Safer Cities for Women

Abstract

This chapter is based on the findings of the Home Office Safer Cities Projects and a series of interactive meetings organised by the authors at the University of Nottingham, bringing together women’s groups and planning officers. The first objective was to make those responsible for transport and land-use planning aware of how seriously women’s use of town centres and access to work and leisure was affected by the fear of attack. The second objective was to explore with women’s groups their response to some of the planning remedies that are being proposed to make the environment less conducive to crime or to insulate women from their effects.