Director of Human Exploitation and Resilience, Meredith Dank, along with RTI’s Rebecca Pfeffer and Kelle Lyn Barrick, has shared her National Institute of Justice-funded study, “Understanding What Works in the Successful Identification, Inv…
Director of Civic Analytics, Constantine Kontokosta, received funding from the Real Estate Research Institute for an upcoming study, “Using Vehicle Registration Data and Machine Learning to Predict Neighborhood Change.” Along with Civic Ana…
Director of Health, Environment and Policy, Kevin Cromar, drafted public comments opposing the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed repeal of its 2024 determination that Utah’s Northern Wasatch Front failed to attain the 2015…
The Civic Analytics program integrates the theory and practice of urban science to acquire, analyze, and derive insight from data to better understand the challenges facing cities and society. The Health, Environment, and Policy program, le…
Along with NYU Data Services and NYU CUSP, the Marron Institute co-hosted “Building Urban Data Community: Open Data Creators’ Forum.” Director of Urban Expansion, Solly Angel, delivered the keynote address, sharing seven data stories—and th…
The New York Times: “The money that would be spent to make city buses free could instead fund the construction of 41 miles of subway extensions, according to a report released on Friday by the planning group, the Marron Institute of Urban M…
The Age: “The ‘Starfish’ City: How Melbourne’s Shape Is Pushing Young Workers Out” discusses Bertaud’s recent visit to Melbourne: “Bertaud is critical of planning controls such as minimum lot sizes and minimum floor sizes, which he said cou…
Director of Health, Environment, and Policy, Kevin Cromar, co-hosted a multi-agency webinar organized by the World Meteorological Organization’s Vegetation Fire Smoke Pollution Warning Advisory and Assessment System (VFSP-WAS) North America…
The Daily Economy: “Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’” mentions Bertaud: “As urban planner and George Mason scholar Alain Bertaud reminds us, cities are foremost labor markets, not works of art. ‘Planning,’ he a…
Link2Build: “TRACCS Calls for National Framework for Passenger Rail Projects” mentions the Transit Costs Project: “A database of global transit that is maintained by NYU’s Marron Institute shows that Canadian rail projects can cost more tha…
The Transportation and Land Use program has released A Better Billion: Expanding Transit & Housing for a More Affordable New York, a report developed as a long-term vision to combat Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordability crisis via subway exp…
Behavioral Health Emergency Response Initiative (BHERi): In 2025, the SCALE + Lab, led by Senior Fellow and Research Professor Mindy Tarlow, secured a three-year funding commitment from Blue Meridian Partners for the Behavioral Health Emerg…