Essays on Environmental Design

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Tourism and hospitality have formed one of the world's fast growing industry and expanding at a rapid pace. It is an appealing industry that positively contributed to economic growth of developing and developed countries. The hospitality industry remains the intensive key resource of tourism, hotel such as Waldorf Astoria Beijing takes up the corporate responsibility to balance the social, economic and sustainability needs of their business as well as the communities. This hotel has been awarded Traveler's Choice Awards: - Trip Advisor in 2013 (Waldorf Astoria 2016). If these hospitality industries do not support tourism then a negative impact ...

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Potential for crime: The huge area itself presents difficulties of monitoring by police personnel to prevent crimes. Apart from the official entrances to the garden there are places on the southern side where the walls have weakened considerably over the years. There are gaps in the wall enclosure enabling anti social elements to get inside the garden without anyones's notice. Thieves,robbers and other types of criminals anyway can easily get access to the garden through the official entrances. This is because due to heavy influx of people on all days,the security personnel cannot check the credentials of ...

CPTED or Crime prevention through environmental design is the term which denotes the process of designing our environment in a particular way so as to minimize criminal activity. It advocates developing physical design features of a locality or building in a certain way that would eliminate criminal activities. This strategy focuses on the techniques that could reduce the security vulnerabilities of a particular region.

Origin of CPTED

The theory of CPTED was devised by C. Ray Jeffery, a well-known criminologist. Jeffry’s principles, which he published in 1971, initially were not received well. But later in 1971, Oscar Newman published a book called “Defensible Space: ...

Violent crimes involve the use of threats and aggressive force on the victim. Such crimes entail violence as the main idea such as in murder and where it is the goal such as in robbery. When using weapons, such crimes are termed as violent, where in most cases except rape, male are the most venerable victims of violent crimes. Classification of violent crimes in criminology is not a well agreed concept as different legal terms and constitutions are used to define various crimes differently. In United States, there are over 53 jurisdictions into violent crimes and murder (Carey, 2001).

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Please type your Institution name here LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a Green Building rating system for the construction of environmentally sustainable buildings. This was developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). The inception of LEED happened in the year 1998 and has till date encompassed more than 14000 construction projects across the United States of America and has also been introduced in more than 30 countries across the globe. The rating system of LEED has been accredited both at a national and international level as the design standard for environmentally sustainable buildings- green buildings. ...

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The Hilton Hotels & Resorts is an international chain of service hotels and resorts that is under the flagship of the Hilton Worldwide. The company has over 530 Hilton branded hotels in close to 78 countries in six continents. The Hilton Hotels has been an industry leader in the hotel industry and continues to enjoy a huge market advantage in all countries that the hotels are in operation. The company is known for its quality service and its high-end customers. The chain of hotels has heavily invested in its premises and its staff to ensure that they offer quality service to ...

The Genzyme center in all fairness and respects is one of the most articulate architectural designs of our times given its energy conservation techniques and standards. It goes without saying that it has met the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, which is a mark of all excellence and outstanding levels. Apparently, this I the highest standards of design merits any private office has ever achieved and reached. In order for a building to be awarded and acquire the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it must meet some strict criterion and standards. For instance, such a building must have a forty-two percent ...

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Delinquency is major problems in American society. Delinquency, however, is not new problems. It has plagued societies throughout history. Delinquency is among the most resistant forms of problem behavior well known. Despite best efforts by the U.S governments, society has failed to make a substantial reduction in this problem of delinquency. The understanding of delinquency and the way to prevent and treat has improved and continues to develop under the control of the Office of Delinquency prevention and Juvenile Justice. Past research shows that many delinquency factors tend to increase the threat of later delinquent behavior. Among these threat factors ...

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King Abdullah scholarship program (KASP) was established in 2010 by The Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The mission of KASP is meant to “prepare and qualify Saudi human resources in an effective manner so that they will be able to compete on an international level in the labor market and the different areas of scientific research, and thereby become an important source of supply of highly qualified individuals for Saudi universities as well as the government and private sectors” (Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia, 2011). Since its establishment, it has been ...

A designer is a person who carefully plans the look, form or even workings of a particular thing before it is build or made typically by drawing in its detail. However, this skill can be borrowed to address surrounding environmental parameters when devising programs, plans and policies or even advertisements inform of drawings and painting, in the quest to address various forms of environmental protection. According to the ancient Greeks, graphic designs were seen to be one of the most efficient ways of passing information, however this technique requires one have various techniques and tactics on design as discussed bellow. ...

In today’s world, the criminal justice system stands to benefit more from the deterrence of crime than in the actual handling of criminal cases. Lucky enough, crime specialists have a number of tools at their disposal to choose from. One of the ways to used to deter crime is through the use of criminology theories. This is inspired by the fact that criminology theories give an insight into deviant behaviour and the various reasons underlying criminal activities. Among all these theories, social disorganization theory is the most popular within the criminology circles. The social disorganization theory was born from a ...

The physical design features in crime prevention have been put across to reduce the occurrence of crime. To understand criminal psychology, one has to think like a criminal. A perfect situation for a potential offender to carry out crimes has to have some if not all of the dimensions of crime in place. This means acquiring a target, little or no risk, little or no effort and having the reward in sight. Most of the time a criminal may not be certain of the reward expected. For instance in a mugging situation, the victim may not have anything valuable on himself/ herself at that ...

and Fast-Food Restaurants and Fast-Food Restaurants This study compares situational crime prevention (SCP) strategies against robberies of convenience stores with SCP strategies used against crimes committed in fast food restaurants in and found that crime control strategies used against convenience stores cannot be applied with success to prevent robberies in fast-food restaurants. In fact, many of the target-hardening strategies documented were shown to have no significant effect on the prevention of crime in either type of industry, and those that were found to be useful in one industry tended not to work on the other. Thus, SCP ...

The author of this article which is an extract from the book ‘Nature: the source of all designs’ , Daniel Urban Kiley is an American who has been awarded many honorary titles due to his exemplary work in the modernist style of design. He began his formal career as a landscape architect in the year 1932 at Warren Manning where his interest in plant involvement in design started. He joined Harvard University in 1936 but two years later dropped out without graduating. Between 1943 and 1945, he served the United States army. He designed many buildings during his career as a soldier ...

In the field and history of architecture some works are considered as outstanding due to a number of qualities including structural and aesthetic value of their architecture. There are some architects in the history who have contributed remarkably in the field of the architecture and through their innovative ideas and several unique designs, have become an ideal for their descendant architects. One of such architect is the Sinan who is considered unanimously the greatest architecture of the ottoman architecture. This paper discusses the architecture Sinan, salient features of his designs and his contributions in the ottoman architecture. Sinan served ...

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Sony (Sony Corporation) is a Japanese consumer Electronics Company founded in 1946 by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka whose headquarters is located in Minato, Tokyo1. Sony was originated from ‘Sonus’ a Latin term for sound, and also from ‘Sonny’ an English slang for personable and smart young man. The company deals in manufacture, design, development, electronic equipment sales, instruments, and devices both for industrial and consumer markets. Sony has a wide variety of interests which range from business solutions, electronics, music, television and movies, robots, and internet service applications/ solutions. These products and services are offered globally in over 204 countries located ...