Place - Based Interventions to Prevent Gun Violence
This innovative research has established the relationship between the restoration of blighted and vacant land and its impact on gun violence, fear, and crime in urban neighborhoods. Current projects, publications, and relevant media are included below.
Current Projects
A randomized trial of abandoned housing remediation, substance abuse and violence
Place matters - adaptable solutions to violence at the community level
Relevant Publications
Effect of Remediating Blighted Vacant Land on Shootings: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial - Moyer R, MacDonald JM, Ridgeway G, Branas C, American Journal of Public Health, 2019
Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial to Restore Blighted Vacant Land and Its Effects on Violence, Crime, and Fear - Branas C, South E, Kondo MC, Hohl BC, Bourgois P, Wiebe DJ, MacDonald JM, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Effect of Greening Vacant Land on Mental Health of Community-Dwelling Adults - South EC, Hohl BC, Kondo MC, MacDonald JM, Branas C, JAMA Network Open, 2018
The Association Between Urban Tree Cover and Gun Assault: A Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study - Kondo MC, South EC, Branas C, Richmond TS, Wiebe DJ, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
Modifiable Neighborhood Features Associated with Adolescent Homicide - Culyba AJ, Jacoby SF, Richmond TS, Fein JA, Hohl BC, Branas C, JAMA Pediatrics, 2016
A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space - Branas C, Cheney RA, MacDonald JM, Tam VW, Jackson TD, Ten Have TR, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2011
Media
TedX Philadelphia - June 2019 Transforming City Neighborhoods
The New Yorker - August 2018 The Other Side of “Broken Windows”