(Answered) Criminal Law: Crime & justice in urban study

Scholars and social justice advocates have argued that NYPD’s use (or misuse) of broken windows policing created more problems than it solved in high-crime communities through aggressive policing and massive arrests of low-level offenders. Between 1980 and 2013, for example, there was a 190% increase in misdemeanor arrests. In 2017, City Council enacted the Criminal […]

(Answered) Urban dimensions of urban wildlife conservation

Introduction: please read chapters three (“Urban Wildlife Science in Coupled Human-Natural Systems”) and six (“The Urban System: Social Drivers”). There are also a few additional readings (see below). The beginning of chapter three stresses that there are really no ecological systems on the planet that have not been long-influenced by humans. Even tropical forests that […]

(Answered) Wicked Problem Essay: Urban Street Planning in London

Wicked planning problems are all around us. They often appear in the news and are often surrounded by controversy. Wicked problems help illustrate the politically charged nature of urban planning. This assignment requires you to conduct an analysis of the news to identify an example of a wicked planning problem. Identify a real-life example that […]

(Answered) Urban wildlife conservation

Read the material provided (use as sources as well) and answer the following: Readings for questions 1-3: Chapter 4-5 and Urban biodiversity gains new converts, Cities are hotspots for threatened species & Predicting native landscape preferences. 1. Planning for urban biodiversity: The Ives et al. article argues that cities can play an important role in […]