Average household income in cities is increasing twice as fast as in their suburbs Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its latest estimates of national income based on the annual Current Population Survey. The
Cities lead national income growth, again Read Post »
When we strongly incentivize anti-social behavior by big corporations, we get more of it Everyone in the urban space is busy handicapping the Amazon horserace, to see which city will land Amazon’s HQ2, which promises
Cash prizes for bad corporate citizenship, Amazon edition Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Is the urban revival over? A provocative (but highly misleading) headline in last week’s New York Times sits atop Richard Florida’s op-ed about the future of cities. Although
The Week Observed, September 8, 2017 Read Post »
How can a city be named the first “LEED Platinum” city and be building freeways in its suburbs? Submitted for your approval: Two recent news items from our nation’s capital. Â In the first, Washington DC
Cognitive dissonance on the Potomac Read Post »
Reports of the demise of the city rebound have been greatly exaggerated Richard Florida’s op-ed piece in The New York Times last week had an eye-catching headline: Â “The Urban Revival is Over.” Here was the
Oh, no! Is the urban revival really over? Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. Inequality in three charts. New data produced by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues provides a rich, high-definition look at the growth of income inequality in the US. But
The Week Observed, September 1, 2017 Read Post »
