…City, travel time and cost more strongly predict social media connectedness between zip codes than geographical distance, the paper finds. How transit connections relate to social connections “Social connections are…
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…with a stricter city policy.” “Nearly half of the city governments have sent no clear policy signal regarding immigration policing to their police department (according to the chief),” the data…
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…national trend, traffic fatalities have fallen disproportionately in New York City. Between 1990 and 2009, New York City’s annual traffic fatalities fell by 63% compared with 24% nationwide. New York…
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…biodiversity could suffer if low-density sprawl is favored over more compact forms, while in developed countries, population growth and social change are already pushing up central-city housing prices and increasing…
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…the city had notified of code violations but who hadn’t fixed those problems, with some owing tens of thousands of dollars in fines. It illustrates the city government’s lack of…
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…Neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City,” provides a new window into these dynamics at the level of a particular city. Authors Garth Davies of Simon Fraser University and Jeffrey Fagan…
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…the Atlantic Cities website, which spotlights emerging trends and innovations, as well as Living Cities, Governing, Next City and City Mayors. Journalist’s Resource’s database curates recent academic scholarship on city-related…
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…and McGill University in Canada, published in the journal Nature, “City Living and Urban Upbringing Affect Neural Social Stress Processing in Humans,” used computerized stress tests and MRI scans, coupled…
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…report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, published in The Washington Quarterly, “The Day After: Action Following a Nuclear Blast in a U.S. City,” anticipates the actions that would be…
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…garbage each resident threw out, on average, you’ll need to look up or ask for the city’s population that year. Let’s say 710,000 adults and children lived in that city…
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