The safety perception of the built environment, rather than the sheer number of crimes and
incivility behavior, is a fundamental driver of public policies intended to improve urban …

Volumes of research show that people in different geographic regions differ psychologically.
Most of that work converges on the conclusion that there are geographic differences in …

Concerns that small firms encounter credit constraints are well entrenched in the literature,
despite widespread empirical evidence that a relatively small proportion of small firms have …

Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas,
but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and …

In 2009, Sweden experienced a wave of urban unrest concentrated in areas with large
foreign-born populations. This episode was seen by many as reflecting a trend towards …

Our knowledge about what happens to housing values when properties are close to places
with high concentrations of crime, often called 'hot spots', is limited. Previous research …

In countries with insufficient investments in infrastructure and weak environmental
governance, oil leakage from pipelines often occurs as a result of poor management and …

Вандализм, сегодня, безусловно, острая социальная, экономическая, правовая,
политическая проблема, но многочисленные проявления данной проблемы стали …

Several techniques and tools have been proposed for the automatic generation of test
cases. Usually, these tools are evaluated in terms of fault-revealing or coverage capability …

Urban experts have long recognised crime and fear of crime as dominant challenges to
sustainable cities. A sustainable community is a place free from the fear of crime, where a …