neighborhoods

New research suggests social comparison can be an effective way to reduce energy consumption.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research finds many white suburbanites are motivated to move when their neighborhood becomes more ethnically diverse.

• By Tom Jacobs

Getting a better sense of how people visualize their neighborhoods could be the first step toward improving them.

• By Rick Paulas

They'll stay out of trouble longer, a new study suggests.

• By Nathan Collins

A police force and an after-school program in Costa Mesa, California, worked together to make a neighborhood safer and send kids to college. What can we learn from their success?

• By Nicole Shine

Housing affordability is highly variant from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. Don't buy the hype about the Lone Star state.

• By Jim Russell

Diverse neighborhoods, it turns out, aren’t just conducive to hipsters.

• By Tom Jacobs

The geography of income inequality is all about demand.

• By Jim Russell

Many of the efforts made to resuscitate dying cities aren't concerned with dying neighborhoods. Sometimes it's easier to just amputate the limbs to save the body.

• By Jim Russell

There are more factors at play than just those related to the real estate market.

• By Jim Russell

The financial crisis turned the world upside down.

• By Jim Russell

New research finds residents of well-to-do neighborhoods—especially those who are younger and relatively poorer—tend to spend compulsively and manage their money unwisely.

• By Tom Jacobs

Mr. Rogers was right: Neighborhoods play an important role in a child's development.

• By Tom Jacobs