…many decades, but eventually gave it up, was the city of Pittsburgh, where several urban economists claimed that it had the desirable effects argued for it. If the land tax…

…of these had *lower* numbers than the national average. It appears that the heavily vaccinated jurisdictions, being urban travel hubs, were exposed to Omicron first, and are further along in…

…a step back, is there a risk of creating a suburban-urban divide, with suburbanites demanding more center city parking, and urban residents saying, “No, we don’t want it”? We are…

…And why? While most urban hospitals and larger rural hospitals make profits on patient services, most small rural hospitals lose money delivering services to patients, ” CHQPR says in its…

…plan is primarily about improving service in urban areas where volume is largest. (See this previous post on the rural/urban divide of the S&DC plan.) Five of the 13 new S&DCs are…

…but in the past the cultural difference between urban and rural wasn’t quite so stark. Mores were relatively conservative everywhere—in public, at least—and in any case, urban debauchery was a…

…related to firearms, as stratified according to race or ethnic group and urbanicity categories (urban vs. rural; see Tables S1 and S2 and Fig. S1 in the Supplementary Appendix). Firearm-related mortality…

…much higher rates than white people (Hill and Artiga 2022). Residents of rural communities also suffered higher rates of COVID-19-related deaths than did urban residents. Initially, urban counties had higher…

…regions. The pandemic and increased use of remote work practices further leveled the playing field: urban flight to less densely populated — and typically cheaper — regions has further shrunk the affordability…

…enough to reverse the effects that incarceration has had on urban neighborhoods. A more successful reform agenda will include deeper reforms for all types of offenses, and stronger reinvestment into…