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When City Parks Are Your Quad: Urban Campus Planning for Safety and Wellbeing

Delivered April 7, 2025
Planning Types: Campus Planning

As security remains of paramount concern for campus communities, how should institutions thoughtfully engage the urban fabric? Urban campuses are constrained by their verticality and publicly-permeable urban edges. This session will delve into a 2023 SCUP Fellows report with additional updated analysis of campus responses and overreach to protests this past year. In-depth analysis of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles through a lens of student development theory will provide you with insight into student wellbeing and sense of security through campus design.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify ways to improve your urban campus edge planning and design through CPTED principles with an additional lens of student development theory to center students' sense of security.
  2. Avoid inequitable design and operations solutions to enhance campus security by understanding student and community development theories in relation to how CPTED defines security.
  3. Gain a toolset of principles and questions about effective campus edge design strategies for your institutional culture that allows for the integration of public spaces and visitors.
  4. Identify physical design elements that encourage feelings of security on campus while also allowing for permeability and openness to the public.

Presenters:

Joel Pettigrew, Business Development Manager, ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge

Delivered 04/07/2025.

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