Recent News

  • 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 receives 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.