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标题：Urban Crime and Pattern Conceptions: Departuring from Spatiality
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作者：Hesam Kamalipour ; Gholamhossein Memarian ; Mohsen Faizi 等
期刊名称：Open Journal of Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2327-5952
电子版ISSN：2327-5960
出版年度：2014
卷号：02
期号：06
页码：441-450
DOI：10.4236/jss.2014.26051
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Various conceptions of pattern from biology, computer science, and mathematics to environmental design, psychology, and sociology give rise to the multiplicity of definitions, descriptions, applications, scales, and common features of spatial patterns in urban environments. Considering the complex relations between spatiality and sociality in place theory, the study tends to explore a growing body of knowledge in conceptions of urban crime and pattern. Placing the investigations of urban crime in relation to sociality and spatiality, the paper advocates for departuring from spatiality that is the common ground between urban crime and pattern conceptions. Hence, dismissing both deterministic and free-will approaches to environmental design and addressing the urban crime as a complex city problem, the study argues that adopting a kind of spatial knowledge and possibilistic approach is critical for both understanding and transforming the city in order to investigate the issue of urban crime in relation to spatial patterns.
关键词：Urban Crime; Pattern; Crime Prevention through Environmental Design; Fear of Crime; Pattern Language; Spatiality