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Danger zone: Land use and the geography of neighborhood crime
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In this article, the authors examined the impact of residential density and mixed land use on crime using a high-resolution dataset from Chicago over the period 2008-2013 and found that commercial uses lead to more street crime in their immediate vicinity, particularly in more walkable neighborhoods.About:
This article is published in Journal of Urban Economics.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Zoning & Land use.read more
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Reducing Crime by Shaping the Built Environment with Zoning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a study of the effect of zoning on crime using 205 blocks selected in eight different relatively high crime neighborhoods in Los Angeles that have similar demographic character-istics but different forms of zoned land use.
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Not in my backyard? Not so fast. The effect of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime
Jeffrey Brinkman,David Mok-Lamme +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime and the patterns in retail dispensary locations over time using detailed micro-level data from Denver, Colorado were studied, showing that an additional dispensary in a neighborhood leads to a reduction of 17 crimes per month per 10,000 residents, which corresponds to roughly a 19 percent decline relative to the average crime rate over the sample period.
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Gender differences in the perception of safety in public transport
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed statistical models to test for gender differences in the perception of safety and satisfaction on urban metros and buses by using large-scale unique customer satisfaction data for 28 world cities over the period 2009-2018.
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Does Local Ownership of Vacant Land Reduce Crime
Matthew Stern,T. William Lester +1 more
TL;DR: For example, urban vacancy presents myriad concerns for American legacy cities, including cyclical disinvestment, property value and tax revenue decimation, increased crime, and high management costs.
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Integrating Typhoon Destructive Potential and Social-Ecological Systems Toward Resilient Coastal Communities
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a framework integrating typhoon destructive potential and social-ecological system from a perspective of coastal resilience, where the distributional models in geographic information systems to identify the spatial hotspots of high Power Dissipation Index along the coast of Mainland China.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
TL;DR: The conditions for city diversity, the generators of diversity, and the need for mixed primary uses are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the use of small blocks for small blocks.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
TL;DR: Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.
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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
Lawrence E. Cohen,Marcus Felson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a "routine activity approach" is presented for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. But rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach, the authors concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts, and hypothesize that the dispersion of activities away from households and families increases the opportunity for crime and thus generates higher crime rates.
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Hot Spots of Predatory Crime: Routine Activities and the Criminology of Place
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used spatial data on 323,979 calls to police over all 115,000 addresses and intersections in Minneapolis over 1 year, showing that crime is both rare (only 3.6% of the city could have had a robbery with no repeat addresses) and concentrated, although the magnitude of concentration varies by offense type.
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Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy, and the spatial dynamics of urban violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine structural characteristics from the 1990 census with a survey of 8,872 Chicago residents in 1995 to predict homicide variations in 1996-1998 across 343 neighborhoods.