PSS221 Urban Security and Resilience Tutor-marked Assignment : Enhancing Personal Security and Urban Resilience in Growing Metropolises

Tutor-Marked Assignment (TMA)

Question 1

You are a member of a city planning task force in a rapidly growing metropolitan area with a significant tourist population. The city has recently experienced an increase in incidents affecting personal security, such as street harassment, petty theft, and bag snatching. As such, there are concerns about safety in public spaces such as parks, transit stations and areas with nightlife. The municipal leadership is committed to making the urban environment safer and more resilient for all residents and visitors.

To address this, the city is launching the “Safe City Challenge”, a competition to propose innovative, practical solutions that improve personal security and promote a sense of safety in public urban spaces. You have been invited to participate in the competition to submit a proposal.

For this assignment, please choose one of the following cities as the focus of your report: Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur or Jakarta.

(a) Appraise the current state of personal security in your chosen urban area by providing an overview of the personal security situation and briefly discussing FIVE (5) important issues around personal security. (20 marks)

(b) Identify FIVE (5) key vulnerabilities and risk factors that affect personal security in high-risk areas of your chosen location. Formulate a set of FIVE (5) innovative interventions (technological, social, environmental, or policy-based) to enhance personal security and resilience in the chosen area. For each of your proposed interventions, describe how it will contribute to personal security. (40 marks)

(c) Examine the potential effectiveness and feasibility of your proposed interventions. Analyse how your plan would ensure inclusivity and accommodate vulnerable elements of the community. (30 marks)

Format of Report

Your responses should be well-researched and well-articulated. Ensure you include references. Use at least four academic sources other than the Study Guide. If AI sources are utilised, ensure proper citations and references are included. The word count is 2,000 words not including references or in-text citations. (Do not exceed or fall below the word limit by more than 10 per cent). (10 marks)

Submission

It is strongly recommended that you make an early submission to check the originality report and, if necessary, make amendments to your document for resubmission. Note that the Turnitin report is usually generated immediately after the first submission; however, subsequent reports may take up to one day to generate. Do note that Turnitin will not accept any further submissions AFTER the cut-off time. There is a 12-hour grace period after the cut-off time, which is not an extended deadline but solely meant for solving any technical problems that you may encounter while attempting to submit before the cut-off time. Please email Canvas Support immediately (with relevant screenshots and your TMA attached) and follow up with Canvas Support first thing in the morning to ensure that the problem is resolved before the grace period is over.

One late submission is allowed only if no prior submissions were made before the cut-off time. Do note that the Canvas system will automatically deduct penalty marks for every day that your assignment is late. With this automatic deduction, there will be no need to request extensions from your tutor because your tutor does not have the mandate to override the Canvas system settings. You will need to form your judgement as to how many marks you are willing to forego for each extra day that you gain to work on your assignment.

Take care to ensure that you upload the correct TMA document to the correct folder of the correct course. Requests to transfer incorrectly uploaded documents to the correct folder will require an official appeal (and an administrative fee).

Back up your assignment at all times. Once you have uploaded your assignment (in Word document format only), retain the Turnitin digital receipt as evidence of a successful submission. View your submission to ensure that the entire document has been uploaded successfully.

Plagiarism and Collusion

The assignment is to be completed on your own. Do not share your notes, draft or final TMA with anyone before the marked TMAs are returned to you.

Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words. Quotations should be used sparingly. Simply citing the source of ‘copied’ chunks of text does not excuse it from plagiarism. Do ensure that any paraphrasing is done appropriately, even if you use text from your work that you have submitted as part of another assignment for the same or another course.

The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else’s ideas as your own, or recycling of content from your own earlier marked assignment from the same course or another course) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student’s). Both are very serious academic offences. Please refer to the Student Handbook on the penalties for plagiarism or collusion. You are strongly advised to submit your assignment early, check the plagiarism report yourself, and if needed, revise and resubmit your assignment before the submission deadline.