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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>

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 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

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