Public safety as a democratic town planning measures results (in the context of Vilnius city)

Abstract

On the basis of Western countries practice and on the national level framed guidelines, in this article we studied the impact of cities urban structure, architecture, landscape and physical environment on public safety as one of the most important quality of life indicators. In areas of Vilnius City the environmental factors 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 authors carried out a study, which made it possible to determine the urban indicators cohesion with the safe living environment in Vilnius City case. The results showed that urban planning as a public space and architecture formation measure is an integral part of security control and prevention in the multifunctional urban environment.