Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear.

ABSTRACT: Vacant and blighted urban land is a widespread and potentially risky environmental condition encountered by millions of people on a daily basis. About 15% of the land in US cities is deemed vacant or abandoned, an area roughly the size of Switzerland. In a citywide cluster randomized controlled trial, we investigated the effects of standardized, reproducible interventions that restore vacant land on the commission of violence, crime, and the perceptions of fear and safety. Quantitative and ethnographic analyses were included in a mixed-methods approach to more fully test and explicate our findings. A total of 541 randomly sampled vacant lots were randomly assigned into treatment and control study arms; outcomes from police and 445 randomly sampled participants were analyzed over a 38-month

SUBMITTER: Branas CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5866574 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature