JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REVIEWS ISSN- 2394-5125 VOL 7, ISSUE 15, 2020 3531 CPTED & LIVEABILITY: SYNERGY BETWEEN LIVEABILITY INDICES AND DIMENSIONS OF CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN MOLOOD SEIFI 1 , SYARMILA HANI HARON 2 , ALDRIN ABDULLAH 3 , MINA SEIFI 4 1 School of Built Environment, University College of Technology Sarawak 2,3,4 School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia ABSTRACT: Liveability concept is well known for improving the quality of life. Besides, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) has been proven as an effective strategy to reduce crime. Thus, there is a perception that CPTED is only employed to improve the safety feature of liveability, but in recent years, CPTED has developed beyond its basic concepts. Despite the broad spectrum of liveability indicators, it is argued that other than providing safety, CPTED dimensions might be able to fulfil some more features of liveability. However, the relationship between the individual dimensions of CPTED and concepts of liveability has rarely been explored. Hence, the present paper sought to investigate if CPTED can achieve liveability. Several kinds of literature on the subjects were reviewed to check the compatibility between various aspects of these two concepts. Also, a systematic comparison of the similar components was developed. The results of the study demonstrated that most of the measures of liveability related to peoples’ demographics are directly linked with the territoriality concept of CPTED. Besides, all the dimensions of First-Generation CPTED could contribute to features of liveability. Likewise, the Second-Generation CPTED could assist the strategies of liveability through social cohesion, community culture and connectivity. The study concludes that nearly 50% of liveability features can be achieved through dimensions of CPTED. However, this is subject to change based on different scale and time of analysis. An exact empirical study measuring both liveability and CPTED simultaneously in a single context could further confirm the results of the present study. KEY WORDS: Liveability, CPTED, Dimensions, Compatibility I. INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations population division (2018), more than half of the world’s population live in the cites and this is expected to escalate to 68% by 2050. While most of the cities are not well-planned to accommodate the additional 2.5 billion people. Besides, urban spaces are not effectively equipped to meet the needs of the residents in future. Henceforth, urbanization negatively impacts the ecosystem (Green & Baker, 2003), climate change (Grimmond, 2007), wealth (Mehta, 2000) and health of inhabitants (Moore, 2003; Turan & Besirli, 2008). The uncontrolled urbanization has reduced the individual well-being in large metropolitans (Winters & Li, 2015). Socioeconomic disparities, poverty, unemployment, and climate change occurring because of urbanization have adversely affected the well-being of the people. Many researchers believe that urbanization is also one of the underlying causes of crime (Mishra, 2015). Hence, CPTED and liveability have been developed to battle the consequences of issues related to urbanization. Liveability tool has been deployed to assess the quality of people’s lives in a place by measuring the social and physical attributes of the environment which contribute to their well-being. Namazi-Rad et al. (2012) recommended different factors of liveability in six categories with their individual features which consist of (1) home: size, affordability, quality and communication networks (2) neighbourhood: safety, attractiveness, cleanliness, friendliness, cultural diversity, (3), entertainment, (4) transport, (5) work and (6) services. Besides, concepts of CPTED namely natural surveillance, access management, territoriality, maintenance, image/management and activity support are known as effective strategies to reduce/prevent crime.