Taking safety into account in urban development: challenges and methodology

How can urban development meet the population's demand for safety and what solutions can be offered to urban development professionals faced with problems of insecurity ?
What alternative ways are there of improving safety to methods that threaten the continuity of the urban fabric and how can one go beyond a purely technical vision of this geared solely to protecting public spaces ? In other words, how can we reconcile urban quality with safety and security ?

After analysing foreign and French experiences, IAU île-de-France here sets out some
topics for discussion and presents a methodology aimed at encouraging and helping those involved in urban development to consider safety as being part of their work.