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Brenden Beck

New Jersey, New York, United States
As seen in: Color Research & Application, Wiley, Wiley Online Library, Memory Studies, New York Daily News, SAGE Publishing, Slate, Common Dreams, Westword, The Appeal and
Associate Professor @RutgersSCJ studying policing, city budgets, and housing. More active on BlueSky: brendenbeck.bsky.social.
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A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration

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By Aaron Stagoff, Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Brenden Beck
| Vital City Verified
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City. In one of his first acts after being inaugurated as mayor, Zohran Mamdani stood at the side of the Williamsburg Bridge and announced his first major improvement to transit infrastructure in New York: eliminating the notorious “bump” that has long rankled cyclists.
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Do austerity cuts spare police budgets? Welfare‐to‐carceral realignment during fiscal crises

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By Brenden Beck
| Wiley Online Library Verified
During the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. government devoted unprecedented funding to healthcare, old-age pensions, and cash assistance (Trattner, 1994). Cities, too, grew their social service provision during this time. The first municipal housing authority was founded in 1934, and by 1980, the median city was spending $35 per resident on housing and $200 per resident on parks, libraries, and healthcare (Marcuse, 1986; author's analysis of Census of Government [COG] 2021 data).
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Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level

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By Brenden Beck, Max Besbris, Alex Mikulas
| SAGE Publishing
Home values vary for many reasons, although a central component of this variation is location. Indeed, some cities, and neighborhoods within cities, are deemed more desirable than others and command higher relative prices for homes. In U.S. cities, this spatial differentiation of place by value is also deeply intertwined with race.
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