SafeGrowth

Decades of graffiti in a village underpass by Mateja Mihinjac This blog was inspired by a recent trip to my home village of 6,000 ...

Pirates of the Carribean - Exploring an underwater wreck during deep-water dives in the tourist mecca that is Barbados by Gregory Sav...

STOP ISLAMOPHOBIA - A negative graffiti tag transformed into a positive message by Mateja Mihinjac Many walls and underpasses in the ...

Attack of the bees - Toronto parking lot mural by Greg Saville In the early years of CPTED , the skateboarder was the defiler of the ...

Anna Brassard  is a Canadian urban planner and consultant specializing in SafeGrowth and urban design. Her consulting firm Brassard and As...

My architect friend Frank Stoks sent me a news clip of an emerging  graff war  in Melbourne.  Frank is a well-known CPTED expert in N...

Love locks on pedestrian bridge Among her many contributions to urban culture - especially in regards to crime - Jane Jacobs shone a li...

Graffiti how-to section in Toronto bookstore If you're going all city, don't shark or get buffed. Don't be a toy!" T...

Graffiti and murals at home together - Toronto's Annex Sometimes a successful neighborhood just grows organically with gentle nudgi...

Encouraging movement and enlightening a dark wall. Sharing street lighting ideas on Facebook recently it occurred to me how often we forget...

A plague of graffiti locusts in Victoria, BC ...and the winner of Graffiti-Mess-of-the-Year award goes to (drum roll...) Victoria, Briti...

Stencil graffiti can be annoying and funny at the same time This week I'm at the University of Sydney, Australia for a Crime and SafeG...

When is the last time you saw a freight train? When is the last time you saw a freight train without graffiti? Remember a time when freight ...

Is there a more magnificent city than Sydney, Australia? Perhaps. But not many. I've been re-visiting the land down under for a few wee...

Front "moss" wall of Tokyo's Interior Design College of the Arts I just finished reading Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest: Ho...

Hiring graffiti artists? Timely news from Montreal. Just as I blog about graffiti problems and solutions in recent months, a success story...

Philadelphia mural project My life the past week has been spent editing the newest product of the International CPTED Association (ICA). It...