Many aeons ago I posted on a controversy about crime and the new urbanism (“here”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000696.html and “here”:https://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000761.html ). David Sucher has “an update on that argument over at City Comforts Blog”:http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2004/01/welcome_to_new_.html .