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Improving perceived safety through spatial design in Pendrecht

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Abstract

This research focuses on the relationship between perceived safety and the physical environment and is conducted in the neighborhood Pendrecht, a modernist neighborhood in Rotterdam-Zuid. The research has identified the effects of the spatial environment on perceived safety and has selected design principles that according to theory would improve the perceived safety. The effects of the design principles on the perceived safety is validated through a stated choice experiment. The final outcome of this thesis is a neighborhood transformation design that integrates the validated design principles.