Since 2005, LSE Cities (London School of Economics) has been collecting comparative data on how global cities perform in terms of key spatial, socioeconomic, and environmental indicators. This is their latest data matrix: To be clear, it is not a ranking of cities. It is… Read More
Here’s a chart from Knight Frank’s 2019 Global Affordability Monitor that I think you’ll find interesting: It compares real home price growth and real household income growth (after tax) over the last 5 years for 32 world cities. The bolded percentages represent the former and… Read More
Earlier today The Economist published the below chart showing where Canada’s immigrants have come from (place of birth) between 1871 and 2011. So basically from Confederation (1867) to today – almost. It’s a great chart. It really shows our evolution. Perhaps the most meaningful date… Read More
Jeffrey Lin, who is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, recently published the following chart: I found it in this Washington Post article. And it’s packed full of fascinating information. The chart compares the socioeconomic status in US cities (y-axis) against “distance… Read More
Just a few days ago, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published an interesting research study where they argue that this U.S. housing boom is different than that of the early 2000s. During the last boom, U.S. home prices peaked in 2006 and then… Read More
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently published an interesting report called, New York: The Ultimate Skyscraper Laboratory. The money shot is this image here: It is a timeline of all tall buildings (over 100 meters) completed in New York since 1908 when… Read More
I just came across the following chart via City Clock: It came from a study that looked at 74 cities in terms of two measures: the percentage of people that travel by car and the traffic congestion levels within those cities. The way to read… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 