Property Crime Rates Are Highest In These US Cities | Digg

“We often forget that the country as a whole offered abundance in the form of fuel resources, mineral resources, bumper crops, industrial capacity, and the like, and provided the city as a locus for the transformation of this abundance into mobility,” Potter reminded his readers in People of Plenty. “More Americans have changed their status by movi

For the first time in U.S. history, more poor people live in suburbs than in cities.2

An entire chapter, “Crime Side Retailing,” could be written because that’s how I spent half of my time: dealing with crime with before-the-fact controls, and after-the-fact with detection and action.

The cities with the most congestion are often the cities that provide the best alternatives to being stuck in congestion. Of the ten cities ranked worst for traffic in the 2010 Urban Mobility Report,18 all but three—Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta—have excellent public transit and a vast collection of walkable neighborhoods. Indeed, these seven cities

When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was famously asked why he chose such a vocation, he was reported to reply, “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” This logic holds true for many types of crime: it happens because it is more or less likely based on the opportunity structure. As place is a prime element of that opportunity structure, it