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The cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) is going up:  But we won’t tell you how much . . . And we’re not going to tell you until a year from now, after the 2025

Must Read Denser cities = Less expensive infrastructure.  A new study from New Zealand confirms one of the fundamental intuitions about cities:  Places with higher levels of residential density have lower per capita and per

Must Read The problem with elevators in America.  Market Urbanism’s Stephen Smith has an op-ed in the New York Times opening up a new front in the YIMBY effort  to expand housing supply in the

What City Observatory Did This Week Unique Local Experiences: The Hidden Value in Urban Economies. An often-overlooked aspect of urban economics: the value of unique, local, and seasonal experiences. We take as an example the

What City Observatory Did This Week Inventing a “commitment” to megaproject cost-overruns.  Oregon’s Department of Transportation is is trying to re-write history to create a commitment to unapproved freeway s and massive cost overruns. They’re using