The elderly and how community design can promote their safety
Eric Dumbaug & Yi Zhang, "The Relationship between Community Design and Crashes Involving Older Drivers and Pedestrians," Journal of Planning Educatio...
August 12, 2024
Pedestrian safety and how planning can enhance it
Philip Stoker & Andrea Garfinkel-Castro & Meleckidzedeck Khayesi & Wilson Odero & Martin N. Mwangi & Margie Peden & Reid Ewing, "Pedestrian Safety and...
August 12, 2024
One-way or two-way? Change to two-way increases traffic, but decreases accidents, increase property values and reduces crime
William Riggs & John Gilderbloom, "Two-Way Street Conversion: Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville," Journal of Planning Education and Resea...
August 12, 2024
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...
August 12, 2024
Crime 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...
August 12, 2024
Crime 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) ...
August 12, 2024
Built 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...
August 12, 2024
A 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...
August 12, 2024
A 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...
August 12, 2024
Why 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...
August 12, 2024