‘상업지역’ 보행로의 범죄안전 환경을 위한 조명계획 방향에 관한 연구

Abstract

Crime and the fear of crime are increasing in today’s modern cities. Especially, the crimes in ‘commercial districts’ do happen at a critical level. Since the streets in ‘commercial districts’are where heavy traffic of people takes place, they must be well protected and kept away from various kinds of crimes. The purpose of this study is to research and analyze lighting plans of streets at ‘commercial districts’ in Seoul in order to establish an environment that is safe and free from night crimes and fear of crimes, and also to propose a direction of the lighting plans for a crime-free environment. The methods of this study are preceding studies review and field survey. The contents and the method of the study are as follows: first, after referring to crime-related statistical data published by Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, three ‘commercial districts’ in Seoul with total of 56 streets where top 5 crimes occur most often were selected, and relative ‘crime risks’ have been evaluated against each street. Second, checklists has been written based on total of 28 preceding studies related to establishing crime-free environment. Also, visits to streets at designated ‘commercial districts’ were made to research qualitative and quantitative lighting plans of each street. Third,methods such as average comparison, frequency analysis and correlation analysis have been preceded about the research results. Fourth, this study has proposed directions for lighting plan to create a crime-free environment at ‘commercial districts’. The following conclusions can be drawn from the results of this study: first, in order to establish a crime-free environment at streets in ‘commercial districts’, uniform brightness is needed. Second, in order to establish a crime-free environment at streets in ‘commercial districts’, well thought out plans for streetlights are needed. Third, in order to establish a crime-free environment at streets in ‘commercial districts’, lighting plans that consider various environmental characteristics of the areas are needed.