Analysis of Crime Prevention Factors through Environmental Design (CPTED) in Mehr Housing, Case Study: Mehr Housing of Nazarabad City

Security and reducing crime opportunities and diminishing criminal incentives have become a global commitment. Security by designing an appropriate approach to the realization of a safe urban environment by employing appropriate and purposeful design of the human environment that it tries to reduce the occurrence of urban environments by planning and designing efficiently. Mehr Housing is one of the policies of the last decade in Iran that has been formed to provide low-income housing but, despite being newly constructed, has failed to address the needs and concerns of its residents And crime is one of the most important debates in these urban arenas right now. In this article, Mehr Housing of Nazarabad has been analyzed and evaluated from the viewpoint of residents and finally design and planning strategies for crime prevention have been presented. The CPTED components based on the theoretical literature of this area were extracted and distributed to 220 residents of Mehr Township through a questionnaire And analyzed by factor and regression. The results of this analysis show that the seven factors of people's natural supervision in the urban environment, solidarity in the local community, anthropogenic design, collection management and maintenance, servicing, tailoring and promotion of identity are factors influencing the improvement of security in this town from the perspective of residents And the first three factors have the most influence and correlation with this category. Therefore, planning and designing to enhance each of these factors can enhance residents' perceptual security. Creating population-absorbing activities in urban spaces, creating commercial and 24 hours activities, holding cultural-religious ceremonies and creating urban spaces for gathering residents are high priority in this residential town.