How Urban Planners Can Encourage ‘Vibrancy’ — and Create Safer Cities

There is plenty of debate about what makes one neighborhood safe, while others experience high incidences of crime. Recent Wharton research looks at the role that urban planners have to play, analyzing high resolution data about cities, such as population density or zoning, to help evaluate how efficient their built environment is in promoting "vibrancy," and to potentially guide future urban development.

"The idea is to have local initiatives and small-scale [activities] that are intended to encourage people on the street, milling about at all hours of the day and [generating] a lot of pedestrian traffic."

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