Sampson says Logic demands that if neighborhoods do not matter and placelessness reigns, then the city is more or less a random swirl. Anyone (or anything) could be here just as easily as there. Whether it be crime, poverty, child health, protest, leadership networks, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen births, altruism, mobility flows, collective efficacy, or immigrationthe city is ordered by a spatial logic (placed) and yields differences as much today as a century ago. Does the city and its context matter for human behavior? Why or why not? Defend and support your answer based on your readings and the lecture from this week. file:///C:/Users/Horseshoe%20Gate/Downloads/Sampson_Harvard%20Magazine.pdf
