A Design Against Crime Intervention to Reduce Violence in the Night-time Economy on “Stuff I Keep Rereading”, a list by Cal Mason on TheLysts.
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2012
Focus
Evaluates pedestrianisation and design tweaks in Manchester’s Gay Village as a way to cut weekend violence without wrecking the vibe.
My take
This is pure catnip if you like small spatial moves with big behavioural effects – it’s literally, ‘what if we just take the cars out for a bit and see if everyone stops lamping each other?’ and the data says… yeah, sort of.