Associate Professor of #UrbanScience and Planning & Director, Civic Analytics @NYUMarron. Director of the Urban Intelligence Lab @NYU_CUSP @nyutandon.
Joined May 2017
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
9 Mar 2022
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:
2022.open-data.nyc/event/civ…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
13 Jan 2022
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.
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23 Nov 2021
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. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2… @NYUMarron @NYU_CUSP @BerkeleyLab
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
15 Nov 2021
Read our newly-released report on the feasibility of a potential carbon trading program for buildings under Local Law 97: guarinicenter.org/issues/cit…
Our study team: @FurmanCenterNYU @PolicyIntegrity @NYUMarron @TheBrattleGroup @hraadvisors @_SWinter
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
12 Jul 2021
.@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.
manhattan-institute.org/buil…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
6 Apr 2021
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 bit.ly/3wyLV0X
24 Feb 2020
Does energy justice have the power to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis?
@UrbanIntelLab, @VrainBK, and Bartosz Bonczak explore the hidden key to housing affordability #JAPAplanning #affordablehousing bit.ly/2upfxmc
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
25 Mar 2021
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
go.nature.com/3tRR2XW
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17 Mar 2021
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
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: ow.ly/wrb250E0zyI
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1 Mar 2021
Bias in smart city governance: our recent paper in Sustainable Cities & Society, supported by @NSF doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.1…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
11 Jan 2021
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
9 Jan 2021
Planning, data and technology coming together with uncertain results is a new old story.
A deep dive by @JohnLorinc:
thestar.com/news/atkinsonser…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
4 Jan 2021
Happy to see this first installment in @johnlorinc #smartcity series. Drawing on work of @shannonmattern @UrbanIntelLab @RobKitchin @anthonymobile @MITdusp and always @biancawylie.
4 Jan 2021
#topoli #onpoli Today in @TorontoStar: Smart city technology - urban utopias or techno-dystopias? Via @AtkinsonCF. thestar.com/news/atkinsonser…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
24 Sep 2020
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: scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
18 Sep 2020
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
marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog…
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
16 Sep 2020
Population density does not doom cities to pandemic dangers bit.ly/35DTJDx
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31 Mar 2020
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 go.nature.com/3ayiyjQ
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
31 Mar 2020
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 go.nature.com/3ayiyjQ
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
4 Mar 2020
🚨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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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 nber.org/papers/w26789
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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 nber.org/papers/w26789
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Constantine E. Kontokosta retweeted
23 Jan 2020
The Marron Institute is seeking applications for the Civic Analytics Graduate Student Fellowship. @UrbanIntelLab
Learn more: marroninstitute.nyu.edu/blog…
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