A safety audit measures the safety of 36 exterior attributes of properties and streets in a low-density\nresidential neighbourhood in terms of four principles of modern crime prevention through\nenvironmental design, namely, territoriality, natural surveillance, activity support and access\ncontrol. Eighty-three residents have walked around each of their small neighbourhoods, and audited\nthe safeties of its area, individual private properties, and adjacent area in daylight; and the\nsafeties of its area, properties, and exterior lighting in darkness. Findings are that older-urban\nneighbourhoods� overall safety percentages and attribute safeties in daylight and darkness were\nconsistently lower than those in newer suburban, rural or small-town ones; and frequently lower\nthan those in newer-urban neighbourhoods, or older suburban, rural or small-town ones. Recommendations\nare about improving 12 less safe or unsafe attributes by means of physical planning\nand environmental design. Also having identified those attributes, we speculate about replicating\nthe safety audit via online Street Views of existing Canadian neighbourhoods.
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