U.S. residents, how they commute and what it costs
…nearly 20% less than the average) while those in cities that sprawl have higher costs (Atlantans spent $10,890, 11% more than the average). More driving also increases a city’s per-capita…
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Global land and water grabbing
…range of strategies to “secure” water supplies for present or future needs. Better water management is sometimes involved, but often — as New York City did 150 years ago —…
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Bus crashes in the United States: What does the research say?
…(including city and school buses) and those for charter and tour motorcoaches. Be wary, too, that accident data may involve all parties involved, not just bus occupants. With that in…
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Climate change, natural disasters and community resiliency: Research roundup
…and one-quarter of the homes were inundated, in the city’s worst flood on record. We aimed at contrasting the respective hazards, vulnerabilities, stressors, psychological risk factors, psychosocial consequences, and disaster…
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Property values, parks and crime: An analysis of Baltimore
…and low-crime parks across Baltimore was found to be widely dispersed throughout the city. “Often, low-crime parks will be found very near high-crime parks without intermediate medium-crime parks in between.”…
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Happiness among the garbage: Differences in overall happiness among trash pickers in León, Nicaragua
…profiled the trash collectors by systematically surveying all of those who could be contacted in a single city — nearly 100 of them. The researcher, from the Spain-based Universidad de…
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The Boston Marathon bombing and media resources: Reporting tips, terrorism-related data
…for the virtues of hyper-connected speed and the perils of unconfirmed reports and social media’s raw, unfiltered broadcast capacity. Subsequent reporting has also been marred by false reports and information….
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Job polarization and workers’ response to the decline in middle-skill jobs
…still being investigated. A 2013 study from economic researchers Didem Tüzemen and Jonathan Willis at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, “The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers’ Response…
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What’s new in digital scholarship: May 2013
…we last surveyed in 2006: 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006; 71% post their school name, up from 49%; 71% post the city or town…
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What’s new in digital scholarship: June 2013
…tweets around a popular hashtag used by users who worry about their personal safely in a Mexican city we found that one must go back and forth between collecting and…
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