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Walking with Park: Exploring the ‘reframing’ and integration of CPTED principles in neighbourhood regeneration in Seoul, South Korea

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This article offers a case study of a crime prevention initiative delivered in a neighbourhood of Seoul in South Korea, led by the Design Policy Department of Seoul Metropolitan Government and catalysed by the Mayor of Seoul, Park Won Soon. Here Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles have been implemented via an asset-oriented approach that integrates multiple social drivers (that is, needs and goals) within solutions to crime problems. These solutions have been developed and implemented with and by communities rather than for them. The article considers the similarities between the second-generation CPTED approach and design for social innovation and sustainability, and explores the possibility of a third-generation CPTED, which ‘reframes’ crime problems drawing upon ‘design thinking’ to deliver an integrated address to multiple social drivers that realises CPTED outcomes without being CPTED led.

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  1. Smart growth addresses the core issue of how communities will accommodate inevitable growth in a way that enhances livability, the environment and the economy. See O’Neill (1999) and Urban Land Institute (1998).

  2. The term ‘urban acupuncture’ is argued to orginate from the work of the artist Gordon Matta Clark, but was first systemised and conceptualised in the writings of Finnish academic and practitioner, Professor Marco Casagrande.

  3. For a discussion on design led social innovation see Gamman and Thorpe (2011).

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Mayor Park Won Soon and colleagues Kang Hyo-Jin, Kwon Eun-Sun, Lee Seong-Hye and Lee Chang-Ho for their invitation to Seoul and openness in sharing first hand their innovative approach to CPTED applied within the Salt Way project and the insights gained from this experience. Also for their assistance in ensuring the accuracy of project details contained within this article.

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Thorpe, A., Gamman, L. Walking with Park: Exploring the ‘reframing’ and integration of CPTED principles in neighbourhood regeneration in Seoul, South Korea. Crime Prev Community Saf 15, 207–222 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2013.6

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