The Marron Institute is seeking applications for the Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellowship. Constantine E. Kontokosta Learn more: marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog/marron-in…

NYC subway expansion created $7 billion in real estate value and shortened subway commutes significantly. While private gains exceeded the cost, the government's share of the gains did not, from Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Constantine Kontokosta nber.org/papers/w26789

🚨New working paper!🚨 Joint work with Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Constantine E. Kontokosta: we find 1) Second Ave Subway expansion led to large commuting gains, 2) These were priced in real estate markets which went up, and 3) Gov property taxes recoup a fraction of this value increase thread/

Using data from City of New York's local law 87, Constantine E. Kontokosta and colleagues show that mandatory building audits lead to some energy savings of approximately –2.5% for multifamily residential buildings and –4.9% for office buildings go.nature.com/3ayiyjQ

cc: Marron Institute CUSP at NYU Tandon NYU Guarini Center Sokratis Papadopoulos

Population density does not doom cities to pandemic dangers bit.ly/35DTJDx

The Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellowship invites applications for two urban data-science research assistantships for fall 2020. Grad students from all disciplines and programs across New York University are eligible. Sept 25 deadline cc: Constantine E. Kontokosta marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog/fall-2020…

The are challenges when studying a fast-moving pandemic based on static measures, such as residential density, that are only updated periodically, says Constantine Kontokosta (Constantine E. Kontokosta), an urban planning researcher at NYU. Read more Scientific American: scientificamerican.com/article/popula…

Happy to see this first installment in John Lorinc #smartcity series. Drawing on work of @shannonmattern Constantine E. Kontokosta Rob Kitchin ANTHONY MOBILE MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social and always ..

Director of Civic Analytics, Constantine Kontokosta, is quoted: “The computing challenges are solvable,” he notes. “(T)he real uncertainty lies with how to integrate data-driven processes into public sector management.” Constantine E. Kontokosta

Bias in smart city governance: our recent paper in Sustainable Cities & Society, supported by U.S. National Science Foundation doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.…

Our work on exposure density and neighborhood disparities in COVID-19 infection risk is out now (open access) in PNASNews. Marron Institute CUSP at NYU Tandon U.S. National Science Foundation #COVID19

A new study by Constantine E. Kontokosta and Marron Institute uses anonymized mobile phone data for Houston, Texas during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and shows how mobility behavior exposes neighborhood disparities in resilience capacity and recovery go.nature.com/3tRR2XW

For the first time, Phase 4 of #PHLRentAssist includes aid for utilities. Read about the burden energy-inefficient housing places on residents in Constantine E. Kontokosta, @VrainBK & Bartosz Bonczak's American Planning Association journal article bit.ly/3wyLV0X

Congrats, Vincent!

.NYU Stern's Arpit Gupta's policy brief features his value capture paper on the 2nd Ave Subway with Marron Civic Analytics' Constantine E. Kontokosta and Columbia Business School's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and also mentions the work of eric goldwyn and @[email protected]/@alonlevy.bsky.social (they). manhattan-institute.org/building-fisca…

Read our newly-released report on the feasibility of a potential carbon trading program for buildings under Local Law 97: guarinicenter.org/issues/cities/… Our study team: Furman Center Institute for Policy Integrity Marron Institute The Brattle Group HR&A Advisors Steven Winter Associates

Our recent paper looks at investment returns to building energy retrofits. Attractive returns (~20% IRR) and reasonable energy savings (~5%-10%/year) are not sufficient to motivate many building owners to invest. doi.org/10.1016/j.apen… Marron Institute CUSP at NYU Tandon Berkeley Lab

Nice to see our article on transit infrastructure and value capture with Arpit Gupta Constantine E. Kontokosta come out in JUE. Timely too. Govt. announced expansion of the Q train at a cost of $6 billion. Our research says: finance at least some of it with targeted property taxes.

Join Constantine E. Kontokosta and the Civic Analytics team where they will use "NYC open data and civic analytics to address issues of social justice, public health, and climate action in NYC and other cities." #NYCOpenData Saturday, March 12 at noon EST RSVP Here: 2022.open-data.nyc/event/civic-an…