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The Power of Cooperatives: Nathan Schneider & Jason Wiener at The Harvard Law Forum
youtube.comAre Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
Oscar Newman’s 1972 book Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design is widely credited for illustrating how the design of public housing influenced criminal opportunity.18 Newman focused his case studies on NYC public housing complexes, where, he pointed out, robbery rates were much greater in high-rise buildings, even when the actual
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
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 moreCredentials and money are not antidotes to the lingering effects of childhood maltreatment.