NAME THE CITY
NAME THE "CITY"
POLICY ANALYSIS
"POLIS"Y ANALYSIS
PARKS AND WRECK
200
This iconic locale is the largest US city by population.
New York City
200
This phenomenon has been harnessed to power many of civilization's great accomplishments: light bulbs, smartphones, Tamagotchis, and more.
ElectriCITY
200
New York City is about to become the first major US city to experiment with this policy, which recently celebrated 20 years of successfully reducing pollution and increasing transit usage in London.
Congestion Pricing
200
An ancient citadel in Athens containing ruins with both historical and architectural significance.
AcroPOLIS
200
Seattle, Buffalo, and Hartford are three cities which have eliminated this common component of zoning codes and seen great results--saving money and improving quality of life. One researcher called removing this policy "the single most impactful zoning regulatory reform of the 21st century."
Parking Minimums
400
The 13 largest stadiums (by capacity) in North America all host college football teams. The 14th largest stadium is in this city.
Mexico City
400
The opposite of transparency
OpaCITY
400
Pigouvian taxes -- such as taxes on soda or carbon emissions -- are taxes designed to address this kind of market failure.
Negative Externalities
400
A 1927 Fritz Lang film about a futuristic urban dystopia, or a less dystopian fictional locale that first appeared in DC Comics' "Action Comics #16" in 1939
MetroPOLIS
400
September 20th, 2024 will be the 19th annual Park(ing) Day, an urbanist holiday slash "guerilla art project" in which local citizens and organizations take over parking spots and turn them into these, now the industry term for a tiny park.
Parklet
600
The most populous US state capital to end in "City."
Oklahoma City
600
A word often synonymous with persistence or determination
TenaCITY
600
Contrary to the intentions and expectations of its designers, this simple policy has been shown to make a subset of people eat LESS healthfully.
Calorie Disclosure Requirements
600
This language's 32-character alphabet uses the same set of letters as English with 9 additions but without q, v, and x.
POLISh
600
In a streatery-killing effort to reclaim precious parking spaces, Philadelphia forced Bar Hygge to take down these vibrant and adorable "Hygge Houses," a reference to a specific type of coziness from this country.
Denmark
800
The 2020 census was the first in which this fast-growing locale overtook Long Beach, CA as the largest US city to be in a county but not the seat of that county.
Mesa, AZ
800
A measure of a planetary orbit's deviation from circularity, or a kind of strangeness
EccentriCITY
800
In 1994, Card and Krueger published a landmark study, exploiting a 1992 update to New Jersey law, that showed a change in this policy had no detectable effect on fast food employment.
Minimum Wage
800
A person who is (or who owns a business that is) the only seller of a particular good or service
MonoPOLISt
800
According to the Parking Reform Network, this California city has the largest share of downtown land dedicated to parking among US cities with a population above 500,000: a whopping 34% of all surface area is reserved for immobile vehicles.
Fresno
(Los Angeles: 23%
San Diego: 13%
San Jose: 18%
San Francisco: 3%
Sacramento: 16%)
1000
The seafood industry employs more residents than any other sector in this integrated city-borough, the largest city by both land and water area in the US.
Sitka, Alaska
1000
In this 1996 comedy, Michael Keaton plays a busy man trying to become more productive by cloning himself.
MultipliCITY
1000
When conducting policy analyses, different government agencies put different values on this common input. In 2023, DOT pegged it at $13.2 million, while HHS said it could be anywhere from 6.1 to 19.7 million (though 13.0 was their "central estimate").
A Human Life
1000
An unusually large urbanized area usually containing multiple major cities
MegaloPOLIS
1000
This city has the dubious distinction of containing the largest parking structure in the world, with a capacity of over 20,000 cars. The overflow lot has room for 10,000 more.
Edmonton