The relationship between tree canopy and crime rates across an urban-rural gradient in the greater Baltimore region

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-270

  Troy, Austin ^a   Morgan Grove, J ^b   O'Neil Dunne, Jarlath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Geographically weighted regression; Public safety; Urban tree canopy; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

CRIME; FORESTRY; LAND USE; RURAL AREAS;

GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; PUBLIC SAFETY; SPATIAL NON-STATIONARITY; URBAN TREE CANOPIES; URBAN VEGETATION; URBAN-RURAL GRADIENTS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ABANDONED LAND; CRIME; FOREST CANOPY; LAND USE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OWNERSHIP; PRIVATE LAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY;

BALTIMORE; BALTIMORE COUNTY; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861344774     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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