| Abstract [eng] |
The lack of researches, concentrating on identifying urban features that can be associated with target selection by terrorists, determined thesis overriding question and goal, identify environmental security design elements, as well as spatial urban structures that can possible influence choice of places for terror attacks. To accomplish main goal, some prerequisite goals have been taken into account. Initially, a brief history of terrorism and anti-terrorism design with number of examples and cases have been analyzed and assessed, where some sophisticated security design principles have been highlighted. For humanizing ant-terrorism design elements, crime prevention strategies have been explored, ending with a basic principle of urban and civic design. Second Chapter of a thesis, researches environmental design factors and spatial urban structures that may influence the choice of places for terror attacks. Findings have reviled the chance of terror attack is high when ‘site has a direct access to the main street’; when ‘there are multiple entrances and exits to and from the site’; when ‘site is well-used’; when ‘public and private activities are separated’; when ‘many same functional buildings are redistributed in a surrounding area’; when ‘site has a direct access to the city center’. On the contrary, chance of terror attack is low when ‘vehicle access point to the building is minimalized’; when ‘medical institution is presented nearby the site’ when ‘Access to private and public space is clearly defined’. Research also pointed out that, globally integrated roads turning sites into a vulnerable and attractive target for terrorists. Final Chapter of thesis, describes experimental project that has a theoretical, as well as field research results background, implemented into Tbilisi railway station and its surrounded site. Proposed design solutions show that security design can be transparent or in better case even invisible to public eyes. A thesis proposes that cooperation between security design and good urban design will turn existing railway station into a desirable and at the same time safe public space for the city. |
