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      • NEW YORK - HARLEM (2025) - COMPLETED
      • NEW YORK - BRONX (2024) - COMPLETED
      • NEW YORK - QUEENS (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE - BALTIMORE POLICE CLASS #2 (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE - BALTIMORE POLICE CLASS #1 (2024) - COMPLETED
      • MADISON (2024) - COMPLETED
      • SASKATOON (2024) - COMPLETED
      • VANCOUVER (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE (2024) - COMPLETED

RECOMMENDED READINGS


  • URBAN STUDIES
  • ACADEMIC CRIMINOLOGY
  • CRIME PREVENTION
  • PROXEMICS & BUILDING NEIGHBORHOODS
  • CULTURAL & SOCIAL STORIES
  • STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE AGENTS
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  • Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs
  • The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the life of Italian-Americans (1962) - Herbert J. Gans
  • Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (1967) - J. R. Seeley, R. A. Sim and E. W. Loosely
  • A Walden Two Experiment: The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community (1972) - Kathleen Kindade
  • Good City Form (1981) - Kevin Lynch
  • CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves (1988) - Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
  • Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns (1991) - Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
  • Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (2000) - Andres Duany, Elisabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
  • Who’s Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (2009) - Richard Florida
  • Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (2000) - Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio
  • The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart (2008) - Bill Bishop
  • What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (2010) - Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynn Elisabeth 
  • Great American Cities: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2011) - Robert J. Sampson
  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (2013) - Charles Montgomery
  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (2014) - Anthony M. Townsend
  • Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs (2016) - Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring
  • SafeGrowth: Building Neighborhoods of Safety and Livability (2018) - Gregory Saville and SafeGrowth team
  • Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang (1955) - Albert K. Cohen
  • Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs (1960) - Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin
  • Ideology and Crime: A Study of Crime in its Social and Historical Context (1965) - Leon Radzinowicz
  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (1971) - C. Ray Jeffery
  • ​Crime, A Spatial Perspective (1980) - Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie and Keith D. Harries 
  • Environmental Criminology (1981) - Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham
  • Human Ecology (1981) - Amos H. Hawley
  • The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending (1986) - Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke
  • Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing (1990) - Malcolm K. Sparrow, Mark H. Moore, and David M. Kennedy
  • Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods (1990) - Wesley G. Skogan
  • Problem-Oriented Policing (1990) - Herman Goldstein
  • The Better Angels of our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (2011) - Steven Pinker
  • Place Matters: Criminology for the 21st Century (2016) - David Weisburd, John E. Eck, and Anthony A. Braga
  • Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design (1972) - Oscar Newman
  • Community of Interest (1980) - Oscar Newman
  • Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary (1991) - Paul F. Cromwell, James N. Olson and D. Aunn Wester Avary
  • Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (1992) - Ronald V. Clark
  • Preventing Violence (2001) - James Gilligan
  • Less Law, More Order: The Truth About Reducing Crime (2008) - Irvin Waller
  • Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America (2011) - David M. Kennedy
  • The Territorial Imperative (1966) - Robert Ardrey
  • Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design (1969) - Robert Sommer
  • ​The Hidden Dimension (1969) - Edward T. Hall
  • City: Rediscovering the Center (1988) - William H. Whyte
  • The City After the Automobile (1997) - Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn
  • Neigbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way (2004) - Jim Diers
  • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (2012) - Jeff Speck
  • Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1974) - E. F. Schumacher
  • Oath of Fealty (1981) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  • The Chalice and the Blade (1987) - Riane Eisler
  • Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (1995) - Alvin and Heidi Toffler
  • Bowling Alone (2000) - Robert D. Putnam
  • Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) - Mark Kurlansky
  • A History of the Future (2008) - Donna Goodman
  • Mindfulness (1989) - Ellen J. Langer
  • Emotional Intelligence (1995) - Daniel Goleman
  • The Golem: What You Should Know about Science - 2nd edition (1998) - Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
  • Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999) - Howard Gardner
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (2001) - Paul Edman
  • Primal Leadership (2002) - Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatwzis, and Anne McKee
  • The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of Leadership (2004) - David R. Caruso and Peter Salvoes
  • The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of an Audience (2010) - Carmine Gallo

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  • HOME
  • WHO WE ARE
    • SAFEGROWTH NETWORK
    • SAFEGROWTH MOVEMENT
    • FRIENDS OF SAFEGROWTH
    • LIKEMINDED
  • WHAT WE DO
    • FOUR PHASES
    • SAFEGROWTH & LIVABILITY ACADEMY TRAINING >
      • Past SafeGrowth & Livability Academy projects
    • TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE & CRIME PREVENTION
    • CONSULTING & ADVISING
    • SUMMITS & SEARCH CONFERENCES
  • ABOUT SAFEGROWTH
    • History
    • Method & Philosophy
    • Theory
    • What makes great neighborhoods
  • RESOURCES
    • VIDEOS
    • Publications
    • SafeGrowth documents
    • TED-Ed tutorials >
      • SafeGrowth - Crime & the 21st Century City
      • Vision-Based Asset Mapping
    • Recommended readings
    • Press
    • SafeGrowth language
  • BOOKS
    • Building neighborhoods of safety & livability
    • Hope rises (awaiting publishing)
  • BLOG
  • PODCAST
  • TOOLKIT (PASSWORD ACCESS)
    • SAFEGROWTH RISK ASSESSMENT FOR NEIGHBORHOODS >
      • SAFEGROWTH RISK ASSESSMENT MATRIX
      • RISK ASSESSMENT CATEGORIES
      • 5 Steps & Report guidance >
        • Report structure
        • Sample reports
      • Readings for download
      • Glossary
    • Notes for SafeGrowth teams >
      • NEW YORK - HARLEM (2025) - COMPLETED
      • NEW YORK - BRONX (2024) - COMPLETED
      • NEW YORK - QUEENS (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE - BALTIMORE POLICE CLASS #2 (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE - BALTIMORE POLICE CLASS #1 (2024) - COMPLETED
      • MADISON (2024) - COMPLETED
      • SASKATOON (2024) - COMPLETED
      • VANCOUVER (2024) - COMPLETED
      • BALTIMORE (2024) - COMPLETED