Structure of the knowledge base

The Securipedia wiki is structured around a number of concepts which are essential to an urban planners in order to include security consideration in his urban planning process. These concepts are graphically depicted in the figure below.

Central in the knowledge base is the object that the urban planner is developing. This object can be a single building or infrastructure, but might also entail the renovation of a complete quarter of a city. This object has to provide in certain functions, such as mobility functions for a new bridge, economic functions for a mall, social functions for a stadium or safety functions such as protection for the elements or privacy for almost all types of buildings.

The urban object is designed to fulfil these functions according to the requirements. However, the fulfilling of these requirements can be frustrated by the actions of persons who seek to do harm (threats). This is why the knowledge base will also provide information about the various types of threats, their motivation (motives) and the means they have to their disposal to succeed in their intentions.

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