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Yael Nidam |
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Urban health, climate resilience, energy transition, Participatory Action Research, community-engaged HCI, data science & social science methods, communication, and storytelling with data. |
Alex Ramiller![]() |
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Land use, household mobility, eviction, property ownership |
Faisal Almogren |
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Research Interests: Gulf Urbanism, City-Building, Master Planning, Housing Policies, and Urban Morphologies |
David Amos |
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Urban design; street design; walkability; and transportation and land use |
Alli Appelbaum![]() |
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Urban governance; security; securitisation of space; security guarding; biopolitics; urban inequality; gender, sexuality and urban space; middle-class urbanism; spatial transformation; (the politics of) densification; housing; urban history; African urbanisms; India; South Africa; Johannesburg |
Arezoo Besharati![]() |
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I’m interested in urban data science, city planning, urban design, and application of computer science, machine learning and artificial intelligence in urban planning and public policy analysis. I’m especially interested in investigating new methods for urban data acquisition, processing, visualization, and advanced modeling in order to help planners and communities more effectively navigate the complex decision-making processes that shape contemporary cities. |
Abigail Cochran |
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Research Interests: Urban governance, data science, technology, international planning, and transportation |
Priscila Coli![]() |
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Urbanization in the Global South, Criminal Actors, Informal Governance, Peripheries |
Savannah Cox |
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Science and Technology Studies; Resilience; Urban Climate Governance; Economic Sociology |
Nathaniel Decker |
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Real estate, affordable housing policy, disruptive technologies, and public finance |
Irene Farah Rivadeneyra![]() |
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Informal employment, urban governance, health, food systems, spatial analytics, Latin America |
Dagin Faulkner |
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Jeff Garnand |
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Chester Harvey |
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Research Interests: urban design, street spaces, active transportation, spatial cognition, geodata |
Cheng-Kai Hsu |
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Micro-mobility, mobile sensing, environmental exposure, health equity |
Shakirah Hudani![]() |
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Urban sustainability, International development, African cities, public health and city planning. |
Tamara Kerzhner![]() |
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Informal transportation, paratransit; the role of informal and informalized labour in producing urban services and urban space; mobility and equity in divided and diverse cities. |
Yanin Kramsky![]() |
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Spatial politics; political ecology; environmental knowledge, power, and planning; critical environmental and climate justice; intersectional feminism; queer and transgender geographies. |
Flávia Leite![]() |
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Housing markets, Land use, urbanization in the Global South, urban redevelopment and inequality |
Meiqing Li![]() |
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My research explores the intersection of sustainable transportation, travel behavior, and built environment in the United States and Asia. |
Beki McElvain![]() |
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Resilience; Disaster Governance; Development Finance; Publics; Science and Technology Studies; Critical Urban Geography |
Giselle Mendonça Abreu |
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Urbanization in the global South, urban and planning theory, urban/rural entanglements, Latin America |
Michael Montilla![]() |
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Emerging Transportation Technologies (AVs, EVs, TNCs, etc.), Equitable Access to Electric Vehicles, Sustainable Transportation and Resilient Cities, Transportation and Climate Change, Transportation and Public Health, Private Uses of Streets and Other Public Spaces, Social Ramification of AV Data Practices |
Marcel Moran![]() |
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My research interests include urban transportation, the interaction between cities and new technologies (such as shared bike and scooters), and how infrastructure for biking, walking, and transit are distributed across space. I pursue these topics through a range of methods, including the use of GIS, satellite imagery, and on-the-ground observations. |
Manuel Santana Palacios |
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Transportation and Land Use, Transportation and Urban Development, Travel Behavior, Informal Transportation, Transportation in the Developing World |
Madeleine Parker![]() |
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My research lies at the intersection of housing, land use, travel behavior, and public transit. |
Tyler Pullen![]() |
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Affordable and supportive housing development, off-site and industrialized construction, energy efficient building design, public participation, alternative homeownership models |
Lana Salman![]() |
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Rocio Sanchez-Moyano![]() |
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Housing; housing demography; barriers to homeownership; low-income and minority housing and neighborhoods |
Laura Schmahmann![]() |
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My research focuses on commercial gentrification and business displacement, particularly within urban industrial precincts, as well as the geography of innovation and economic development narratives which shape the location of employment within urban areas and regions. |
Nick Shatan![]() |
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Community ownership and governance of land and housing; race, finance, risk, and materialities; politics of knowledge and participation; US housing policy; critical GIS and mixed methodologies |
Taesoo Song![]() |
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Housing Policy; Systemic Inequities in Gentrification, Displacement, and Eviction; Neighborhood Changes; Inclusive Urban and Community Development |
Clara Turner |
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Regional labor markets, cross-border economies, migration and labor policy, economic geography |
Liubing Xie |
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Megumi Yamanaka |
My research interests include urban mobility, Bus Rapid Transit, public transport, non-motorized modes, planning, design, policy, social issues, demand modelling, and environmental impacts. |
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Pavan Yedavalli |
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My research interests include smart cities, urban mobility, wireless IoT systems and drones in cities, urban data science and informatics, intelligent transportation systems, urban mapping, and travel behavior. |
Aaron Young![]() |
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My research in City & Regional Planning and Critical Geography addresses the urban land question in South Africa. By this angle of approach, I am interested in land and urban space not only as the physical terrain upon which contested claims are directed, embedded and performed, but also as an expanded field of meaning for local and transnational politics. |