Greg Berman
Greg Berman is the co-editor of Vital City and the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
Contributions
No Program Is a Panacea: The Fate of Focused Deterrence
Why are so many activists and academics ambivalent about an evidence-based approach to reducing violence?
What is Vital City?
A new venture dedicated to advancing actionable ideas for enduring safety.
Our First Issue
This first issue of the Vital City policy journal is devoted to gun violence. It is one of the most pressing problems currently confronting New York and other cities, and has become ground zero in the war of ideas and ideologies about what makes us safe.
Mend It, Don't End It: Salvaging Broken Windows
Forty years after its initial publication, the broken windows theory is still generating fierce debate.
Editors' Note: Issue 2
What is “disorder”? And what should we do about it?
There Are No Solutions: Making Sense of New York at the End of the 20th Century (and Now)
What Benjamin Holtzman’s ‘The Long Crisis’ gets wrong — and right — about New York’s revival.
Hot-Spot Policing After Memphis: Six Questions for David Weisburd
The winner of the Stockholm Prize for Criminology talks about the enforcement tactic in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
What We're Reading
A roundup of recent research on cities
Editors' Note: Issue 3
What makes a city tick?
Willing To Be Lucky: Dante Ross and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop in New York
In a new memoir, a decorated record producer chronicles the turbulent early days of the rap industry
What We're Reading
Recent research on city life
Editors' Note
The most wonderful time of the year?
From Pessimism to Optimism and Back Again: A Half Century of Criminal Justice Reform
Three big ideas have defined criminal justice over the last 50 years. What comes next?
Vital City 1.5: Ideas to Action
What we’re about and where we’re headed
Editors' Note
What does it take to solve a shooting?
What We're Reading
Recent research. Quick takes.
What We're Reading
We read the research so you don’t have to.
Editors’ Note
For better and for worse, substance use is an important part of the daily rhythms of the city.
Could Our Jails Be a Civic Asset?
An editors' note
Editors’ Note
Can the link between research and practice be fixed?