Shane: 1) As an ACGA board member, you should be familiar with the St. Louis Whitmire Study out of Gwenne Hayes Stewart's Gateway Greening outfit and a nearby University: <A HREF="http://stlouis.missouri.org/gatewaygreening/WhitmireStudy.htm";>Whitmire Study</A> . The Whitmire is an amazingly useful collection of quantifiable information on community gardens and the neighborhoods they serve, dealing with research on neighborhood stability, crime reduction, etc.
2) The link between crime reduction and community gardening seems to be acknowledged internationally. Here is the community greening page from Sydney, Australia's Royal Botanic Garden website: <A HREF="http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/education_kids_zone/community_greening";> Royal Botanic Garden Sydney - Community Greening</A> This paragraph from that page is particularly interesting: " By promoting communal gardening in public housing estates, and on nearby community locations, we make a significant contribution to improved social cohesion, crime reduction and public health in both urban and regional New South Wales." You may want to to contact the Royal Botanic Garden directly to query their methodology. I would suggest, however, that you please use the word, "please" somewhere in the text of your query - the word, oddly enough, remains standard usage in most English speaking countries, and its absence may be considered "odd". 3) This is a pdf link to a seminal paper: " Environment and Crime in the Inner City: Does Vegetation Reduce Crime?" by Kuo & Sullivan. <A HREF="http://www.herl.uiuc.edu/IMAGES/scientific_article_CC.pdf";>Kuo & Sullivan</A> . It is often cited in public greening and planning discussions - you should make yourself familiar with it. Best wishes and good luck in your search, Adam Honigman Volunteer, <A HREF="http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/";>Clinton Community Garden</A> << Subj: [cg] (no subject) Date: 8/25/03 11:29:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Listserve) To all I am Looking for as many studies as I can find that show a link to community gardening/greening and crime reduction. It can be through one specific garden or a University study. Preferablly, it will have crime stats prior to the instalation of a garden and the after affects. If anybodys knows of some of these would you please reply. I do have some already and I know there is Flint Michigan study and the one coming out this fall that was discussed at the ACGA conference in Chicago. I would still like to find any others that may be out there. Thanks for any help you may be willing to lend. Shane Siwik >> ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
