ND-0683 · 2001 · Other
Environment and Crime in the Inner City: Does Vegetation Reduce Crime?
Kuo FE, Sullivan WC. Environment and Behavior. 2001.
doi.org/10.1177/00139160121973025 · Finding checked against the abstract
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What the source reports
Across 98 inner-city apartment buildings whose residents were assigned to them at random, the greener a building's surroundings, the fewer property and violent crimes were reported.
Design questions and applications
Plant around housing.
Field
Form, use and behaviour
Notes and follow-up
Added from the Corpus Desk (card kuo-2001-crime) on 2026-11-09; the card finding was rewritten from the abstract. Evidence strength and translation distance not yet rated. WELL label held for review.
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