How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting?…
Americans travel 7 to 9 miles on average for shopping and recreational activities, which is far longer than the 15-minute (walking) city…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
What will COVID-19 and the shift to remote work do to the cities of the world? The temporary disruptions have been enormous and remain…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
In June 2021, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the digital transformation consultancy Public Digital…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…