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Although the feeling of safety contributes crucially to the quality of life, streets of Bangladesh have become very unsafe and become a major domain for urban crime. In this regard,various authorities are playing their role.In such circumstances, it is high time for the professionals to play their respective roles. Thus decision makers in the city councils as well as the citizens themselves think about strategies to make life in cities safer. Authorities must follow a legal mandate to guarantee public safety as a public good. But, what is planners´ role and how can physical planning elements be used as a tool in this case? This paper tries to find answer & to show the relationship between the physical environment elements and the crime and how it creates opportunity for the crime. And this paper has recommend some measures which are not solely about crime prevention but about making streets safer for the citizen. In fact this paper is an initiative to give planners some food for thought to ensure their participation in street crime prevention and to provoke the decision maker about the effectiveness of planning tools in this regard.

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Muhammad Rashidul Hasan is a Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor in URP degree from Khulna University.He participate in various national seminars and has a number of publications to his credit. He is a member of Bangladesh Institute of planners.

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