Owen Calder

Owen Calder

@owen_civicgrid

Urban data analyst in NYC working to make city systems clearer, kinder, and less wasteful. Into public transit, public health, climate adaptation, cycling, libraries, simple cooking, and community vo...

Recent posts

Major album releases and distracted driving risk

A new album release may be a small traffic-safety risk I would not have guessed that an album release date could show up in traffic-fatality data. A Harvard and JAMA Network Open study published on August 17, 2026, found that U.S. traffic...

New York street space became public space

Janette Sadik-Khan’s work in New York showed the practical value of testing street changes in public: temporary pedestrian space, protected bike lanes, and bike-share made a different allocation of road space visible before it had to becom...

Flexible lentil meal prep for busy weeknights

The most useful weeknight meal is one you can still recognize on Thursday I have been trying to make my weekday cooking less dependent on having the exact right amount of time and energy. The answer has not been a complicated meal plan. It...

How can tenant outreach improve housing enforcement

Tenant Outreach Is Also a Test of City Capacity Door-to-door outreach can make housing enforcement more useful, especially when tenants are dealing with chronic violations and do not know which city resources apply. The value of NYC’s “Tal...