Gentrifying neighborhoods produce more mixing, but don’t automatically generate universal social interaction. What should we make of that? In one idealized view of the world, economically integrated neighborhoods would have widespread and deep social interactions
Integration and the Kumbaya gap Read Post »
So-called smart cities have an achilles heel: data is biased by the status quo Streetsblog recently highlighted a new report from Houston’s Kinder Institute, evaluating bike and pedestrian road safety based on user-reported near misses.
The hidden bias of big data Read Post »
The more education you have, the bigger the payoff to living in a city A recent Wall Street Journal article painted the nation’s rural areas as its new inner cities, with high rates of poverty,
Cities and the returns to education Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Dirt Cheap. A number of tech startups are exploring techniques for high density urban farming. In theory, new methods, like vertical farming in plastic tubes, can greatly reduce
The Week Observed, May 26, 2017 Read Post »
Trump’s infrastructure package would let states pursue road pricing A trillion dollars for infrastructure. That’s been the headline talking point for months about the Trump Administration’s policy agenda, but the details have been murky at
Just ahead: Road pricing? Read Post »
Is the urban renaissance over? Earlier this week, The New York Times published an op-ed from Jed Kolko–”Seattle Climbs but Austin Sprawls, The Myth of the Return to Cities”–offering up another iteration of his long running
More debate on city revival Read Post »
