Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an…
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…
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,…
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…
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…