Applying A Digital Approach For Detecting Potential Crime Hot Spots In Urban Planning Designs. Case Study: New Urban Pole “mohammed Issami”, Biskra, Algeria

Abstract

In this study, we follow the visibility approach that was developed by the Laboratory of Space Syntax, UCL (University College London). This approach provided a sense of the link between the space design and its positive or negative social consequences in the future. After analyzing a central urban neighborhood of the New Urban Pole of Biskra “Mohammed Issami”, basing on Depthmap, we found 33 hot spots that can be considered appropriate spaces for exercising crime in the future. We also found that this type of advance evaluation was not considered in the urban planning designs before the execution.