Recent News
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UIL and Civic Analytics annual highlights
A 2025 year-in-review for the Urban Intelligence Lab and the Civic Analytics program.
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New funding
New York City receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its building decarbonization and resiliency goals.
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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.”
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Bonczak joins Advisory Council
Bartosz Bonczak joins the Advisory Council for the CityWorks exhibit at the New York Hall of Science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kontokosta presents at TMU research symposium
Kontokosta presents work on building performance standards at the Toronto Metropolitan University and REALPAC real estate research symposium.