In Europe and America, unbalanced urban development has caused all sorts of very visible problems. In his well-known book The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy, the British sociologist Anthony Giddens explores the problem of "crime and community" at some length.
在歐美的都市發展經驗中，失衡造成的問題處處可見，英國社會學家紀登斯在其名著《第三條路》中，曾大篇幅探討「犯罪與社區」。