Crime and the city: Domestic burglary and the built environment in Tehran

Habitat International

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 932-944

  Rostami Tabrizi, Lamya ^a   Madanipour, Ali ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burglaries; Crime; Defensible buildings; Tehran; Urban design

Indexed keywords

CRIME; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; TEHRAN;

EID: 33750026163     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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