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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
John M MacDonald; Charles Branas; Robert Stokes |
ISBN: | 9780691195216 0691195218 |
OCLC Number: | 1153246267 |
Description: | xv, 191 p. ill. 25 cm |
Responsibility: | John M. MacDonald, Charles C. Branas, Robert Stokes. |
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"Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology" "A great, bracing read for us cultural theorists: the authors really interrogate what evidence means in a complex ecosystem such as a city, as well as what you do with it. The case studies in the rest of the book show off examples of evidence-led interventions, all with apparently proven social benefits: they include large-scale tree planting for health in Philadelphia, light rail ridership fighting obesity in Charlotte and the use of signs in LA parks to make people exercise. The message is a simple one: with the right evidence base, you can make meaningful changes. Like London's cholera in 1854, you can cure a city of its social ills."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education Read more...

