01/20/2026: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Designing Safer Communities: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 11am-1pm Eastern

$198.00

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a proven, evidence-based approach that leverages the built environment to reduce opportunities for crime, improve safety, and enhance quality of life. This two-hour webinar introduces planners, architects, landscape architects, and engineers to the principles and applications of CPTED, equipping professionals with strategies to design safer, more welcoming environments.

Participants will learn how CPTED principles — natural surveillance, territorial reinforcement, access control, maintenance, and activity support — can be applied across various development typologies, from residential neighborhoods and parks to commercial districts and transit systems. The session will also explore the evolving “Second Generation CPTED” framework, which integrates social cohesion, equity, and long-term resilience into safety design.

Through case studies, regulatory guidance, and interactive discussion, attendees will leave with practical tools to align CPTED strategies with their professional responsibilities for protecting public health, safety, and welfare (HSW).

Note: This is a live webinar delivered via GoToWebinar. Session instructions will be emailed to you 24-48 hours prior to the webinar and the morning of the webinar. If you have not received your instructions for any reason, please call Customer Support (1-866-546-1212) the day of the event. Webinars are live and interactive. Students will have the ability to interact with and ask questions of the presenter directly.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Define the core principles of CPTED and explain their role in creating safer and more secure environments.
Evaluate health, safety, and welfare impacts of environmental design decisions on crime risk, community trust, and public well-being. Apply CPTED strategies such as natural surveillance, access control, and territorial reinforcement to site and building design.
Analyze case studies where CPTED principles reduced crime incidents and improved community safety outcomes.
Develop approaches to integrate “Second Generation CPTED” concepts — including social cohesion and equity — into design practice.
Incorporate CPTED into interdisciplinary collaboration, ensuring alignment with codes, regulations, and community engagement processes historic significance.
Develop strategies for participatory and equitable design processes that balance stakeholder needs with cultural preservation and public welfare, ensuring a balance between these priorities.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Rumanda Young, Ph.D.

Dr. Young is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) in the state of Texas and a Certified Planner (AICP). She holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture (BLA) from the University of Arkansas, a master’s degree in city and regional planning (MCRP) with environmental planning emphasis from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and public policy. Dr. Young also spent time abroad in Cheltenham, England at the University of Gloucestershire focusing on sustainable development practices, environmental planning, and resource management.

Dr. Young has eight years of private practice experience, six of which working with the firm Carter & Burgess, Inc. She was involved in a variety of work including a wide range of park and recreational planning and design projects. Landscape Architectural experience ranges from preparation of detail site design plans, inventory and analysis documents, park, recreation and open space master plans, city-wide comprehensive plans, interpretive prospectus documents, construction document preparation, and preparation of grant applications and rezoning applications for cities throughout Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Dr. Young currently works as a Military Master Planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Branch. Dr. Young is involved in a variety of work including a wide range of military planning, programming, and design projects. Project Management experience ranges from installation design guides to campus master plans. Projects also focus on the impacts of development on human health and the environment, and improvements through better siting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of military projects.

Dr. Young is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture. She teaches master’s level landscape architecture design studio course(s).