Prime working age adults are increasingly clustering in the center of the nation’s largest metro area City Observatory has long been following the movement of people and jobs back to cities. Our inaugural study on
The increasing centralization of urban economies: New York Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Caveat Rentor: the problem with flawed rental inflation statistics. We highlight the continuing problem of erratic and unreliable rental price indices. A recent column by a financial journalist reports
The Week Observed, June 1, 2018 Read Post »
The quality of rent data varies widely, beware of erratic data sources Trying to measure average housing costs for neighborhoods across an entire city—let alone the whole country—is an incredibly ambitious task. Not only does
“Caveat Rentor” – beware of crazy rent statistics Read Post »
To ballparks, convention centers and starchitect museums, add urban aquariums. To some boosters, your city is only one world-class visitor attraction away from economic prosperity. That pitch has been used to sell and endless series
Fishy business: the promise and perils of city aquariums Read Post »
Eds and Meds . . . and Capitol Domes? I recently participated as a part of an expert panel reviewed Sacramento’s economic development strategy. You can learn more about the city’s “Project Prosper” here. It
State government as an anchor industry Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week California’s next step in fighting global warming is building more apartments near transit. California has been a leader in climate change policy, being one of the first states to
The Week Observed, May 18, 2018 Read Post »
