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For this project, I chose to construct a three act narrative centered around the relationship between green space and crime in urban areas. In doing so, I look deeper into two study areas, New York City and San Francisco, where the former represents a beneficial relationship between the two variables, and the latter a detrimental one. Along with this, references to human health, institutional action, and design structure are made to strengthen this relationship.

Included in this story are two maps; a map of the total crime index in the United States (Figure 1, 4 and 6), and a heat map of parks in the United States (Figure 2).

This is an important narrative to me because I am doing a group research project on green space in another one of my classes. There, we are assessing how green space affects peoples’ perception of population density. I thought that for this project, I would assess a different aspect of green space; its effect on crime. This decision was also credited to a variety of interesting sources that I found that dive deep into this relationship.