Spatial and Temporal Comparison of Safety Perception in Urban Spaces. Case Study of Olomouc, Opava and Jihlava

Pánek, Jiří; Pásztó, Vít; Šimáček, Petr

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61297-3_24

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“…The allocation of hotspots in relation to the perception of safety (Figure 3) did not provide many surprises, and the results are in accordance with the results from other fear of crime research, not only in the Czech Republic [52,57,58], but also in other countries [59][60][61]. The usual suspects are transportation hubs, in this case they are train/bus stations, urban parks (mainly during the night), shadowy narrow streets with limited public lighting and/or public spaces in close proximity to nightclubs/bars/gambling houses.…”

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Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Pánek

Ivan

Macková

2019

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The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse patterns, explore hotspots and determine the significance of respective surveys is one reason for the increase in popularity of such research topics for geographers, cartographers and spatial data scientists. This paper presents the results of an intensive online map-based questionnaire with 1551 respondents from the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The respondents marked 3792 points associated with the fear of crime over a ten week period. The perception data were compared with recorded crime data acquired from police department records for the years 2015–2018. This paper explores the spatial autocorrelation from perceived hotspots and from recorded crime hotspots. Our findings fit into the literature confirming results about the locations that most frequently attract fear, but there is still room for more investigations regarding the links between recorded crime and the fear of crime.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Ivan

Macková

2019

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“…People's perceptions of places vary depending on whether it is day or night, but they are usually perceived similarly by males and females. The four most common hot-spots mentioned in this question in Jeseník were similar to those found in research from other cities (Pánek et al 2017a, Pánek et al 2018. The most significant hot-spot, with 20% of all answers to this question, was the local bus station, followed by Smetana park (17% of answers), Liberty park (6% of answers) and the square of the heroes (4.5% of answers).…”

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“…5). Mapping perceptions of safety has been conducted in various contexts and countries, often as part of wider participatory mapping activities (Lawson et al 2013, Salesses et al 2013, Lipscomb 2014, Li et al 2015, Melas et al 2015, Traunmueller et al 2015, Pánek et al 2017a, Pánek et al 2018. These researchers tend to describe the perception of safety as being linked with built-up areas, and that people's memories of a place last much longer than the real danger of criminality in various locations.…”

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Participatory Mapping in Community Participation – Case Study of Jeseník, Czech Republic

Pánek

2018

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Community participation has entered the 21st century and the era of e-participation, e-government and e-planning. With the opportunity to use Public Participation Support Systems, Computer-Aided Web Interviews and crowdsourcing mapping platforms, citizens are equipped with the tools to have their voices heard. This paper presents a case study of the deployment of such an online mapping platform in Jeseník, Czech Republic. In total, 533 respondents took part in the online mapping survey, which included six spatial questions. Respondents marked 4,714 points and added 1,538 comments to these points. The main aim of the research was to find whether there were any significant differences in the answers from selected groups (age, gender, home location) of respondents. The results show largest differences in answers of various (below 20 and above 20 year) age groups. Nevertheless further statistical examination would be needed to confirm the visual comparison.

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“…Nevertheless, some municipalities used the results of the mapping workshops as a preliminary study and employed the data in SWOT analysis, strategic planning analysis, and other applications. If the workshop subject was more specific, such as safety mapping (Pánek, Pászto, and Marek 2017;Pánek, Pászto, and Šimáček 2018), neighbourhood revitalisation , air pollution , or bicycle infrastructure (Pánek and Benediktsson 2017), the results were often used for white papers, policy papers, or urban studies.…”

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Emotional Maps: Participatory Crowdsourcing of Citizens´ Perceptions of Their Urban Environment

Pánek¹

2018

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Public participation and civic engagement in the urban planning process are societal trends that stretch across countries, cultures, and classes. After decades of communist regimes in the Eastern Bloc, where there was basically no civic participation, civic society in the Czech Republic began to engage in discussions with the authorities, and citizens became more active in local planning. In 1994 eleven municipalities started the Network of Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic as a platform for sharing good practices in sustainable development and local participation. In the last three years, members of the Network have used emotional mapping activities to facilitate and improve the process of participatory planning. This paper describes the timeline of development and the deployment of an emotional mapping methodology in various workshops in the Healthy Cities network. A total of forty-six emotional mapping workshops were organised in thirty-five municipalities of the Czech Republic. The paper presents the change from crayon-based maps to digital web-mapping platforms; and presents a case study of the Prague 12 district, where emotional mapping workshops were used to explore the perception of safety, among other issues.

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Spatial and Temporal Comparison of Safety Perception in Urban Spaces. Case Study of Olomouc, Opava and Jihlava

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Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Participatory Mapping in Community Participation – Case Study of Jeseník, Czech Republic

Emotional Maps: Participatory Crowdsourcing of Citizens´ Perceptions of Their Urban Environment

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