Today marks the fourth year since we launched City Observatory On October 17, 2014, we started up City Observatory. Many thanks to all those who’ve made this endeavor possible over these past four years. This
City Observatory’s Fourth Birthday Read Post »
Building a city so its residents don’t have to drive so much powers economic growth A decade ago, we coined the term “green dividend.” We noted that among large US metropolitan areas, Portland residents drove
Fresh evidence for Portland’s green dividend Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Carol Coletta on why cities need to embrace change. We publish Carol Coletta’s remarks to the Congress for the New Urbanism, outlining the case for thinking about cities
The Week Observed, October 12, 2018 Read Post »
Let’s put a price on using the atmosphere as a garbage dump for carbon Earlier this week, Yale economist William Nordhaus was announced as this year’s co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with
A Nobel Prize with a solution for climate change Read Post »
Why the leading economist of innovation sees a central role for cities Two years ago, in 2016, we did our best to nudge the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to give the Nobel Laureate in
Paul Romer is awarded the Economics Nobel Read Post »
This is the text of a speech delivered in Detroit to the Congress for New Urbanism conference by Carol Coletta, a senior fellow at the Kresge Foundation’s American Cities Practice. Could there be a more
Why cities need to embrace change Read Post »
