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Better urban planning can reduce crime
BY TAMARA GIGNAC OCTOBER 31, 2011
If a city could build a safe community — a place where crime is all but eliminated — what would it look like? Police and city halls have struggled with this elusive question for decades. Some aren’t sure it can even be done.
Perhaps not. But criminologist Nikki Filipuzzi insists that better urban planning decisions could dramatically break the cycle of crime in many neighbourhoods and help curb illegal activity on our streets.
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