No one wants to live behind barricades and barbed wire, but everyone wants to feel safe, particularly in the wake of horrifying, unforeseeable massacres like last week’s July 14 truck attack in Nice, France. The problem is that erecting fortress-like protections is, in a way, giving into terror—it allows fear to dictate how we live. But what if cities could be secured against terror, without looking like war zones? Yours might be, already. “There are…
The secret of anti-terror architecture: Your city is probably safer than you realize
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