This analysis includes an interactive heat map and analysis for identifying, visualizing, and evaluating economic prosperity and distress spanning nearly every community throughout the country. The “Distressed… Read More »
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How to Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone
This piece looks at the question of how we can make room in highly desirable cities for everyone. Economists, sociologists, and land use scholars weigh… Read More »
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype and Potential
This piece, authored by the well-known urbanist Peter Calthorpe and by Jerry Walters of Fehr & Peers, looks at how autonomous vehicles may shape our… Read More »
Equity in Building Resilience in Adaptation Planning
The NAACP released a set of resilience indicators to guide communities toward integrating an equity lens as they design climate adaptation plans so that protection… Read More »
Shared-Use Mobility Toolkit for Cities
This new report looks at the growth and opportunities in bikeshare, ridesharing, and shared mobility systems. It includes interactive mapping tools for 50 US cities,… Read More »
National Resources & Technical Assistance for Transit-Oriented Development
This online hub compiles information and ideas to help everyone from concerned residents to elected officials develop outstanding transit-oriented development projects.
Who’s On Board: What Today’s Riders Teach Us About Transit That Works
This report looks at when people choose to ride transit and in what conditions, plus breaks down the common stereotype that there are only two… Read More »
Opportunity Score
This online tool evaluates housing locations across 350 cities according to the accessibility of jobs within a 30-minute walk or transit ride.
Sprawl and the Cost of Living
This analysis looks at the “sprawl tax”: how much more Americans pay in time and money because of sprawling urban development patterns. It finds that… Read More »
What Makes Housing Too Expensive
This article compiles various sources and looks at solutions to the urban housing affordability crisis. It proposes that government regulation for producing new housing must… Read More »