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…
Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in…
In June 2021, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the digital transformation consultancy Public Digital…
Sustainably built and funded infrastructure is indispensable to resilient, equitable, and livable communities and regions worldwide. In…
Modern cities face many new challenges as a result of the ‘digital age’, in particular the uncertain promise of high urban benefits from…
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
The United States needs to build better infrastructure. The current repairs and replacements are disorganized and patchwork, resulting in…
To determine the appropriate level of infrastructure spending, there is no alternative to aggregating the results of project-by-project…