The Quality of the Living Environment as a Result of Democratic Planning Traditions and Society Interaction: Aspect of Urban Public Security

• Authors: Jonas Jakaitis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores ways of improving urban structures of territories especially from the aspect of urban public security. The investigation is based on theoretical principles and existing practices. Implementing the principles of sustainable development in the conditions of public participation and cooperation with local authorities, residents of the cities and towns can be successfully integrated into a modern, well-designed, safe public urban space.

Keywords

EN

Urban space security; local community; quality of life

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Architecture and Urban Planning
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-38

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-03

Contributors

author

Jonas Jakaitis

• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio ave. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania; Pylimo str. 26/1, LT-03227 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: [e-mail]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/aup-2015-0005