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an essay collection from The Decent City initiative

an essay collection from The Decent City initiative

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Bringing Social Science Back In: The “Big Data” Revolution and Urban Theory
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Bringing Social Science Back In: The “Big Data” Revolution and Urban Theory NEW!

Robert J. Sampson and Mario Luis Small
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 1 Comments
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Spatial Data Science for an Enhanced Understanding of Urban Dynamics NEW!

Luc Anselin
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Opportunities for Social Theory in the Age of Big Data NEW!

Luís M.A. Bettencourt
September 21, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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How the Debate over Public vs. Private Transportation Hurts Everyone

Robert Bruegmann
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Youth, the City, and Public Interventions: Challenging Patterns of Inequality and Separation

Teresa Caldeira
July 17, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Toleration 0 Comments
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Immigrant Political Representation and the Social Geography of Migration

Rafaela Dancygier
June 25, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 0 Comments
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Some Preliminary Thoughts on Inequality and Urban Space: Looking Back, Thinking Comparatively, Heading Forward

Diane Davis
June 27, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Reflections on the Decent City

Diane Davis
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Toleration 0 Comments
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Harlem in the 2000s: Diversity, Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equity

Susan Fainstein
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 1 Comments
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Six Steps Toward Inequality

Gerald Frug
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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Unhappiness and Urban Decline NEW!

Ed Glaeser
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Planning the Decent City

Paul Goldberger
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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From Data to Models that Improve Urban Policy NEW!

Marta C. Gonzalez
September 30, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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The State of Current Knowledge about Cities and Toleration

Jennifer Hochschild
July 1, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 0 Comments
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Designing the Transformation of the Decent City: Theory and Practice

Aseem Inam
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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The Spatial Dimensions of Inequality

Paul Jargowsky
June 27, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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‘Black’ Suburbanization: American Dream or the New Banlieue?”

Kimberley S. Johnson
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 1 Comments
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Global Politics Go Local in the American City

Jytte Klausen
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Toleration 0 Comments
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Issues of Construct Validity and Reliability in Massive, Passive Data Collections NEW!

David Lazer
September 21, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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The Promise and Perils of Big Data for Social Science Research NEW!

Joscha Legewie
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Urban Planning and Community Data Collection Efforts in the Developing World: Data as a Facilitator NEW!

José Lobo
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Inequality and Urban Space: Some Notes on Institutional Isolation and Social Connectedness

John Logan
July 1, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 1 Comments
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Group Relations and Urban Design

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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Mapping the Social Geography of Urban Inequality

Nicole P. Marwell
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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Comments on the Spatial Dimensions of Urban Inequality

John Mollenkopf
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Decency, Design, and Development in New York City’s Historically Black Neighborhoods

John Mollenkopf
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Design Decency at the Urban Front

Harvey Molotch
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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How to Navigate the Data Deluge: Ecometrics and the Case for the Urban Social Sciences NEW!

Daniel O’Brien and Robert J. Sampson
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Urban Design and Inequality: The Case of Urban Villages in China’s Megacities

Xuefei Ren
June 27, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Can Machine Learning Be Useful for Social Science? NEW!

Cynthia Rudin
September 29, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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The Multiplicities of Urban Design

Brent Ryan
June 27, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Notes on Neighborhood Inequality and Urban Design

Robert J. Sampson
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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Dialogics

Richard Sennett
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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Open and Closed Design

Richard Sennett
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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An Organizational Perspective on Social Isolation

Mario Luis Small
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion 0 Comments
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Love Thy Neighbor(hood)

Michael Sorkin
June 25, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 0 Comments
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Diversity, Toleration, and Space in Metropolitan America

Thomas Sugrue
July 17, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 0 Comments
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Big Data for Good Cities NEW!

Emily Talen
September 21, 2015 By Natalie Reinhart In Big Data, Built Form and Urban Design, Inequality, new 0 Comments
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Ethnic Conflict in Urban Asia

Ashutosh Varshney
June 24, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 2 Comments
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Tolerance and Intolerance of Extralegal Habitation

Liza Weinstein
July 1, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Social Capital and Inclusion, Toleration 1 Comments
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Urban Cleansing: Evictions, Insecurity, and Intolerance in Global Perspective

Liza Weinstein
October 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Essays, Inequality, Toleration 0 Comments
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The Politics of Spatial Inequality

Margaret Weir
June 26, 2014 By Kate Grantz In Built Form and Urban Design, Essays, Inequality 0 Comments
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