Dogs of all shapes and sizes thrive in cities. Some city residents love dogs, and others hate them. But regardless, dogs play a critical role in keeping urban inhabitants connected and healthy. In the School of Cities’ new occasional video series, Dog Days in the City, we show how dogs foster interaction that builds social capital. In an upcoming video,…
Year: 2024
Understanding post-pandemic recovery for individual buildings
By Byeonghwa Jeong, Karen Chapple & Jeff Allen On this website, we’ve tracked post-pandemic recovery patterns in the downtowns of many North American cities, based on location-based mobility data from cell phones supplied by Spectus. While we’ve compared recovery across different cities, as well as created a tool to explore how results vary for different definitions of downtown, policymakers often…