Archives:
1996-2001

Since the Taub Urban Research Center website was launched in September 1996, we have amassed a great deal of material.

As a way to continue to make this available, as well as make room for new research and information, all pre-2002 material will now be archived here.

 

Click here to access our offline archives going back to 1990.

 

Research Reports

New York Metropolitan Area Effective Real Property Tax Rates (1997 & 1998) and (1998 & 1999)
April 2001
by Dick Netzer and Tom Conoscenti

Long Island Effective Real Property Tax Rates (1997 & 1998) and (1998 & 1999)
April 2001
by Dick Netzer and Tom Conoscenti

The Local Becomes Global Becomes Local: The International Movement of Capital and its Urban Reifications [PDF]
by Aharon Kellerman
February 2000
[also available in HTML form]

New York Metropolitan Area Effective Real Property Tax Rates for 1998 [PDF]
by Dick Netzer and Thomas Conoscenti
March 2000

Effective Real Property Tax Rates For the New York Metropolitan Area: A Comparative Analysis 1997-1998 [PDF]
by Thomas Conoscenti
Published in The Wagner Review, Spring 2000

Municipal Government Online: How New York City Can Become the Internet City [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss, Courtney Wade, Jennifer Li Wong, and Steve Mitra
May 1999
[also available in HTML form]

How Telecommunications Systems are Transforming Urban Spaces [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss and Anthony M. Townsend
April 1999
[also available in HTML form]

Tunnel Vision: An Analysis of the Proposed
Tunnel and Deepwater Port in Brooklyn

by Hugh O'Neill and Mitchell L. Moss

'Net Equity: Class Divisions Emerging on the Net [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss and Steve Mitra
August 1998

Spatial Analysis of the Internet in U.S. Cities and States [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss and Anthony Townsend
April 1998
[also available in HTML form]

New York City Adoptions, 1997 [PDF]
by Trudy Festinger
Ehrenkranz School of Social Work
New York University
[also available in HTML form]

Immigration is Transforming New York City [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss, Anthony Townsend, and Emmanuel Tobier
December 1997
[also available in HTML form]

Using Adjusted Performance Measures for Evaluating Resource Use [PDF]
by Leanna Stiefel, Ross Rubenstein, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
October 1997
[also available in HTML form]

Race-Based Neighborhodd Projection: A Proposed Framework for Understanding New Data on Racial Integration
by Ingrid Gould Ellen
October 1997

Technology and Cities [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss
September 1997
[also available in HTML form]

Manhattan Leads the 'Net Nation [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss and Anthony M. Townsend
August 1997

Twenty Million Neighbors: An Assessment of Social Conditions in the Tri-State Region
by Appleseed, Inc. and the Taub Urban Research Center
Prepared for the United Way of Tri-State
June 1997

Telecommunications Policy and Cities [PDF]
by Mitchell L. Moss
November 1996

Leaders and Losers on the Internet
by Mitchell L. Moss and Anthony M. Townsend
September 1996

Managing New York's Capital Crunch [PDF]
by Hugh O'Neill and Kathryn Garcia
September 1996
[also available in HTML form]

Made in NY: The Future of Manufacturing in New York [PDF]
by Mitchell Moss, Hugh O'Neill, and John Kedeshian
April 1996
[also available in HTML form]

The Impact of New Federal Budget Priorities on America's Cities [PDF]
by Hugh O'Neill and Megan Sheehan
September 1995
[also available in HTML form]

From Ellis Island to LAX: Immigrant Prospects in the American City [PDF]
by Roger Waldinger
April 1995
[also available in HTML form]

Flexible Economic Development: A New Approach to the South Brooklyn Waterfront
by Mitchell L. Moss and Hugh O'Neill
February 1993

Reinventing New York: Competing in the Next Century's Global Economy
by Mitchell L. Moss and Hugh O'Neill
November 1991

 

New York Affairs

New York City Web Guides: An In-Depth Analysis of New York City's Web Presence
by Mitchell L. Moss, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Patrick Harrigan

Immigration and New York City's Economy
by Steve Mitra

The "Wired" Metropolis: The Internet Backbone and the Future of Cities in the Information Age
Fall 1998
by Anthony Townsend
People tend to take telecommunications for granted, especially in New York, which arguably has the world's most advanced communications infrastructure. Yet that is not the case everywhere, as many cities lag behind in the race to get "wired."
(This article is hosted on a different site and will open in a new browser window.)

New York Metro Area Has Largest Internet Presence
May 1998

Community Networks - New York's Rotten Apple
Spring 1998
by Anthony Townsend
Community networks, online services aimed at using new technologies to rebuild the social fabric are springing up all over the country. That is, except in New York. (This article is hosted on a different site and will open in a new browser window.)

"Good Morning New York, Everyone Please Plug In"
Fall 1997
by Anthony Townsend
An look at New York's cyber-frontier, in the neighborhoods beyond Silicon Alley... (This article is hosted on a different site and will open in a new browser window.)

 

Guestbook Entries

July 1996 - September 1997
September 1997 - February 1998
February 1998 - September 1998
September 1998 - November 1998
November 1998 - March 1999

 
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