Strong Towns + Urban3
Don’t fly blind. Use data and visualizations to reveal and reshape your city’s economic future.
Don’t fly blind. Use data and visualizations to reveal and reshape your city’s economic future.
Urban3 makes the complex human. They can help you demystify tax codes, government jargon, and municipal finance data, allowing your community to clearly understand the economic impact of development.
Cost of Service Analysis
Scenario Analysis
Public Asset Valuation
Revenue Modeling
Equity in Assessment Analysis
Redlining Analysis
A two-year project analyzing the ways in which property tax policies make towns and cities weaker and place unfair financial burdens on low income residents and communities of color. Learn more.
A long-term series exploring the history of Kansas City, Missouri, and the financial ramifications of its development pattern. Learn more.
A site in Asheville, NC, is subject to a new development proposal to build multi-family housing—and in today’s housing market, that should be a good thing. But is this development contributing to a larger problem?
A 2020 study revealed that areas around streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. are more segregated and poorer than the United States average. Now, data shows property values in these areas are affected, as well.
Plenty of debate swirls around the question of whether or not government services like transit should be "free" to the end user. Here's what's missing from that debate.
As Asheville, NC, promises to make up for past harms done to its Black community, it glosses over an ongoing disparity: less-wealthy homeowners (who are disproportionately Black) are overpaying on their property taxes.
As America’s cities continue their halting climb up and out of the last few years, data analytics firm Urban3 foresees a few crises—as well as opportunities—waiting for them in 2023.
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has done the math on a proposed development in rural Collier County, FL, and what they discovered enabled them to take a large-scale developer to court.
All over the U.S., studies have shed light on how much residents in lower-valued homes are being overassessed on property taxes. Now, Buncombe County, NC, is offering residents a space to appeal their assessments.
Our friends over at Urban3 share some of their favorite visuals from 2022—each of which tells a mathematical truth about the places we choose to develop and inhabit.
Are there any instances where sprawl is actually good? Hear Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn discuss this with Joe Minicozzi, principal of Urban3.