Blog
Field notes, research, and product stories from the Curbcut team: on walkability, accessibility, mobility, housing, and making spatial insight accessible.
Article · 31 Aug 2026
Curbcut mapped 35 years of housing development and land cover across 11 major Canadian metro areas using satellite imagery, census data, and machine learning.
Article · Transport15 Jun 2026
Transportation, equity
Article · Health18 Mar 2026
Walkable neighbourhoods support everyday physical activity, mental well-being, and social connection. Curbcut's Active Living Potential Index lets us measure them.
Article · Transport13 Feb 2026
How Curbcut built reusable, national-scale travel-time infrastructure, and why it matters for equitable, data-driven decision-making across Canada.
Article · Transport3 Dec 2025
From snow-clearing in Sweden to Montreal's origin-destination surveys: why mobility data under-counts women's travel, and how Curbcut's methods help close the gap.
Article · Housing22 Oct 2025
Curbcut co-founders Kevin Manaugh and David Wachsmuth on housing and transportation, two of Montreal's biggest election issues.
Newsletter13 Aug 2025
The big news: the Canadian Housing Observatory beta, platform-wide performance upgrades, and what's happening in and around Curbcut.
Research · Transport4 Dec 2024
Our peer-reviewed study of Montreal's BIXI expansion finds a progressive shift toward prioritizing lower-income and more diverse neighbourhoods.
Case studyPRDS de Laval
The PRDS de Laval commissioned a customized Curbcut platform to visualize complex urban data and the connections between social and environmental issues.
Case study · HousingGovernment of Canada
Curbcut’s open-access Canadian Housing Observatory, funded by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, makes national housing data explorable on an interactive map.
