Whether at the neighborhood or metropolitan level, more job growth doesn’t seem to improve economic mobility There’s a seemingly un-questioned (and unquestionable) truth among economic development practitioners that more job creation is the universal answer to problems of economic opportunity.…
Today marks the fourth year since we launched City Observatory On October 17, 2014, we started up City Observatory. Many thanks to all those who’ve made this endeavor possible over these past four years. This project simply wouldn’t have been…
Building a city so its residents don’t have to drive so much powers economic growth A decade ago, we coined the term “green dividend.” We noted that among large US metropolitan areas, Portland residents drove significantly fewer miles per person…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Carol Coletta on why cities need to embrace change. We publish Carol Coletta’s remarks to the Congress for the New Urbanism, outlining the case for thinking about cities in a more dynamic fashion. …
Let’s put a price on using the atmosphere as a garbage dump for carbon Earlier this week, Yale economist William Nordhaus was announced as this year’s co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with Paul Romer, who we profiled…