Elizabeth Korver-Glenn will discuss her book, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America."
What are the biggest problems facing Houston? What tools do we have to solve them? Rice University and the City of Houston have joined forces to create Houston Solutions Lab, building on other recent efforts to bring together research and policy to help answer those questions.
Planner, architect and community advocate Antoine Bryant will discuss his work on affordable housing, equitable development and community-led design.
Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor.
In 2020, the City of Houston and regional stakeholders cemented a resilience strategy and a climate action plan and adapted these initiatives to account for COVID-19’s impact on urban life. Learn more about the progress made in the first year of these two transformative efforts to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change and other physical, social, and economic urban adversities and challenges.
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research's experts are available for speaking engagements. Expertise includes urban planning, transportation, development, local demographics, education and post-Harvey recovery.
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The popular perception is that Texas’s metropolitan areas are sprawling all over the place because the state has so much land. The truth of the matter is a little more complicated, however. Yes, all the metros in Texas are sprawling – but they’re densifying as well. And when you “net it out,” the density is winning over the sprawl in the big metros – while the sprawl is winning over the density in the smaller ones.
Texas added about 4 million new residents from 2010 to 2020, making it the third fastest-growing state. At the same time, it also became more diverse, and much like the rest of the country, its residents are increasingly concentrated in cities and suburbs.
