Urban Edge

Stories, perspectives and insights from the Kinder Institute

Buses aren’t always convenient. Houston Metro plans to fix that.

Even though Kurt Luhrsen works for the Houston-area transit agency, he knows its bus system is less than ideal.

HISD opens massive school district data sets to researchers

Hundreds of professors across the country spend countless hours researching education, but few are likely to affect the way schools are actually run.

How to Make Sure Philanthropy Pays Off

Richard and Nancy Kinder endowed the Kinder Institute with a $15 million gift in 2010. It was part of a bigger strategy.

What Millennials Think of Homeownership (and why it matters)

Optimistic about their own economic futures, they're still leery of the housing market almost a decade after the real estate bubble burst.

Mapping a community one parking spot at a time

Maps are one way to represent how we understand a given space.

Urban inequality is not just about the concentration of poverty, but also the concentration of wealth

Urban inequality is not just about the concentration of poverty. It is also about the concentration of wealth. The renewed focus on wealth has received recent media attention – and rightfully so. But researchers need to take careful steps as they tell the story of wealth concentration in cities that are racially and ethnically diverse.

Q&A with Kinder Institute Director Bill Fulton: The Path Forward

Bill Fulton’s been in Houston since August, listening to city leaders and planning a future for the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Last week, at the unveiling of this year’s results of its flagship Kinder Houston Area Survey, he unveiled the organization’s long-term plan.

Global Lens, Local Focus: How Brownsville turned tragedy into opportunity

Site of tragedy now showing signs of life.

Survey Results Shared at the 2015 Kinder Institute Luncheon

The survey, now in its 34th year, indicated that growing numbers of Houstonians are interested in living in dense, urban environments, and they increasingly view transit as a solution to traffic problems that have long-plagued the city.

Q&A with Stephen Klineberg: Kinder Houston Area Survey 2015

The annual study, known as the Kinder Houston Area Survey, shines a light on how the community has evolved and the challenges it will face in the future.