Research of Landscape Planning and Design Strategies for Promoting Sense of Safety in the University Campus

Abstract

With the frequent occurrence of campus crimes, it has become an important and urgent research topic on how to improve the sense of safety in the university campus through the planning and design of the functions, spaces and landscapes of university campus. Previous theoretical and empirical studies have proved that such planning and design can affect users’ perception of college campus and subsequently achieve the objective of enhancing campus safety and inhibiting crimes and bad behavior. Based on relevant theories of sense of safety and the research on the factors influencing the sense of safety in China and other countries, this paper puts forward the planning and design strategies for enhancing the sense of safety from the campus location planning, space planning and design, plant landscape design, planning and design for women's low sense of safety, and safety management measures.