Recent News

  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference

    UIL researchers invited to present at ACSP 2026

    Prof. Kontokosta, Bartosz Bonczak, and Boyeong Hong were accepted to present their work on AI and 311 complaint data at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference.

  • Multiple line graphs showing changes in exposure density across different cities in the US, including Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington DC, with peaks indicating density levels.

    Congratulations to UIL PhD Candidate Bartosz Bonczak!

    Bartosz successfully defended his dissertation titled “Urban Systems in Motion: Harnessing Mobility Data and Machine Learning to Explore Neighborhood Interactions and Socio-Spatial Change in the Post-Pandemic Era.”

  • Paper published in Nature Cities

    “Commuter loss and retention in US employment centers during COVID-19 and its aftermath” by Bartosz Bonczak, Shlomo Angel, and Constantine E. Kontokosta in Nature Cities.

  • Cover page of a report titled 'The Implementation of Local Building Performance Standards: An Analysis of Progress to Date and Guide for Future Policy,' with a background image of tall modern glass skyscrapers reflecting a blue sky with clouds, and logos of NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at NYU School of Law.

    New report on building performance standards

    UIL and the Guarini Center at the NYU School of Law release a new cross-city study on building performance standards, supported by the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund.

  • Text reading 'RERI' and 'Real Estate Research Institute' beneath it.

    Kontokosta receives funding from RERI

    Prof. Kontokosta received a grant from the Real Estate Research Institute for a project on machine learning and real estate markets.

  • Urban Intelligence Lab logo with bold black text

    Kontokosta presents at University of Toronto

    Director Kontokosta gave a talk titled Urban AI: Artificial Decisions, Human Impacts at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities.

  • Futuristic cityscape illustration with the text 'Open Data Week 2026' and 'Made Powered by Markdown & OpenData' displayed prominently.

    UIL presents at NYC Open Data Week

    UIL and Marron Institute researchers Callie Clark and Bartosz Bonczak present on AI research using NYC open data.

  • Top left: a digital map showing traffic or data flow in New York City area. Top right: aerial view of a residential neighborhood with houses and parked cars. Bottom left: city street with tall buildings and steam rising from a manhole. Bottom right: a man and a woman smiling indoors with screens displaying images in the background.

    UIL and Civic Analytics annual highlights

    A 2025 year-in-review for the Urban Intelligence Lab and the Civic Analytics program.

  • U.S. Department of Energy logo with a presidential seal on the left and text 'U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY' on the right.

    New funding

    New York City and UIL receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its building decarbonization and resiliency goals.

  • National Science Foundation logo with the tagline 'Where Discoveries Begin'.

    New NSF award

    Prof. Kontokosta, together with co-PI Lance Freeman at the University of Pennsylvania, received a NSF grant for their project titled “Neighborhood Dynamics and the Inequality of Place: Using Large-Scale Mobility Behavior Data to Understand Socio-Spatial Disparities in Community Connectedness.”

  • Close-up of a logo with the word 'ny' in black, and a red circle containing the white letters 'sci'.

    Bonczak joins Advisory Council

    Bartosz Bonczak joins the Advisory Council for the CityWorks exhibit at the New York Hall of Science.

  • Cover of a journal titled 'Health & Place' with a green background, the Elsevier logo at the top left, and a white label at the bottom right indicating availability on ScienceDirect.

    Callie Clark publishes paper

    UIL PhD student Callie Clark’s research on emergency food access in New York City has been published in Health & Place.

  • Logo of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) with a stylized map and text.

    UIL researchers present at ACSP annual conference

    Prof. Kontokosta organized a session on mobility data and neighborhood dynamics, and presented at the Urban Planning AI workshop. Bartosz Bonczak and Callie Clark presented papers on recent NSF-funded research.

  • Cover page of a book titled 'The Annals of Applied Statistics' with a pink background and black text.

    Paper published in Annals of Applied Statistics

    The paper, co-authored by Kate Boxer, Boyeong Hong, Daniel Neill, and Constantine Kontokosta, examines reporting bias in 311 complaints related to heat and hot water problems in multifamily housing.

  • Color-coded aerial map of a city, showing high-rise buildings, streets, and water bodies, with different elevation levels indicated by varying colors.

    Kontokosta presents at TMU research symposium

    Kontokosta presents work on building performance standards at the Toronto Metropolitan University and REALPAC real estate research symposium.