I had the pleasure of talking about how we at UrbanSim Inc. are working on Forecasting for Equity with about 65 members of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Equity Working Group yesterday. Thanks to Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and Southe…lnkd.in/g7yZ-A5E

How Can Technology Address Housing Affordability? Arezoo (Ari) Besharati and I were honored to present yesterday at Harvard University on Data-Driven Multi-Scale Planning for Housing Affordability. The participants represented diverse perspectives rangin…lnkd.in/gTAPyxz9

Would anyone find it interesting to blend urban simulation, planning and urban design in a 3D game engine like Unreal 5? A modern take on #SimCity but for actual project planning and design? Sounds like a pretty interesting direction to us at UrbanSim Inc. lnkd.in/gSGgRRGW

The El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization has engaged UrbanSim Inc. to use its next-generation urban simulation platform to analyze the Impact of Urban Densification Policies on Emissions. UrbanSim is using its cloud platform to support EPMPO and col…lnkd.in/gM5VZJsT

Really glad to see more interest in these tools we developed and maintain at UrbanSim Inc. to better understand and improve multi-modal urban accessibility. The motivation for Pandana and UrbanAccess was that transit and pedestrian accessibility do not ge…lnkd.in/g5QARwcd

Another way to think about this is that highway projects can create both short-term induced demand (like Anthony Downs wrote eloquently about) and long-term induced demand like we have been modeling UrbanSim Inc., to reflect impact on real estate developm…lnkd.in/gcTvajqe

Tackling hard problems like housing affordability and climate change require the best information and analysis possible. We think those tools should be accessible to everyone who is working to make cities better. lnkd.in/gunTNDCa

Some thoughts on how to assess the robustness of urban models in predicting future urban development patterns. We are developing a suite of benchmarking metrics to help do this at UrbanSim Inc. lnkd.in/gS7rdkzu lnkd.in/gKmucp4F

With the Super Bowl on a lot of people's minds this weekend, we thought it might be fun to compare model performance between Kansas City and Philadelphia to see if there are any hints for the outcome of the game... Mid-America Regi…lnkd.in/gxYhMdZm lnkd.in/g-swZ4Ze

This makes me miss teaching urban data science to grad students at Berkeley. lnkd.in/gWjfthWF lnkd.in/gjh5hAgA

This is a compelling vizualuzation of the impact of massive highway projects on the fabric of urban communities. Try to imagine how different these neighborhoods would be today if we had favored investment in accessibility through active modes and transit…lnkd.in/g5NYrqA6

We have 'hit a new high' on the number of pedestrian fatalities (pun intended). It is a new low point over the past 4 years for pedestrian safety, attributed to unsafe infrastructure and SUVs. This is not an easy problem to solve s…lnkd.in/gbHzbuTD lnkd.in/gkA436mv

Home prices fell for the first time in 11 years, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index. But if you're looking for signs that the housing affordability crisis getting better, don't hold your breath. P…lnkd.in/dT8XBD4X lnkd.in/dR8UHS-Z

Paris has always been an amazing city, walkable and well connected by transit. Not always so great for biking. But who knew there was still so much room for improvement when the city prioritized pedestrians and bikes. The results are amazing. Reducing tra…lnkd.in/g5cM-_Du

Hmm, I wonder what a live concert would be like, with an audience of robots? lnkd.in/grh4W-Ys

I thought the graphic looked familiar. It’s from a 1989 article by Newman and Kenworthy. Somewhat controversial over the years based on methodology, but widely cited. Isn’t there a more current version of this classic graph of city density and energy cons…lnkd.in/g8_hmhtZ

This is a record we ever wanted to break. And unfortunately it will probably be broken soon, and repeatedly. We are acting like the proverbial frog in a slowly heating pot of water. lnkd.in/ghVtUrgv

Kudos, Montreal! What's not to like about creating vibrant streets in the urban core with a people before cars approach? I'm not sure whether local shops and restaurants were surveyed but I would speculate that their business has improved as a result of t…lnkd.in/gnf2Uy_X

I love games like this because they get more people thinking about how cities work. The only thing I love more is building this for real cities, with real interventions and real analytics, to help planners, architects, and advocates for better cities brin…lnkd.in/grB_bhma

Looking forward to speaking to planners and city officials from across Perú soon, about how data science can advance urban planning. Great to see advanced urban analytics being democratized globally. lnkd.in/gFh2kaEm