Punishing people rather than improving places

August 24, 2018 4:39 PM

Eric Klinenberg writes about Philadelphia and their quest to improve places in order to reduce crime.
posted by soelo (3 comments total)

This is wonderful -- I'm grateful that we have social scientists with academic aircover to run these sorts of longitudinal studies.
posted by batter_my_heart at 1:54 AM on August 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

PHS is amazing. They pioneered the pop-up beer garden trend here, which has likewise made use of otherwise abandoned lots.
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:42 AM on August 25, 2018

Uh, wow.

“Simple treatments of abandoned buildings and vacant lots returned conservative estimates of between $5.00 and $26.00 in net benefits to taxpayers and between $79.00 and $333.00 to society at large, for every dollar invested,”

posted by lucidium at 5:04 AM on August 27, 2018