The materialisation of Jane Jacob's view "eyes on streets": Quantitative tools to measure adjacency, permeability and inter-visibility between buildings and streets

One of Jane Jacob’s key observations was that we need “eyes on the streets” from buildings to ensure safety. How can it be quantified? Research on urban environment by means of space syntax methods tend to focus on macro scale spatial conditions. However, micro scale conditions should not be neglected. In research on dispersal of burglaries in...