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Kids walking home from school have insights into neighborhood design
Tridib Banerjee & JungA Uhm & Deepak Bahl, "Walking to School: The Experience of Children in Inner City Los Angeles and Implications for Policy," Jour...
October 20, 2023Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: overview of history and future outlook
Paul Cozens & Terrence Love, "A Review and Current Status of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)," Journal of Planning Literature 30...
October 20, 2023Crime and the projects: disproving negative anecdotal evidence about project-based subsidized housing
Ayoung Woo and Kenneth Joh, "Beyond anecdotal evidence: Do subsidized housing development increase neighborhood crime?" Applied Geography 64 (2015) ...
October 20, 2023Built form affects perceived safety
Chester Harvey et. al, "Effects of skeletal streetscape design on perceived safety,"Urban Landscape and Urban Planning 142 (2015): 1 Abstract: It i...
October 20, 2023A Tree Grows in Portland: the relationship between trees and crime
Geoffrey Donovan and Jeffrey Prestemon, "The Effect of Trees on Crime in Portland, Oregon," Environment and Behavior 44 (2012): 1 The take-away: Re...
October 20, 2023A Tale of Two Burglaries: different factors lead to daytime and nighttime burglary
Lorena Montoya and Marianne Junger and Yfke Ongena, "The Relation Between Residential Property and Its Surroundings and Day- and Night-Time Residentia...
October 20, 2023Why urbanists need to think bigger
Austin Williams, "What is a City?" Architectural Design 82 (2012): 1 The take-away: For Williams, urban practitioners are far too quick to dissolve...
October 20, 2023Why urbanists need to plan small
Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout, "Make No Big Plans," Architectural Design 82 (2012): 5 The take-away: Given the prevailing relationship ...
October 20, 2023Why do liberals like compact development more than conservatives do?
Paul Lewis, "Moral Intutions and Smart Growth: Why do Liberals and Conservatives view compact development so differently?", Journal of Urban Affairs 3...
October 20, 2023Where does face-to-face interaction happen?
Steven Farber adn Tijs Neutens and Juan-Antonio Carrasco and Carolina Rojas, "Social Interaction Potential and the Spatial Distribution of Face-to-Fac...
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