This paper analyzes NYC’s IDNYC-MOIA partnership through a principal-agent lens, revealing inefficiencies and proposing reforms—like increased communication and agency consolidation—to better serve immigrant communities.
A comparative history of Minneapolis’s Skyway and Montreal’s RÉSO shows how transit integration, planning priorities, and public-private dynamics shaped two distinct models of climate-controlled pedestrian systems.
In an era where cities shoulder an increasing responsibility for immigrant service provision, local agency funding and monitoring reveals as much about democratic accountability as congressional oversight patterns.
This article explores water's relational intelligence through science, anthropology, and dance, revealing how its movement reflects agency and deep connections with human experience. It proposes embodied, reciprocal relationships with water as pathways to ecological healing and climate justice.
The Partners at UEI are excited to announce the creation of our second practice area focusing on City Governance and Policy (CGP), leading the way in studying civil service, public policy, and oversight in New York City and beyond.
This paper argues that in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve’s lender of last resort (LOLR) policy did discretionarily benefit certain financial institutions at the expense of others.
This piece builds on earlier studies investigating public art in Washington, DC with a focus on LGBTQ placemaking. Now returning to the original religious lens, this note examines the geographies of worship and placemaking in the DC's evolving cultural history.
Using the 2011 Somalia famine as a case study, this essay explores the benefits and risks of migration, providing an overview of the famine and analyzing its implications for affected societies.
This paper explores the forced development of language in a specific geography to abide by colonial standards, as well as how the imprint of the forced language gives rise to a new language community.
This urban survey provides a rough overview of sites of slavery, imprisonment, and Atlantic slave trade in Alexandria, Virginia. It touches sites in the city along the waterfront, within the urban fabric of the city, as well as on the periphery of Alexandria located in DC's periphery.
At the Urban Equity Institute (UEI) we recognize that generative AI has many applications and is a useful tool for researchers, writers, artists, analysts, and computer scientists. But, at the UEI, we require certain guardrails in place.
In a car-centred city plagued by vehicular pollution, this proposal identifies streets to be modified with human centred design at its core. These streets implement bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks, and increased tree coverage - all of which encourage the use of alternate transportation.