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People need to not take this article too seriously. I have done statistical social science research that included mapping and I can tell you their methods are extremely unsound and methodologically flawed.
Their results will present a negative bias against areas that bring in huge amounts of people (a daytime population if you will), but the area is actually sparsely populated by urban standards).
Atlanta, having 4 neighborhoods on their list, is a perfect example. One neighborhood is mostly the Georgia World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome. On any given day there are tens of thousands of visitors there and has the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands of people. However, the residential neighborhood just to the west (Vine City) that is included with the GWCC has alot of empty lots and is mostly single family homes. From an aerial map it is easy to count them all. By Consequence there are few people in that census tract, but there are lots of crimes that occur at the convention center and not the residential neighborhood.
The same problem occurs with the Turner Field/Mechanicsville neighborhood and the neighborhood with Centennial Olympic park (a neighborhood that is actually a highly desired in Atlanta).
If you want to see a good example of this examine #5 on the list, then google map (aerial image) Atlanta, GA and look at the same neighborhood from an aerial perspective.
Atlanta is probably an extreme example of this, since many of the urban neighborhoods are not dense and white flight caused alot of residential development to leave Atlanta and go to the next county before the City of Atlanta was fully developed.
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