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General Principle |
Specific Tactic |
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A. Increasing Visibility |
- Install new lighting
- Replace bulbs in old lighting
- Clean light reflectors and fixtures
- Brighten signs
- Put in white ceilings
- Use light colour paint and brighter tile on
walls
- Use glass for internal walls
- Avoid walls that obstruct line of sight
- Make columns no wider than necessary
- Make stores easy to see into and out from
- Use special stripping and sealing chemicals on
floors
- Locate information booths, kiosks,
advertising, news-stands to reduce obstruction
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B. Close nooks and improve natural supervision |
- Install pushcarts and place them strategically
- Renovate the food court
- Avoid interior doors
- Avoid direct access to extra stairwells
- Keep stairs away from street entries
- Close off areas under stairwells
- Close in areas between columns
- Bring walls out to columns
- Close emergency stairs off-hours
- Block off much of bus station off-hours
- Use only sawtooth gates off-hours
- Centralise ticketing
- Improve street entrances to the building
- Put merchants in key places, and to fill in
empty spots
- Replace police cars with golf carts in parking
structure
- Use clear glass panels on waiting room walls
- Wall up unneeded areas
- Block walls around bus gates against transient
take-overs
- Block elevators from public use
- Block off construction areas with plywood
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C. Improve flows |
- Arrange better stairway and escalator flow
pattern
- Streamline vertical and horizontal circulation
- Use Agents to solve problems and to keep
traffic moving
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D. Discourage loitering and hustling in other ways |
- Get rid of low brick walls to discourage
transients
- Put pyramid-shaped brick and plastic spikes on
window ledges
- Put attractive paper in windows of unoccupied
shops
- Construct control centre to block balcony and
"meat market"
- Get rid of benches
- Put in flip seats
- Use technology and design to get rid of phone
hustlers
- Locate information kiosks at doors
- Keep sex magazines out of sight
- Set up house phones for emergency,
information, redcaps
- Set up new public address system
- Use legal powers to evict transients
- Use programs to offer alternative services to
transients
- Hire co-ordinator for transient services
- Bring police and social workers together on
transient problem
- Train police in dealing with transients
- Increase supervision of police officers
dealing with transients
- Strengthen communication between police and
business tenants
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E. Improve retailing |
- Bring in chain retailers
- Bring in better retail management
- Provide fax machine to retail tenants
- Redesign space specifically for retailers
- Replace restaurants which house hustlers with
a benign tenant
- Get rid of management which let people sleep
in bowling alley
- Close the betting shop
- Do not welcome hard-drinkers in bowling alley
bar
- Remove violent video games
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