Insights

Boring Cities; Food as Placemaking and the Jane Jacobs Opera: Urban Insights From Around the Web

A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.

Houston, Kinder Institute to Host Next City Vanguard Conference in 2016

What happens when you bring dozens of the country's most promising young urbanists to a city and set them loose to solve its biggest challenges?

What Ancient Cities Can Teach Us About Using Public Spaces

“Tactical urbanism” isn’t a new phenomenon, research reveals.

Women in Politics; Food Stamps and Uber for Bikes: Urban Insights From Around The Web

A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.

How Diversification is Changing America’s Families

As both Houston and the United States become more diverse, study sheds lights on what that means closer to home.

Segregated Schools; Stadium Boondoggles and Trump State Park: Urban Insights From Around The Web

A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.

Flood Response; A New Type of Bikeshare and PBR Apartments: Urban Insights From Around The Web

A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.

Shanghai’s Lessons On Urban Safety

Research says migrants aren’t to blame for problems facing Chinese cities.

What Americans Want to Do With Undocumented Workers

No matter how you slice it, surveys show preference for a path to citizenship.

A New World’s Fair, the Millennial Mayor, and the “Egg Map”: Urban Insights From Around The Web

A new feature highlighting the week’s interesting, important and downright weird news about cities.

Why It Was Harder For Black People To Return To New Orleans

After Hurricane Katrina, recovery efforts were targeted toward rebuilding property, not communities, expert says.

How Houston Leaders Prepared the Astrodome For 60,000 Evacuees

Robert Eckels, Harris County’s top official during Hurricane Katrina, gives an inside account of the massive disaster response.

Four Myths About Katrina’s Impact On Houston

10 years later, survey data reveal trends that add depth to the story of the devastating storm and its aftermath.

No, Katrina Evacuees Didn’t Cause a Houston Crime Wave

Lawmakers, police and everyday Houstonians said the city became more dangerous thanks New Orleans evacuees. Statistically, that’s not true.

Meeting Them Mattered: The Relationship Between Personal Interaction and Opinions of Katrina Evacuees

Some Houston residents grew frustrated with Katrina evacuees. But those who actually met them had a different outlook.