What City Observatory did this week 1. Is the urban revival over? A provocative (but highly misleading) headline in last week’s New York Times sits atop Richard Florida’s op-ed about the future of cities. Although Florida is really making the…
How can a city be named the first “LEED Platinum” city and be building freeways in its suburbs? Submitted for your approval: Two recent news items from our nation’s capital. In the first, Washington DC proudly announced that has been proclaimed…
Reports of the demise of the city rebound have been greatly exaggerated Richard Florida’s op-ed piece in The New York Times last week had an eye-catching headline: “The Urban Revival is Over.” Here was the apostle of cities, apparently calling…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Inequality in three charts. New data produced by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues provides a rich, high-definition look at the growth of income inequality in the US. But while the quality of our…
Uber’s lifting the veil–just a little–to provide data on urban transportation performance Uber’s new Movement tool provides valuable new source of data about travel times in urban environments. We’ve gotten an early look at Movement, and think its something that…