Crime, Barbarism and Safety in Urban Spaces

This article investigates the relationship between crime and barbarism with sence safety. The hypotheses was built on Jacobs and Zukin’s theories, in this way: Barbarism has more effect on people feeling about safety and symbolic access and presence of people can increase the feeling of safety. The resaech is a testing theory one and Analysis is based on Kernel density and Chi-Square test in Cross tab. Sample size is 364 and the procedure of sampling is clustering, by 14 urban spaces as clusters. Findings & There is no strong relationship between crime, Barbarism and sence of safty But crime has effective role on presence of people in urban spaces. The results of research do not support Jacobs’s theory about the more importance role of barbarism, but they support Hiller’s theory about decreasing of safety by most high levels of activity and presence of people.