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@furgar One big gripe I have with the recent influx for the shilling towards the "mixed-use walkable city" advocates is their assertion that low crime is a guaranteed when you implement their city planning ideas. But they never consider that having a high trust society is a necessary first step. Such a society is far more easily achieved when you have a common ethnic/cultural background. In the US, we certainly have no such society.
@furgar This is not me being against better city planning with more walkability and less car dependence, but do not assume that having such a city will guarantee that the other problems such as crime will somehow vanish. You either need to have the pre-existing conditions where crime would not be a problem in the first place, or you need to have a means to deter the criminality. City design alone will not deal with this issue.