In formulating strategies with our clients to improve their communities and buildings a lack of feeling safe on the street is a reoccurring problem statement. One of the major impediments to successful neighborhood development has been crime or the perception of crime. Lending institutions have used issues such as crime as a factor in divestment in certain neighborhoods. Developers have also cited crime or the perception of crime as a reason for not developing in certain communities. It has been our goal to help reduce the perception and the opportunity for crime by alteration of the physical environment. Our commitment to the successful implementation of neighborhood revitalization projects has prompted us make CPTED a proactive process in our work. Since 1995 this Studio has provided urban safety analysis and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) as part of our comprehensive services.

• Safety

  M. von Nkosi has been working in the field of community development and redevelopment since the early-1990's. Since 1993 he has made MXD one of a few urban design firms that specializes in urban safety. He has overseen the completion of a number of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) projects in multiple jurisdictions in metro Atlanta, Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina. Von is a second-generation architect and formed MXD as an independent consulting firm in 1992 in order to bring some of the best…
  

  
  
  
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