Last week, over the space of about 24 hours, the prospects for Portland’s proposed the Rose Quarter freeway widening dimmed almost to extinction. Leaders of Portland’s African-American community have concluded that the Oregon DOT had no intention of altering the…
What City Observatory did this week CityBeat: NPR urban flight story. The pack animals of the media have settled on a single, oft-repeated narrative about cities and Covid-19; that fear of the virus will lead people to move to the…
Yet another entry in the trumped-up pandemic-fueled suburban flight narrative Anecdotes aside, there’s no data that people are fleeing cities to avoid the Coronavirus The data show young, well-educated adults moving to urban centers everywhere, and no decline in interest…
The pandemic is exploding in Sunbelt Cities, from the Carolinas to California Covid-19 is subdued in the North and surging in the South Hotter southern temperatures and a move indoors, coupled with looser reopening regulations, may explain the Southern surge…
What City Observatory did this week When NIMBYs win, everyone loses. Two land use cases from different sides of the country are in the news this week. In both cases, local opponents of new housing development have succeeded in blocking…