Constantine E. Kontokosta

Associate Professor of #UrbanScience and Planning & Director, Civic Analytics @NYUMarron. Director of the Urban Intelligence Lab @NYU_CUSP @nyutandon.

[Marron Institute @NYUMarron]

Join @UrbanIntelLab and the Civic Analytics team where they will use "NYC open data and civic analytics to address issues of social justice, public health, and climate action in NYC and other cities." #NYCOpenData
Saturday, March 12 at noon EST
RSVP Here:
https://t.co/kgKtxl1EPQ

[Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh @SVNieuwerburgh]

Nice to see our article on transit infrastructure and value capture with @arpitrage @UrbanIntelLab come out in JUE. Timely too. Govt. announced expansion of the Q train at a cost of $6 billion. Our research says: finance at least some of it with targeted property taxes.

[Constantine E. Kontokosta @UrbanIntelLab]

Our recent paper looks at investment returns to building energy retrofits. Attractive returns (~20% IRR) and reasonable energy savings (~5%-10%/year) are not sufficient to motivate many building owners to invest. https://t.co/4aEGBDQzWK @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP @BerkeleyLab

[NYU Guarini Center @NYUGuarini]

Read our newly-released report on the feasibility of a potential carbon trading program for buildings under Local Law 97: https://t.co/vpmhy2dTZL

Our study team: @FurmanCenterNYU @PolicyIntegrity @NYUMarron @TheBrattleGroup @hraadvisors @_SWinter

[Marron Institute @NYUMarron]

.@nyustern's @arpitrage's policy brief features his value capture paper on the 2nd Ave Subway with Marron Civic Analytics' @UrbanIntelLab and @Columbia_Biz's @SVNieuwerburgh and also mentions the work of @ericgoldwyn and @alon_levy.

https://t.co/nTuJ2v1iwr

[Constantine E. Kontokosta @UrbanIntelLab]

Congrats, Vincent!

[Housing Initiative at Penn @HIatPenn]

For the first time, Phase 4 of #PHLRentAssist includes aid for utilities. Read about the burden energy-inefficient housing places on residents in @UrbanIntelLab, @VrainBK & Bartosz Bonczak's @APA_Planning journal article https://t.co/Ajg8sOxnYt

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

A new study by @UrbanIntelLab and @NYUMarron uses anonymized mobile phone data for Houston, Texas during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and shows how mobility behavior exposes neighborhood disparities in resilience capacity and recovery
https://t.co/MM8XHwc7Nx

[Constantine E. Kontokosta @UrbanIntelLab]

Our work on exposure density and neighborhood disparities in COVID-19 infection risk is out now (open access) in @PNASNews. @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP @NSF #COVID19

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

In New York, neighborhood changes in exposure density—a measure of activity associated with increased risk of exposure to infected individuals—in response to a stay-at-home order were linked with #COVID19 case, fatality, and test positivity rates. In PNAS: https://t.co/nuJllRqeHs

[Constantine E. Kontokosta @UrbanIntelLab]

Bias in smart city governance: our recent paper in Sustainable Cities & Society, supported by @NSF https://t.co/DMmxsmhwfN

[Marron Institute @NYUMarron]

Director of Civic Analytics, Constantine Kontokosta, is quoted: “The computing challenges are solvable,” he notes. “(T)he real uncertainty lies with how to integrate data-driven processes into public sector management.” @UrbanIntelLab

[Ellen P. Goodman @ellgood]

Happy to see this first installment in @johnlorinc #smartcity series. Drawing on work of @shannonmattern @UrbanIntelLab @RobKitchin @anthonymobile @MITdusp and always @biancawylie.

[CUSP at NYU Tandon @NYU_CUSP]

The are challenges when studying a fast-moving pandemic based on static measures, such as residential density, that are only updated periodically, says Constantine Kontokosta (@UrbanIntelLab), an urban planning researcher at NYU.

Read more @sciam: https://t.co/tcW05Hn2vk

[Marron Institute @NYUMarron]

The Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellowship invites applications for two urban data-science research assistantships for fall 2020. Grad students from all disciplines and programs across @nyuniversity are eligible. Sept 25 deadline cc: @UrbanIntelLab

https://t.co/SSl0kiEhoN

[Scientific American @sciam]

Population density does not doom cities to pandemic dangers https://t.co/Ir6IgFTlMU

[Constantine E. Kontokosta @UrbanIntelLab]

cc: @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP @NYUGuarini @sokratisp_

[Nature Energy @NatureEnergyJnl]

Using data from @nycgov's local law 87, @UrbanIntelLab and colleagues show that mandatory building audits lead to some energy savings of approximately –2.5% for multifamily residential buildings and –4.9% for office buildings https://t.co/6B7GThji8L

[Nature Energy @NatureEnergyJnl]

Using data from @nycgov's local law 87, @UrbanIntelLab and colleagues show that mandatory building audits lead to some energy savings of approximately –2.5% for multifamily residential buildings and –4.9% for office buildings https://t.co/6B7GThji8L

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

🚨New working paper!🚨

Joint work with @SVNieuwerburgh and @UrbanIntelLab: we find 1) Second Ave Subway expansion led to large commuting gains, 2) These were priced in real estate markets which went up, and 3) Gov property taxes recoup a fraction of this value increase

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[NBER @nberpubs]

NYC subway expansion created $7 billion in real estate value and shortened subway commutes significantly. While private gains exceeded the cost, the government's share of the gains did not, from @arpitrage, @SVNieuwerburgh, and Constantine Kontokosta https://t.co/bUoO7GfCkX

[Marron Institute @NYUMarron]

The Marron Institute is seeking applications for the Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellowship. @UrbanIntelLab

Learn more: https://t.co/fhW1IlKykW