What City Observatory did this week Peaks, Valleys and Donuts: Visualizing cities in cross-section. The University of Virginia’s Demographics Research Group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has produced a powerful on-line tool
The Week Observed, September 28, 2018 Read Post »
Too often, the descriptions of urban form are reduced to excessively simple binary classifications (city v. suburb), or rely on data grouped by counties, which are maddeningly disparate units. County-level population data is bad at
Peaks, valleys, and donuts: Visualizing cities in cross-section Read Post »
Part 5. Are the nation’s richest suburbs really its most economically inclusive cities? A statistical methodology that repeatedly flags high income suburbs as “inclusive” probably isn’t actually measuring inclusiveness. (Editor’s note: This is the fifth
Why inclusive is so elusive, Part 5: Exclusive suburbs Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week This week, we published five posts taking a critical look at how a recent Urban Institute report, Measuring Inclusiveness, illustrates the problems and pitfalls of defining and measuring “inclusion.”
The Week Observed, September 21, 2018 Read Post »
Part 4. Are racially and economically homogeneous cities and suburbs in a segregated metro “inclusive?” Looking only at disparities within cities misses the often far larger disparities across cities within in single metropolitan area. (Editor’s note:
Why inclusive is so elusive, Part 4: Metropolitan context Read Post »
Part 3. Do annexations and mergers constitute economic growth? Not adjusting city job growth estimates for changes in city boundaries produces misleading estimates, especially when used for comparing and ranking cities. (Editor’s note: This is
Why inclusive is so elusive, Part 3: Annexing growth Read Post »
