Pattern of Pedestrian Injuries in the City of Nairobi: Implications for Urban Safety Planning

There is a direct relationship between urban safety in Istanbul and neoliberal urban planning policies that has led to the creation of a new wealthy class. Such a class has risen from profiteering from land deals and the construction of housing and offices, both of which were politically facilitated. The classification of areas of the city as being at risk from crime and earthquake, together with the legalisation of urban change projects, have resulted in whole sections of the community being declared at risk and moved to other areas with an attendant rise in social exclusion.

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Demographic Analysis of Childhood Pedestrian Injuries

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.76.3.375 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 375-381

Author(s):

Frederick P. Rivara ◽

Melvin Barber

Keyword(s):

Traffic Engineering ◽

Living Environment ◽

Socioeconomic Background ◽

Poverty Level ◽

Injured Child ◽

Census Tracts ◽

Pedestrian Injury ◽

The Hours ◽

Pedestrian Injuries ◽

The City

Factors in a child's living environment and socioeconomic background that contribute to the risk of pedestrian injury were studied. In 1982, in the city of Memphis, there were 210 pedestrian injuries among children aged 0 to 14 years, a rate of 138/100,000 children. The injured child was most often male, with mean age of 7.3 years; the child was usually struck while crossing the street between intersections, most commonly during the hours from 2 to 7 PM. Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city. Compared with census tracts without reported injuries, these tracts had twice the percentage of nonwhite population, lower household incomes, more children living in female-headed house-holds, more families living below the poverty level, and greater household crowding (all differences significant at P < .01). The single variable of crowded housing per acre best predicted the number of injuries per acre in multiple regression analysis. A group of children who are at high risk of pedestrian injury through increased exposure in the environment was identified. As with many other types of injuries, modification of external factors—in this case, traffic engineering modifications—seems to be the most practical solution.

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Perception of urban safety: the case of Lublin, Poland

Miscellanea Geographica ◽

10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 25-34

Author(s):

Viktoriya Pantyley ◽

Jolanta Rodzoś ◽

Mateusz Piskorski

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Statistical Analysis ◽

Public Life ◽

Police Department ◽

Place Of Residence ◽

Clear Zone ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Urban Safety ◽

The City

Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate safety and its underlying factors among the inhabitants of Lublin. The findings are based on a questionnaire with 33 detailed questions conducted in May 2012 in all districts of the city. The collected data from the survey and Voivodeship Police Department in Lublin was analysed using ArcGIS and STATISTICA software. The analysis of the crime data shows the existence in the city of a clear zone of increased risk of crime occurrence. The survey showed that, in the last 10 years, approximately 28.1% of the responding inhabitants of Lublin have been victims of a crime in the city. Statistical analysis of the results revealed a statistically significant correlation between people’s evaluations of safety in Lublin districts and their age, gender, income, place of residence, quality of life, and participation in public life.

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SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY AND URBAN SAFETY AND SECURITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE CITY CENTRE OF GENOA, ITALY

Urban Transport XXIV ◽

10.2495/ut180181 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

SELENA CANDIA ◽

FRANCESCA PIRLONE ◽

ILENIA SPADARO

Keyword(s):

City Centre ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Urban Safety ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽

The City

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Fire and Smoke Protection Measures for High-Rise Buildings

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2011.p0629 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 629-643

Author(s):

Suminao Murakami ◽

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Yoshiteru Murosaki ◽

Keyword(s):

Fire Protection ◽

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Disaster Prevention ◽

Safety Planning ◽

Special Issue ◽

National Research Institute ◽

Protection Measures ◽

High Rise ◽

Urban Safety ◽

Hanshin Earthquake

Upon planning the JDR Special issue on Fire and Emergency Evacuation in a High-rise Building, an interview was held on August 15, 2011, at Laboratory of Urban Safety Planning in Chiyodaku, Tokyo. Prof. Yoshiteru Murosaki of Kwansei Gakuin University, who was involved in the recovery project of the Great Hanshin earthquake and has served as the chairman of the National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, interviewed Dr. Suminao Murakami (JDR Editorin-chief), Honorary Director of Laboratory of Urban Safety Planning, has been involved in many disaster prevention plans as well as having experienced many disaster sites in Japan, on the theme of fire protection measures for high-rise buildings.

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‘Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy’

Criminology & Criminal Justice ◽

10.1177/1748895809343390 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 403-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Adam Crawford ◽

John Flint

Keyword(s):

Social Behaviour ◽

Night Time ◽

Contested Space ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Economic Forces ◽

Urban Safety ◽

Excessive Consumption ◽

The Subject ◽

Normative Constraints ◽

The City

The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of contemporary British cities has been influenced by concerns with tackling anti-social behaviour and promoting civility. It argues that in governing urban safety, the normative governmental agendas that seek to remoralize and cleanse city spaces and promote certain values of appropriate consumer-citizen, often clash with commercially-driven imperatives to (excessive) consumption and the allure of cities, for some, as places of difference that exhibit relaxed normative constraints; most notably in the night-time economy. It argues that the manner in which these forces are played out is conditioned by the interplay between different actors and organizations, as both regulators and regulated, some of whom have assumed new responsibilities in the governance of urban safety. The resultant pressures have produced mixed experiences of the city as a meeting place for loosely connected strangers, as a place of indulgence and as a place of cultural expression.

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Congratulations! The Seventh JDR Award

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2021.p1155 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (8) ◽

pp. 1155-1155

Author(s):

Editor-in-Chief ◽

Haruo Hayashi

Keyword(s):

Safety Planning ◽

Future Success ◽

Urban Safety

We announce that the Seventh JDR Award was won by Prof. Suminao Murakami, Laboratory of Urban Safety Planning. We congratulate the winner and sincerely wish for future success.

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Mapping of sexist violence in Valencia (Spain)

Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research ◽

10.1344/jnmr.v1i2.31839 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 27-49

Author(s):

Amparo Alonso Sanz

Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

Art Education ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Affect Theory ◽

Human Geography ◽

Public Debates ◽

Urban Safety ◽

The City

This article examines the ways in which issues of women’s safety in public spacesmight be integrated into artistic practices in art education from an intersectional and queer review of gender in the city. It considers the contributions from human geography, feminism and affect theory, trying to incorporate all of those perspectives into a pedagogical proposal. The first part of the article introduces the main issues to be explored, acknowledging them in the context of recent public debates in Spain that were related to gender and urban safety. The second part presents the results of a participatory, ephemeral, vindictive and artistic action developed with students of amaster’s degree in Secondary Education Teaching in the specialty of visual arts at theUniversity of Valencia: An action of mapping the sexist violence in Valencia. Lastly, the article concludes with the presentation of emotional and educational profits gained by used practices.

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Underground Space Development and Urban Safety

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.516 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 209-211 ◽

pp. 516-520

Author(s):

Shu Ran Lv

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Land Resource ◽

Underground Space ◽

Urban Problem ◽

Urban Safety ◽

Full Discussion ◽

Role Based ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

With the rapid development of China economy, China urbanization process is entering high–speed development period. At the same time, the development of underground space is also entering the high-speed period. The development of underground space and the safety of the city is inseparable, the development of underground space is playing an important role in the settlement of the current urban safety, the constraints of the urban land resource, the narrow of the building space, the traffic jams, the worsening environmental pollution and city disaster prevention ability inadequacy, plays a more and more important role. Based on the analysis of urban safety that the city is facing, this paper makes full discussion of the relationship between the development of underground space and urban safety as well as the urban problem-solving approach.

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Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500012961 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 202-203

Author(s):

Robert Chatham

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Public Health System ◽

Municipal Hospital ◽

The Public ◽

Public Benefit ◽

For Profit ◽

Benefit Corporation ◽

The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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