There was an unprecedented decline in traffic congestion in the US last year. According to the Urban Mobility Report, there’s essentially nothing we can learn from this experience The Texas Transportation Institute has always been apologists and propagandists for the…
The decline in interest rates in 2020 is a huge factor in explaining the recent surge in home prices. Population growth, a key driver of housing demand, actually slowed dramatically in the past year. The current surge in home prices…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Cars kill city neighborhoods. Across the nation, America’s cities have been remade to accomodate the automobile. Freeways have been widened through city neighborhoods, demolishing homes and businesses, but more than that, the sprawling,…
The $800 million project transitions from “nothing has been decided” to “nothing can be changed” There’s a kind of calculated phase-shift in the way transportation department’s talk about major projects. For a long, long time, they’ll respond to any challenges…
What City Observatory this week 1. Race and economic polarization. In the past several decades, racial segregation in the US has attenuated, but economic segregation has increased. This is nowhere more apparent than in the residential patterns of Black Americans. …