Imagine needing a study to find that an active, trusting community has less "crime".
Lol, this is like all those health articles that attribute some miraculous life-extending property to a certain food when in reality its because only rich people eat it and rich people have higher life expectancies.
it's like "international community same map" except with health outcomes
"Beluga caviar consumption linked with longer lifespan"
:shocked-pikachu:
'A glass of red wine a night is totally good for your health though'
So walkable communities and lots of foot traffic lower crime rates as urbanists have been saying for 50 years? Why do they have to push dog owners into it? Do americans only walk with dogs?
Yes to that last part. You only get to walk if you have a dog and you only get breaks if you're a smoker.
It's my own damn fault for starting smoking but damn if retail work didn't hammer it in and make those daily breaks part of my routine.
Why do they have to push dog owners into it?
Feels like a... uh... dog whistle, suggesting that large scary dogs patrolling the neighborhood are frightening off Super predators
Or maybe they just don't want to consider that maybe people shouldn't live in suburbs and drive everywhere lol
The suburbs are where the housing is cheapest, rofl. But pay outside the business centers isn't great, lmao.
By suburbs i mean the concept that became popular in the early 20th century on the anglophone world specially among the elite back then like big lawns, far away from the poors of the cities, etc.
In Latin America the suburban region is densily populated and has a lot of mixed use occupation and is very working class.
this has been known since like, the 30's.
active community that knows each other = high rates of informal surveillance = reduced crime; this is basic social disorganization theory. atomization makes this pretty hard to achieve unless you're in a wealthy area, unfortunately.
I remember people being mad on twitter over an academic article that said that dogs where a sign of white supremacy or something.
It was about how white people in US are more likely to have dogs and they use dog related activities to socialize in a way that excludes POC, I think.
my street had a block party for the 4th. my partner baked cookies, which i brought over to the 20-30 people a few houses up. nobody looked at me, i had to interrupt a conversation to ask where to put the cookies, and once i put them down, nobody continued to acknowledge me until i felt too awkward standing alone so i left. i'm not gonna stop anyone breaking into your houses now and i want my tupperware back.
American culture creates the awkward personal encounter.
Most people spend their days playing the role at work of agreeable, compliant and guffawing stiffs, then spend their free time watching tv and buying cheap disposable crap (without stopping to pause to consider most of it’s been made by child slave labor in SE Asia) to fill up their attics and garages to fill the void in their empty lives with consumerism.
It’s almost as if the whole modern world has been constructed this way so that in our alienation we never seek to find or express commonality with our neighbors, so that no class bonds or solidarity has a chance to develop. Instead, we have Keeping Up with the Joneses status-seeking and envy of what others have.
It’s a weird, pitiful culture here. We’ve made a whole society of stunted adolescents who haven’t learned how to express themselves or trust in humanity, where instead of acknowledging universal truths we speak in the language and touchstones of media sensationalism, sports and advertisements.
I blame the host. for that kind of event you need someone who notices when new people arrive
Was just talking with my bf the other day about how few people go on walks in our neighborhood. Like I think it's a nice neighborhood, and relatively walkable! (For the USA).
We have to take the dogs out regularly but we don't ever see anyone else from our block ever walking around.
It's wild to think how lovely the neighborhood would be if even 50% of us walked around regularly.
I see people "walking" their dogs by fucking driving their car with a leash out the window all the fucking time here. My neighbourhood is just weird though.
This is in Canada, my neighbours are just freaks. Imagine a small, rural town filled with nothing but crunchy environmentalists under 35, and 10,000 carbon copies of Red Green
