[Jane] Jacobs claims that a "well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city is apt to be unsafe." True enough, but let's try this again with the city as a totality in mind: A city where all residents are guaranteed a modicum of food, clothing and shelter, and where inequality is not vast and considered some natural ordering, is apt to be safe. The deeply unequal and spatially segregated city is apt to be unsafe.

— After Black Lives Matter by Cedric Johnson (Page 117)