The quality of life: research of urban secur ity aspects

Abstract

Safe living spaces are influenced by various factors such as IT development, globalization, increasing competition and the dynamics of activities aimed at developing urban architecture. Globalization created by the development of information technologies focuses on building a cosmopolitan global unsafely society, anonymous culture and architectural style in these areas the quality of life indicators are strongly impacting on identifying the size and the boundaries of the territory that community is interested in. In the context of such circumstances that the territorial communities’ zones were formed, the author carried out a study, which made it possible to determine cohesion between urban indicators and safe living environment. The goal of this article is to analyse different urban structures as objects influencing the quality of life through safe living environment interfaces. Also, to introduce urban planning measures that would reduce amount of threats to public safety. The research and statistical analysis was carried out with the aid of GIS software. The results showed that urban planning as a measure of public space and architecture formation is an integral part of security control and prevention in the multifunctional urban environment. The article gives a set of recommendations on the ways of improving methods and practices of safety living environment.