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> low-walkability car-intensive cities strongly correlate with increased street crime Do you have any links? that goes entirely against my intuition. SF is gen
by greggman3 5y ago
> low-walkability car-intensive cities strongly correlate with increased street crime
Do you have any links? that goes entirely against my intuition. SF is generally considered walkable and has high street crime. I'm pretty sure the same is true for NYC, Paris, Berlin, other highly walkable cities where as say Irvine, Brea, (E.T. like neighborhoods that require a car to do anything) have low-street crime.
Update:
The first 2 hits I found on google found higher walkability correlated with more crime
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916520921843?journalCode=eaba https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391652092184...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41284-018-00161-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41284-018-00161-7
- karpierz 5y agoThose are measuring crime within a city, not comparing cities. Though I think you're going to have a hard time separating 'walkability', and other features of old European cities.
- goodpoint 5y agoIt's a well known fact in traffic engineering. You can start from the links at the bottom of the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkability#Socioeconomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkability#Socioeconomic As the sibling poster wrote, by comparing the only walkable area in the downtown of a car-centered city you are [involuntarily] cherry-picking the populace that cannot afford a car. You have to compare whole countries.