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Narrow streets, a mix of large houses and tiny apartments, interspersed with shops and businesses in close walking distance. It’s the most desirable neighborhood in the city, and we’ve made it illegal to build any

Cities are becoming more important to the economic health of the country. How do we know? We can boil the answer down to four charts, each of which plots a key indicator of urban economic

What are roads for? For that matter, what’s transportation policy for? Much of the urban reform movement of the last few decades has been about re-asking, and re-answering, these questions. Most people who follow trends

Earlier this year, Daniel Hartley of the Cleveland Fed and Nathan Baum-Snow of Brown University published a novel analysis of what has been called the “Great Inversion”: the shift of higher-income people from the periphery

In my inaugural post, I claimed that county-level population data is bad at telling us much of anything about cities and housing preferences. Counties just contain too many multitudes – of built environments, of types

What City Observatory Did This Week Oregon’s transportation agency has driven itself into a fiscal brick wall of its own making. After the Legislature rejected a $14 billion transportation package, ODOT announced hundreds of layoffs

What City Observatory Did This Week HB 2025:  The Oregon Legislature’s “transportation package” simply doesn’t add up:  The bill promises more than $5 billion in mega-projects but provides vastly less revenue. It doesn’t add up: 

What City Observatory Did This Week ODOT hiding cost overruns.  Despite widespread bloviation about the need for “accountability,” the Oregon Department of Transportation is simply, and inexplicably, unaccountable for the spiraling cost of its largest