Urban Institute releases neighborhood data book
The Urban Institute has released Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data, a book about the evolution and current status of using neighborhood-level data to help distressed communities and improve local governance. Authors and essayists explore the history of the neighborhood data movement, the technological developments that have enabled better data collection and analysis, case studies of effective uses of data, and more. The book includes an essay on the data-sharing environment in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, contributed by Jeff Mattson of the University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and Jacob Wascalus of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. To order a print copy of Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data or download the free e-edition, which is compatible with the Adobe Digital Editions reader, visit www.urban.org/strengtheningcommunities.