The Stanford Social Innovation Review writes about a study led by University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine epidemiologist Charles Branas that showed greened vacant lots decreased gun assaults.
"We see it happening," says Robert Grossman, director of the PHS Philadelphia Green Program. "The neighborhoods where we’ve done a lot of this work are really transformed." The vacant lots host weddings and barbecues, instead of drug dealers and prostitutes, he says.
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