Actions speak louder than words; blocking new housing will drive up rents Nominally, at least, the Portland City Council is all about housing affordability. They’ve declared a housing emergency. In the last general election, City
Portland doesn’t really want to make housing affordable Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. The correlation between bad diets and vote for President. A new research paper has distilled mounds of data on consumer shopping behavior gleaned from supermarket scanners, and combined
The Week Observed, March 9, 2018 Read Post »
Jane Jacobs was just one of the first of many It’s International Women’s Day, and today, we’d like to acknowledge just a few of the really sharp women urbanists we rely on, every day, at
What the obsession with technological fixes says about how we fail to prioritize people in cities In the best traditions of engineering, clever minds are working on new technologies that can prevent or reduce the
The technological fix for our pedestrian problem Read Post »
. . . we want more economic activity in this community, because that’s what creates opportunity and with more economic opportunity it does mean that there’s going to be more demand for all kinds of
Barack Obama on Gentrification Read Post »
The states with the worst diets voted disproportionately for Donald Trump A powerful new study from uses big data to shine a powerful light on our eating habits. Using data from grocery store scanner records,
Junk food America elected its president Read Post »
