Purpose: Demolishing abandoned buildings has been found to reduce nearby firearm violence. However, these effects might vary within cities and across time scales.
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
“Digital government” is becoming simply “government.” As a result, an ever-increasing number of systems and processes critical to the operation of government—the core infrastructure of a state—are bei
n 2020 the EPA narrowed the definition of 'Waters of the United States', significantly limiting wetland protection under the Clean Water Act.
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
Dynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology. Our communities today face difficult issues—such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness—which are tangled, complicat
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’ methodology of Athey et al.
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 430 B.C.E.; the Bubonic plague hit Constantinople in 541 C.E.
March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in the near future.” This visionary statement is infused with hope
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S.
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