What City Observatory did this week 1. The latest from the Louisville travel behavior experiment. Just before the New Year, Louisville started charging tolls to cross its newly-widened I-65 bridge. When it did, traffic across
The Week Observed, April 28, 2017 Read Post »
Cities are organisms, not machines; So a smart city has to learn and not be engineered The growing appreciation of the importance of cities, especially by leaders in business and science, is much appreciated and
What does it mean to be a “Smart City?” Read Post »
It’s no longer fashionable to get an unrealistically flattering portrait painted, but you can get an economist to do it with numbers. You’ve no doubt heard the term “hagiography” an unduly flattering biography or other
Hagiometry: Fawning flatterers with an economic model Read Post »
Inclusionary zoning programs are too small to make a dent in housing affordability Two of the most respected names in housing research are Lance Freeman and Jenny Schuetz. Freeman is professor urban planning at Columbia
The 0.1 percent solution: Inclusionary zoning’s fatal scale problem Read Post »
Even with the free alternative closed, traffic is very light on the new I-65 bridges Time for one of our periodic check-ins on our real world transportation pricing experiment in Louisville, Kentucky. As you recall,
The latest from the Louisville traffic experiment Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. How we measure segregation depends on why we care. Daniel Hertz explores the various ways we measure the geographic separation of different racial and ethnic groups. There’s a
The Week Observed, April 21, 2017 Read Post »
