New data shows the diffusion of ride-sharing among US metro areas: Parking prices matter. We know from casual observation and the occasional leaded corporate document that ridesharing (which is more accurately but clumsily labeled ‘transportation network companies’) is growing rapidly.…
When you build a city that enables people to drive less, they spend less on cars and gas and have more to spend on other things. Here is my 2007 report, published by CEOs for Cities, which describes Portland’s Green…
In the wake of Pres. Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, many mayors and governors have stepped up their rhetoric on climate change. Will their actions match their words? On June 1, President Trump announced that he would withdraw…
What City Observatory did this week 1. Cities and the returns to education. We know that the nation’s best educated people are increasingly concentrated in urban areas. Data compiled by the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service shows a…
Reducing segregation does seem to result in much more social interaction, as intermarriage patterns demonstrate Yesterday, we took a close and critical look at Derek Hyra’s claim that mixed-income, mixed-race communities fell short of improving the lot of the disadvantaged…