CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (CPTED) IN THE DESIGN OF AN AIRPORT BUILDING UMUERI, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

NNATUANYA, MICHAEL CHIGOZIE and Covenant University, Theses (2019) CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (CPTED) IN THE DESIGN OF AN AIRPORT BUILDING UMUERI, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA. Masters thesis, COVENANT UNIVERSITY.

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Abstract

The September 11 incident following the hijacking of commercial airliners by terrorists, attacking the WorldxTrade Centre and the Pentagonxin the United States, several parts of aviation security have undergone series of reviews in the line to avoid such devastating incident from reoccurring in the future and keeping the airline users and the public at large to feel safe and secure. Airports are faced with the challenges of crime, thereby decreasing the will of users to feel safe within its environment. Several studies have evaluated CPTED principles and have shown the application of CPTED principles in reducing crime in the built environment. As a result of these troubling issues in the aviation industry the principles of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is been evaluated on how to improve security and safety within the airport environment. Going by this premise the aim of this research is to design an airport in Umuleri, Anambra State, Nigeria, that applies the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) to improve safety within the airport environment for air travellers, their properties and the airport users in general. The research was carried out to address airport design configuration factoring security and safety measures from the conceptual stage down through the design and the construction stage in the literature, the principles of CPTED adopted in Nigerian airports and also the awareness of these principles by the airport users in general including airport staff and airport passengers, in achieving the objectives of this research, a mixed method of research was adopted.The research methods adopted are both quantitative and qualitative. The data collected in this research to address the objectives of this study were done though reviews of literatures, case studies of selected airports, structured interviews and questionnaires. The data obtained were analyzed with a combination of content analysis and SPSS statistical package, descriptive statistics and graphical illustration of data were used for result presentations. The results from the survey showed that the general users of the airport environment are more aware of surveillance and access control principle than the territoriality principle which could help in reducing the risk of criminals operating within the airport environment. The study further shows proper planning and implementation of CPTED principles from the design stage would influence the material selections, landscaping approach and general spatial relationship of an airport

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Airport, Crime, CPTED, Safety, Security, User’s perception
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment
Depositing User:	Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited:	23 Jun 2020 17:37
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2020 17:37
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/13411

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