What City Observatory did this week 1. Measuring Anti-Social Capital. Thanks to the scholarship of Harvard’s Robert Putnam, the idea of social capital has become firmly entrenched in the policy lexicon. Putnam and others developed
The Week Observed, February 8, 2019 Read Post »
Streetsblogger extraordinaire Angie Schmidt is not happy with Uber and Lyft. They’re not really the ones to blame. Are Uber and Lyft to blame for growing urban transportation problems? Streetsblog’s Angie Schmit makes a strong
Angie’s List: The problem isn’t ride hailing, it’s the lack of road pricing Read Post »
Spending half a billion dollars to widen a mile of I-5 will have exactly zero effect on daily congestion. The biggest transportation project moving forward in downtown Portland isn’t something related to transit, or cycling
Rose Quarter freeway widening won’t reduce congestion Read Post »
The number of security guards is a good measure of a city’s level of “anti-social” capital In his book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam popularized the term “social capital.” Putnam also developed a clever series of
Measuring “anti-social” capital Read Post »
What are cities worth? More than big private companies, as it turns out: The value of housing in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas ($25.7 trillion) is more than double the value of the stock
The market cap of cities, 2019 Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. The limits of our current approaches to providing affordable housing. We present a summary of some remarks offered by Rob Stewart, a principal with JBG Smith Real Estate,
The Week Observed, February 1, 2019 Read Post »
