De-congestion pricing works
If it can make it there, it can make it anywhere: It’s up to you New York, New York. The big urbanism news of the past few weeks has been the debut and stunning early success of New York City’s…
Joe Cortright
And, we’re back (almost)
If you are a regular reader of City Observatory, you know that we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties for the pas two months. I’m pleased to report that we’ve largely restored the functionality of the City Observatory website. We’ll be…
Economic Segregation
What is economic segregation? Economic segregation is the physical separation of households according to income: Low income people are concentrated in some neighborhoods; higher income people are concentrated in other, different neighborhoods. What are the negative effects of economic segregation?…
Core Vitality
The urban core is the nucleus of the metropolitan area and its health is vital to regional economic success. Certain functions happen best and only in dense cores. Urban services and social function are better in cities with strong cores.…
History shows IBR modeling is simply wrong
Highway department’s are selling multi-billion dollar highway widening projects based on flawed traffic projections. The projections prepared for the predecessor of the proposed $7.5 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement project predicted traffic would grow 1.3 percent per year after 2005. In…