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Fighting Crime with Landscape Design
16th August 2007
The Home Office has launched a Design and Technology Alliance to take forward its strategy to use better design in the fight against crime.
Design experts are joining the Alliance and their role will be to raise the profile within industry of how innovative design can tackle crime. They will work with the Home Office to embed the message that design can have a real impact on cutting crime by making it harder and less attractive for criminals.
An example of how design can successfully tackle crime comes from Hulme, an inner city area of Manchester. Landscape Institute registered practice, Landscape Projects, were asked to develop an entirely new park. The result is Hulme Park, which demonstrates the value of design in creating a safe, green and communal environment within an area previously notorious for high levels of crime, especially robbery and burglary.
