Joy Armstrong
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Joy Armstrong
Planning agencies should work with other city agencies to ensure that occupied residential blocks with vacant and abandoned houses have a remediation plan in place that includes low-cost treatments, such as the replacement of windows and doors in need of repair, façade cleaning, and regular trash removal.
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housi
... See moreThe study highlighted that improving compliance with Philadelphia ordinances to remediate abandoned housing could make a noticeable difference in disrepair in neighborhoods and contribute to improved public safety.
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety
Changing the environment through initiatives that enhance public spaces, such as installing streetlights, fixing broken sidewalks, cleaning up vacant lots or opening community gardens help promote public safety. These are examples of built environment changes that help improve factors that contribute to violence and methods for primary prevention,
... See more“The idea is to create land use that reduces opportunities for negative things to occur, increases opportunities for positive things to occur— social capital, busy streets with businesses and vitality, employment and economic development,” said Marc Zimmerman of the University of Michigan. “All these positive things replace the negative things that
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Randomized control trials on abandoned housing remediation in Philadelphia found that low-cost interventions—like replacing windows and doors—significantly reduced gun violence and visual disorder. His research emphasizes the role of the built environment in shaping community wellbeing.
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Publi
... See moreBuilt environment for community safety
Built environment intervention
Planners should pilot-test place-based changes to the built environment that can help economically disadvantaged communities abate problems of physical disorder that arise from vacant and blighted spaces.
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety
Decisions about how land is used, by whom, and for what purposes hold immense potential to prevent violence. Yet, despite the connection between land use and community safety, land use decisions are rarely made with violence prevention in mind.
Community Safety by Design: Preventing Violence through Land Use
A research partnership between planners, community residents, local nonprofit service providers, and city agencies could help advance the science of place-based changes in a way that is useful for communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety