Parking problem rises in the growing cities that more and more underground parking lots are built to solve this. Whether public or private buildings, 54 out of 88 parking lots that belong to Parking Mangement and Development Office,Taipei City are undergrounded. In the stats of crime in 2006, Roads and parking space were one of the top three places where crimes took place.. Therefore, we may conclude that the parking lot is one of the high risk zone for crime. In this article, we will discuss the safety of the underground parking lots in Taipei via the view of environmental prevention. Thus, we chose samples from different crime rate lots to compare the relationship between the environmental design and the crime rate. In this study, we discovered that the environmental design played an important role in the natural surveillance and territoriality of the lot. However, in Defensible Spac of Newman, more proves are needed to link prevention of crime and the surrounding together. We believe it is true that the crime rate will increase when more outsiders come in to the area but it also requires lacking of formal Surveillance or natural surveillance to have the significant increase. We suggested that with long term comparison or the design of both public and private parking lots, we would be able to understand more about the relationship between the parking lot crime and environmental prevention.

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