Professor Mayne talks about his work studying citizen satisfaction and democratic performance.
The Saguaro Seminar is a research initiative that brings together leading thinkers and practitioners to develop actionable ideas for civic…
Policy brief describes how the City of Boston has used data and technology to improve government services.
There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities…
We study the tradeoff between megacities and networks of smaller cities in a model of recombinant growth and endogenous amenities. Three…
New model of democracy is emerging in several municipalities: participatory budgeting.
Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized
metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global…
New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome
variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than…