We’re driving more, and more of us are dying on the roads. Four days before Christmas, on a Wednesday morning just after dawn, Elizabeth Meyers was crossing Sandy Boulevard in Portland, near 78th Avenue, just
2017 Year-in-review: More driving, more dying Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. How great cities enable you to live longer. We take a close look at some findings from the Equality of Opportunity Project on the connections between community characteristics
The Week Observed, January 12, 2018 Read Post »
The more education you have, the bigger the payoff to living in a city It’s a well-understood fact that education is a critical determinant of earnings. On average, the more education you’ve attained, the higher
Your college degree pays off more if you live in a city Read Post »
Low income people live longer in dense, well-educated, immigrant-friendly cities Some of the most provocative social science research in the past decade has come from the Equality of Opportunity Project, led by Stanford economist Raj
How great cities enable you to live longer Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Cities continue to attract the young and restless. We’ve seen some push-back in the last few months, arguing that city population growth is no longer outpacing suburbs, and
The Week Observed, January 5, 2018 Read Post »
In auto-land, pedestrians are just one more patented gimmick away from being safe The dominant approach to automobile safety has, for many years, been the quintessential technical fix. Some combination of new technologies (anti-lock brakes,
Nothing about pedestrian safety that more technology won’t fix Read Post »
