How can strategic environmental design, informed by community knowledge, traffic patterns and urban analysis, create spaces that actively discourage open-air sexual trafficking?

This Project introduces a novel methodology called Socio-Responsive Tactical Urbanism, a framework that synthesizes CPTED tenets, Situational Crime Prevention (SCP), the Three-D Approach, architectural analysis, and urban design with community-led interventions. The work is grounded in a comprehensive mixed-methods study—including GIS crime mapping, traffic-behavior analysis, site observation, photo coding, ethnographic fieldwork, multilingual surveys, focus groups, and collaborative design workshops.

The research shows how built conditions including; lighting gaps, tree canopy deficiencies, building frontage configurations, circulation patterns, and zoning inconsistencies, directly influence concentrations of sex trafficking and related crime.