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Violent crime—in Chicago and elsewhere—tends to be limited to a proportionally small, socially-networked population. New technologies are beginning to illuminate the connections.

Despite Chicago’s boondoggle, NYC is interested in getting some private money out of its public meters. They’re off to a better start, but there are even more lessons to learn from our debacle.

Folk wisdom suggests that recessions cause deprivation, and deprivation causes crime. Generally speaking, it’s not the case, but in Chicago there were noticeable variations in the crime data during the worst of the unemployment spiral.

Why court a public-private infrastructure trust to retrofit city buildings—and, in the future, probably much more—when we’re still suffering the hangover from the parking meters? Carol Marin and a wonktable ask, and occasionally answer, the questions.