Recent News

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • UIL and Civic Analytics annual highlights

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

  • New funding

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

  • 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.”

  • Bonczak joins Advisory Council

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kontokosta presents at TMU research symposium

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