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Neighborhood pubs/bars of the sort that are attended primarily by people in the neighborhood are actually beneficial to neighborhood security and quality of life.

Anything that gets the people who actually live there out on the street, particularly in the nighttime hours, increases security.

Our modern, sterile "city planning" where everything is separated and zoned off into their own areas is a huge factor in the decline of our quality of life.

For an extensive treatment of this thesis, see the work of Jane Jacobs.

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Jacobs analysis doesn't extend to public drunkenness.

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Actually, it does.

She argues that people are less likely to engage in any type of antisocial behavior when they're in their own neighborhoods, where people know them.