# Walkable, Green Neighborhoods Key to Safer Future Cities

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/06/walkable-green-neighborhoods-key-to-safer-future/
- Published: 2020-06-26T22:38:28-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

By: Michael Keller / Some good news for the burgeoning population of urbanites around
the world. Walkable and green [neighborhoods](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/12/epa-raises-awareness-of-lead-paint-rules-in-philadelphia/)
are safer streets with less crime. They therefore won’t require huge investments
in [new technologies](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/03/neighbor-energy-challenge-saving-energy-together/).
Instead, urban planners and researchers say that controlling crime in the future
means looking to the past and up into the trees.

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“We need to make our urban spaces walkable again,” says Dr. Jack Nasar, a professor
of city and regional planning and editor of the _Journal of Planning Literature_
at The Ohio State University. “In terms of safety—people living [together](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/03/neighbor-to-neighbor-lighting-program-launch-exclusive-video/).
They know who belongs, and they’re more likely to interact with each other and build
a sense of community. Get people back out onto the street.“

#### Walkable Cities

![UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE RISING IT'S FIRST GREEN BUILDING!](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.
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Walkable communities

But more effective and visible policing requires cities to walk a thin line. Especially
where a police presence can deter crimes but too many can actually increase the 
perception of menace. Then and only then citizens feel under threat

“Crime is complex and its relationship to the environment even more so,” Roberts
says. “I think a crime free city is impossible to imagine, because human beings 
are frail, make mistakes and do bad things.”

#### There are several measures cities can take to either prevent crimes or resolve them. You know, once they’ve happened. But, she cautions, many are unattractive as solutions.

![](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pexels-photo-
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While cities are currently deploying closed-circuit television cameras in crime-
ridden areas, the evidence has not yet proven that they deter offenses, though they
can help catch perpetrators after the fact. Gating developments, storefronts and
alleys can also reduce crime but at the cost of increasing the perceived threat 
of criminality and making residents feel isolated.

Digital mapping and GPS are also being used to analyze the locations, times and 
types of crimes to give authorities better information to increase policing, gate
alleyways and conduct other prevention programs.

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