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Product Description: Many civic leaders in North America and Europe realize that tackling urban crime involves more than adding to the police force. Now, innovative, environmentally based approaches to the crisis have made encouraging progress. Detailing new strategies, this first-of-its-kind handbook shows how smarter urban design and management can be strong deterrents to many site-specific crimes...read more