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Top 25 Urban research institutes based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 193 urban research institutes headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,629 professional contacts across them, including 1,015 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers urban research institutes headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest urban research institutes based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,030 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ULI - the Urban Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPUR brings people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems cities face.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We thrive on solving complex urban problems in intelligent, pragmatic ways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Almost 50 years of public policy research for better human outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is a nonprofit organization dedicated to smarter, more sustainable cities and a more viable future for global populations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Regional Plan Association is an independent, non-profit civic organization that develops and promotes ideas to improve the economic health, environmental resiliency, and quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Ramos Research Institute is a research institute working on original research, polling, and policy analysis to tackle today's wicked problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CNT is a nonprofit organization, headquartered in Chicago, that helps cities use resources more efficiently and equitably.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In response to global demand, The Global Institute on Innovation Districts has been established by a group of influential leaders-researchers, policymakers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a Washington, D.C-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization committed to economic vitality, environmental quality, and regional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equitable Cities is committed to bringing community narratives, visions, and values into our research, planning, and policy recommendations through the local knowledge of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The International Socioeconomics Laboratory™ (ISL) is a global research institute made up of young adults that strives to find adequate solutions to current socio-economic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Root Policy Research is a community planning and housing research firm, providing custom, creative and high-value analysis and strategy for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Institute for International Urban Development (“I2UD”) strives to assist individuals, policy makers and local stakeholders in their efforts to strategically meet the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aretian Urban Analytics and Design is an urban design and planning consultancy delivering rigorous analysis and innovative, data-driven solutions to help cities and regions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CommunityScale is a pioneering urban planning and spatial data analysis company serving clients across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vital City is committed to the idea that our social fabric is our safety.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Center for the Living City, founded in cooperation with Jane Jacobs, is a leading global urbanist organization that expands understanding of contemporary urban life to inspire…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MODA Vi is an applied research and technology firm that helps organizations understand complex systems, improve operations, and build tools that support better decision making.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Eparque is a certified woman-owned urban planning and cultural strategy consultancy that helps cities, cultural institutions, public agencies, foundations, and community…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UrbanKind Institute is a company based out of 212 Brownsville Rd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fastcast is leading the way in data-driven environmental design and analysis, and setting new standards for access to urban planning tools and information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “On The Ground Research partners with organizations to conduct social science research focused on the criminal justice system and issues important to cities and towns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the overqualified, dignified, never satisfied hustler.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Building Salt Lake covers real estate, urban planning and development in one of the country's fastest-growing metropolitan areas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: urban research institutes. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names urban research institutes.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of urban research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name urban research institutes. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Urban research institutes based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 193 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among urban research institutes, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “urban research institutes”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names urban research institutes), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among urban research institutes, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,015 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names urban research institutes, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many urban research institutes are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 193 urban research institutes headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Urban Land Institute, headquartered in Washington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most urban research institutes?
New York leads with 22 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (10) and Cambridge (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,015 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 193 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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