John's Essay

John Cunniff
January 8, 2007

How Does Crime in Boston Affect Urban Infrastructure?

How does crime in Boston effect urban infrastructure? In all of my efforts I look on the Internet and could not find any thing about crime affecting any thing related to urban Infrastructure, and also during the meetings I asked the question and got no answer or just got brushed off but being resident of Boston I can give some of my own thought in the matter. Living in a city is fun but crime can be an issue at times but it all depends on where you are and how aware you are of your surroundings. In my opinion I think that Boston is a safe city but to some on who has never lived in a city it could be a shock because of the poverty and also the strange people. I live in South Boston Southie to the ones that live there it is a mostly Irish Catholic and also safe place to grow up, it is a very proud place and people are getting upset about all of the new housing that being built and which is not affordable to the town locals but affordable for young professionals who want to live close to the city but at the same time live in a quite town. This I a huge problem because they don’t help the community because it id not there permanent residents and don’t really care about the common good of the neighborhood.
I believe that Urban Infrastructure is in a way related to crime in one way, location and that would only be if you put a huge complex in a bad part of Boston. Crime in Boston is always a problem but I believe if the complex had good security it would be fine but then again anything can happen any where for example Newton is a safe area in suburb of Boston and crime happens in that town as well so really you never know what's going to happen.
On Jua we went to Mikes dads work and saw sight and I think the there will be very minimal crime in that area because it is in a pretty safe area of Boston. Crime in Boston is more of an issue in highly populated minority areas and they tend to be living in section 8 housing. A huge portion of crime related events are gang related.
In conclusion Boston urban Infrastructure in not affected by crime in any way and if it is it is minimal. Jua was a good 2 days of learning in my city that I call hoe and I learned some new information which was really helpful I enjoyed Jua except that I was sick the hole time which took away some of the fun away from the trip. I would love to do Jua next year as a senior leadership project.