Why does the National Renewable Energy Lab give its employees free parking? The researchers at the National Renewable Energy Lab are hard at work on a lot of cool ideas for reducing pollution and promoting
How green is my free parking structure? Not very. Read Post »
At City Observatory, we’ve written quite a bit about the phenomenon of city center job growth. We did a whole CityReport about the phenomenon, showing that since the Great Recession, urban cores have been outperforming
When it comes to transit use, it’s all about destination density Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Climate change: the two-cent solution. The City of Chicago charges its residents a fee of 7 cents for each disposable grocery bag. The fee provides revenue and more
The Week Observed, July 14, 2017 Read Post »
Despite what you may have heard, poverty rates in suburbs are on average half what they are in urban centers There’s a growing chorus about the so-called suburbanization of poverty. A couple of years ago,
Reality check: Poverty rates are much lower in suburbs Read Post »
Politico’s survey of experts leaves out the most important challenges, in our humble opinion. A couple of weeks back, Politco, the wonky-insider beltway news source queried a dozen of the nation’s urban thought leaders about
What’s the biggest threat facing cities? Read Post »
Let’s put a price on using the atmosphere as a garbage dump for carbon For almost six months, Chicago has been charging shoppers a 7 cent fee for using disposable plastic grocery bags. Rather than
Climate Change: A 2-cent solution Read Post »
