TY - JOUR AU - Sabbir Ahmed PY - 2019/12/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - APPLICATION OF SPACE SYNTAX ANALYSIS IN LALBAGH (Exploring the Links Between Spatial Analysis and Drug Crime Pattern in Selected Streets of Lalbagh, Dhaka) JF - MIST INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JA - MIJST VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.47981/j.mijst.07(01)2019.137(%p) UR - https://mijst.mist.ac.bd/mijst/index.php/mijst/article/view/137 AB - Drug crime is an urban problem, and in Lalbagh, its occurrence is fairly common. It can nevertheless beprevented with surveillance, a feature of urban design. Spatial studies and criminology enable us to knowsignificantly about where and why crime occurs. Criminals are rational individuals and they weigh risks andopportunities. A direct correlation can thus be found between the following variables: 1. Risk & Opportunityand 2. Physical Implications of Urban Design which includes spatial attributes. The aim of this paper is toidentify the spatial attributes of a major drug crime location (Lalbagh) for helping urban planners, designersand crime control authorities to identify crime zones easily for acting “proactively” rather than “reactively”to the crime. While designing or examining neighbourhoods, for high values of Integration, Integration R=3and Integration R=10 and Connectivity of an area, we can predict that area to be less crime-prone; becausewith higher levels of movement, levels of co-presence and co-awareness are expected to be higher. Basedon this principle, selected streets of Lalbagh have been studied. Out of the other smaller streets of Lalbagh,Road 10, Shahidnagar was found to be particularly prone to criminal activities and this paper is focused onfinding out the reasons behind it, on the basis of space syntax analysis. Depthmap software has been used asa tool to analyze and explain this pattern of drug crime. ER -