Urban Policy & Infrastructure
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Separate and Suffering: The Damaging Effects of Residential Segregation on Metropolitan Economies
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Residential segregation is shown to drive down income growth across all economic levels.
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Reducing Poverty: How Medicaid Does More Than Just Improve Access to Healthcare in Cities
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Recent research provides evidence supporting the poverty-reducing effects of Medicaid in urban areas.
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Focus on Finance: Bringing Private Sector Experience to Philadelphia
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The Treasurer for the City of Philadelphia, Nancy Winkler, discusses applying expertise from 28 years in financial consulting to reinvent the City’s financial fortunes.
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Focus on Finance: Conservative Budgets in a Liberal City
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Seattle’s Director of Finance Glen Lee discusses Seattle’s conservative approach to municipal budgets and how it helped the City rebound after the recession.
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Are Large Cities More Pollution Efficient?
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New research explores how population size relates to CO2 emissions efficiency.
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A Desperate Customer? The Growing Trend of PPPs in American Government
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Recent study finds that political and ideological factors as well as increased congestion may be driving states to privatize their transportation infrastructure.
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Focus on Finance: the Push and Pull of Los Angeles Labor Negotiations
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Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana shares how the City of Los Angeles has shrunk its structural deficit, lowered its pension liabilities, and increased its reserves.
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Focus on Finance: Funding Pensions in the Windy City
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Chicago’s CFO explains the city’s immense financial challenges, her insights, and why she’s optimistic for the future.
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Worlds Collide: Using Fluid Dynamics to Solve Urban Traffic Woes
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Researchers point to a new way to analyze traffic congestion in growing cities.
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Rising from the Ashes: Economic Transformation in Rust Belt Cities
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Recent research reveals that some urban rust belt cities adapted to the changing economic environment to become stable performers in their region.
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Growing Partnerships: Public Gardens Are Helping Cities Address Urban Challenges
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A new study examines the role that public garden partnerships can play during times of urban scarcity.