Urban Analysis

Enjoyed speaking with Chris Woodward on the KABF Pedestrian Show about transportation and housing policy! Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/2ikZ85…

The @CityLittleRock is searching for a Director of Planning and Development. Come help me make this city the best it can be! governmentjobs.com/careers/little…

Americans in the southeast die 10-20 years earlier than people in other parts of the country. Shocking when you see it visualized like this. (Credit: Jeremy Ney)

A somewhat unknown ethnic group are the Isleños of Southeast Louisiana. The late 1700s saw an influx of Canary Islanders move to what was then Spanish territory. Historically, many were sugarcane planters. Today, a small % still identify as Spanish. Map by county below:

In 2011, a stretch of I-195 that ran right through the heart of Providence was demolished, freeing up 26-acres of Downtown adjacent land for new housing and an innovation district, reconnecting neighborhoods divided by the highways construction. 📍 Providence, RI

It was an honor to serve on the Birmingham Planning Commission! This city is making moves: - Removing mandatory parking minimums - Adopting a new urban neighborhoods zone to support walkability, small business, and missing middle housing - Evaluating short term rental regulation

I enjoyed reading drafts of @DerekHyra's new book: Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur Hyra puts the uprisings and the need for racial justice in the context of unfair urban policies—from housing to policing. Buy the @ucpress book: ucpress.edu/book/978052040…

👏 Congratulations to Prof. @DerekHyra! His new 📖 "Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur" has been released today by @ucpress! Watch and learn more about his research and how this book came to be. bit.ly/4fCgysQ

People vote with their U-Hauls.

Attention urban authors, we have a new @PennPress book series! pennpress.org/blog/penn-pres…

Join us next Tuesday, 3/19, at 12:30 pm CT in person for lunch or virtually for a colloquium with Robin Bartram, Assistant Professor @UChicagoCrown, who will discuss her book "Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Inequality" buff.ly/3IhQZxQ

"After four decades of privatization, remunicipalization has begun to reverse the trend.... This article provides the first comprehensive review of this remunicipalization literature" (McDonald, 2024). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

📣 🏆 Derek Hyra @DerekHyra selected to receive the 2024 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award (sponsored by @Sage_Publishing) at the International Conference on Urban Affairs in New York #uaa2024 #icua2024 buff.ly/3SDLnmv @MPC_AU @AU_SPA @AUReseach @AmericanU

French cities go straight from T4 urban villages to the T2 countryside. City and country are protected and enhanced. Both are beautiful. American land use policy destroys the city and country.

A majority of Americans, in every generation, would pay more to live in a walkable neighborhood.

Excited that Convening 2 is less than two weeks away. More info: localgov2030.com/phoenix-2024 #localgov

Here are the Top 10 states leading the manufacturing boom in 4 sectors: EVs/Batteries, Semiconductors, Biomanufacturing and Renewable Energy; PA doesn’t make any list!Latest from ⁦@DrexelLab ⁦team thenewlocalism.com/newsletter/how…

"We show that Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income, and wealth today than Black families whose ancestors were free before the Civil War." lukasalthoff.github.io/jmp/althoff_jm…

Grateful to the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation for permission to display panel 5 of the American Struggle Series on the cover. This book will change the way you think about #uprisings in #America. Release date: Aug. 2024. @MPC_AU @ucpress @UAAnews @UrbanHistoryA