Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense

Recent wars show that enemies in war situations did not always observe international laws or conventions such that cities and their inhabitants were under threats of demolition and destruction. Today, countries which experienced such demolition and destruction would have to pay special attention t...

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Main Author: Shakibamanesh, Amir
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015
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description Recent wars show that enemies in war situations did not always observe international laws or conventions such that cities and their inhabitants were under threats of demolition and destruction. Today, countries which experienced such demolition and destruction would have to pay special attention to passive defense strategies in order to maintain their national capital and vital recourses. Passive defense considerations in urban planning and design may help in reducing damages of cities and the loss of life and property while at the same time enhancing the thresholds of citizen resistance in attack situations and facilitating city crisis management. Urban shelters thus have an important role to play in protecting people against enemy aggressions and should thus be considered as an effective security measure. This article examines some passive defense strategic considerations in the designing and planning of urban shelters, in particular, for countries which have critically strategic and sensitive locations and are prone to threats by covetous expansionist powers.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:92192016-12-14T06:49:19Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9219/ Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense Shakibamanesh, Amir Recent wars show that enemies in war situations did not always observe international laws or conventions such that cities and their inhabitants were under threats of demolition and destruction. Today, countries which experienced such demolition and destruction would have to pay special attention to passive defense strategies in order to maintain their national capital and vital recourses. Passive defense considerations in urban planning and design may help in reducing damages of cities and the loss of life and property while at the same time enhancing the thresholds of citizen resistance in attack situations and facilitating city crisis management. Urban shelters thus have an important role to play in protecting people against enemy aggressions and should thus be considered as an effective security measure. This article examines some passive defense strategic considerations in the designing and planning of urban shelters, in particular, for countries which have critically strategic and sensitive locations and are prone to threats by covetous expansionist powers. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9219/1/1x.geografia-mac15-amir-bi-edam.pdf Shakibamanesh, Amir (2015) Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 11 (3). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2015&vol=11&issue=3&ver=loc
spellingShingle Shakibamanesh, Amir
Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title_full Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title_fullStr Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title_full_unstemmed Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title_short Public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
title_sort public shelters: towards secure urban planning and designing in terms of passive defense
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