We describe an experiment with the modeling of urban verticalization effects
on perceived safety scores as obtained with computer vision on Google
Streetview data for New York City. Preliminary results suggests that for
smaller buildings (between one and seven floors), perceived safety increases
with building height, but that for high-rise buildings, perceived safety
decreases with increased height. We also determined that while height
contributing for this relation, other zonal aspects also influences the
perceived safety scores, suggesting spatial structuring also influences such
scores.Comment: 2017 SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competitio