Planned communities like City of Irvine and “Planned Unit Development” in U. S. A. have been provided with strategic site plannings and landscape architectural approaches to create good sense of security. Neighborhood characters from those attract and assure people who want to have quality of life and livable place. Also, “The New Urbanism” planning methods provide better implementations those create diversity, walk-ability, compactness and make visible “the third place” where people's gathering spaces with a sense of security into the new and redeveloped town. Those approaches mostly fit the crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). In another hand, “Neighborhood Watch” type of social practices has been done many cites and communities. Therefore, we could learn from American good practices and think about Japanese real estate industry needs to take more holistic approach and restructure some principals and methods of visioning, valuing and selling process with a sense of security to overcome the crime increase situation in Japan.
