improve conditions for non-motorized street users. Increase safe driver speeds. Reduce the need for police enforcement.
- What are speed bumps and what are they effective in doing?
Answer: A round raised platform on the street designed to reduce travel speeds.
- Does cut through traffic add to the safety of a neighborhood by providing more surveillance?
Answer: False because it’s cut through traffic.
- Will closing streets stop all crime problems?
Answer: No.
- What are some of the benefits of Mandatory CPTED site reviews?
Answer: Gives the CPTED reviewer to comment on potential public safety concerns regarding a proposed project. To apply CPTED standards uniformity
- In conducting a neighborhood CPTED site review, an inventory of the neighborhood should include what?
Answer: demographics, safe and unsafe places, land use.
- What are CPTED site reviews used for?
Answer: The purpose of the review is to ensure conformity with land development regulations.
- Another term for an outline drawing between the CPTED designer and the client is a _____________.
Answer: schematic.
- What are completed site plan drawings that have yet to receive the necessary governmental approvals to become “Final Site Plans?”
Answer: Preliminary site plans.
- When designing and planning a site, it is. Important to know the use of the surrounding land adjacent the project?
Answer: yes (adjoining land use).
- When designing and planning a site, is it important to know the use of the surround land adjacent the project?
Answer: design phase.
- When dealing with zoning issues utilizing CPTED, what elements are essential?
Answer: yard setbacks, location and amount of parking, development density.
- In conducting a CPTED security survey there are several categories to consider.
- What are examples of Organized Security?
- What are examples of Mechanical Security?
- What are examples of Natural Security?
Answer: 1. Neighborhood watch
- Alarms. Camera,
- CPTED
- For crime analysis purposes, a __________year review of crime is recommended.
Answer: 5. Year study of crime.
- Why is it important to have written documentation
of the CPTED security survey?
Answer: Provides for a record of performance, a record of recommendations, record of liability issues, ends the opportunity for a denial that information was given, (miscommunication).
- A vital part of the CPTED security survey is a ‘Disclaimer’ which should be approved by who?
Answer: The agency’s legal department.
