What City Observatory did this week 1. Who bikes? Discussions of investing in bike infrastructure are often fraught with arguments about who benefits, with oft-expressed fears that bike lanes chiefly benefit a spandex-wearing elite. How
The Week Observed, May 31, 2019 Read Post »
Neighborhoods are always changing; half of all renters move every two years. There’s a subtle perceptual bias that underlies many of the stories about gentrification and neighborhood change. The canonical journalistic account of gentrification focuses
The constancy of change in neighborhood populations Read Post »
Workers in low income households rely more on bikes for commuting, but the data show people of all income levels cycle to work There’s a lot of hand-wringing and harrumphing about the demographics of cycling.
What City Observatory did this week Exit, hope and loyalty:Â What’s behind neighborhood change? America’s neighborhoods are always changing, and it’s often a question of whether change is driven more by hope or despair. We
The Week Observed, May 24, 2019 Read Post »
How neighborhood stability hinges on expectations:Â If people don’t believe things are going to get better, many will leave One of the most perplexing urban problems is neighborhood decline. Once healthy, middle-class or working class-places
Exit, Hope and Loyalty: The fate of neighborhoods Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Will upzoning help housing affordability? Housing supply denialism–claims that the laws of supply and demand don’t apply to housing markets–have a ready audience in the NIMBY community. The
The Week Observed, May 17, 2019 Read Post »
