Ali Shahdadi

Review and analysis of research conducted in Iran and in the city of BandarAbbas indicates that security feeling in communal spaces is considered as a problem and needs of citizens. This paper aims to provide a physical pattern of security feeling in BandarAbbas communal spaces is doing. Theoretical foundations of the pattern based on reviewing the physical approaches and theories in the security feeling field, especially irregular pattern, pattern vision shelter, defensible space model and a model of crime prevention through environmental design, has been formed. This experimental pattern relying on data obtained from field data collected from 290 randomly selected residents of BandarAbbas in the BandarAbbas communal spaces. Data were collected by using questionnaire. Results of multiple regression test showed: Physical factors; entrance the motorcycles into the communal spaces, the lighting, the suitability of flooring, positioned between the walls and dilapidated or abandoned buildings around the communal spaces, with a correlation coefficient (R=0.46) explain R2=0.24 of total variance of citizen’s security feeling in communal spaces.