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Issue 12
What Makes Cities Tick
Vital City at Three
Setting the Stage
Safety
Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job?
Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel
Social Control Works: Lessons for Criminal Justice Reformers
John MacDonald
20 Strategies for Reducing Crime in Cities
John K. Roman
‘A Confusing Mess’: How New York's Bail Laws Look from the Bench
Vital City
To Prevent Crime, Respect the Role of Self-Control
Alex R. Piquero
Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely and All of Us In Between
Brandon del Pozo
Governance
The Failures of Urban Governance
David Schleicher
The Local Government Staffers We Need and Deserve
Caitlin Lewis and Grace Rauh
Can Eric Adams Govern Without a Government?
Elizabeth Glazer
The Eric Adams Indictment: A Tragedy in Two Dimensions
Josh Greenman
What’s Race Got to Do With It?
Errol Louis
Place
Jane Jacobs 2.0: Training AI to Make Cities More Humane
Edward Glaeser and Carlo Ratti
City Beautiful, City Ugly
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Pandemic New York: Stilled or Riotous?
Nicole Gelinas
Everyone Into the Pool
Julie Sandorf
Culture
New York Times to New York: Drop Dead
Harry Siegel
The Problem with the ‘Criminal Legal System’
Greg Berman
Rethinking the Role of Nonprofits in Progressive Policy and Urban Governance
Michael Lind
Once Hotbeds of Hip-Hop, Now Forgotten Spaces
Miles Marshall Lewis
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