Geoff Boeing

University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626

United States

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1.

Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2019
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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City Planning, Urban Form, Urban Design, Urban Morphology, OpenStreetMap, Python, Data Science, Gis, Geospatial, Spatial Analysis, Entropy, Orientation, Configuration, Network Analysis, Street Networks, Graph Theory, Transportation, Transportation Planning, Data Visualization

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We Live in a Motorized Civilization: Robert Moses Replies to Robert Caro

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2021
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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urban planning, new york, robert moses, urban history, urban renewal, modernism, urban form, transportation

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Visual Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Chaos, Fractals, Self-Similarity and the Limits of Prediction

Systems, 4(4), 37, 2016, DOI: 10.3390/systems4040037
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2016
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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visualization, nonlinear systems, dynamics, chaos, fractal, attractor, bifurcation, cobweb plot, phase diagram

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A Multi-Scale Analysis of 27,000 Urban Street Networks: Every US City, Town, Urbanized Area, and Zillow Neighborhood

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, DOI: 10.1177/2399808318784595
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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network analysis, street network, graph theory, neighborhood, big data, density, python, urban form, land use, networks, GIS, city planning, urban design, geospatial, transportation, OpenStreetMap, OSMnx, resilience, urban morphology, Zillow, centrality, connectivity, betweenness centrality

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New Insights into Rental Housing Markets Across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings

Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0739456X16664789
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 May 2016 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2016
Geoff Boeing and Paul Waddell
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy and University of California, Berkeley - Department of City and Regional Planning
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Housing, Big Data, Web Scraping, Craigslist, Urban Economics, Data Science, GIS

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OSMnx: New Methods for Acquiring, Constructing, Analyzing, and Visualizing Complex Street Networks

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2017
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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street, network, urban design, urban form, transportation, land use, python, openstreetmap, complexity, routing, graph, GIS, visualization, centrality, complex networks, resilience

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Exploring Urban Form Through Openstreetmap Data: A Visual Introduction

In: Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm (pp. 167-184), edited by J. Hollander and A. Sussman. Abingdon, England: Routledge. ISBN 9780367435554.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Oct 2020
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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Cartography, Complexity, Data Science, GIS, Network Analysis, Network Science, Nolli Map, OpenStreetMap, Orientation, OSMnx, Polar Histogram, Python, Rose Diagram, Smart Cities, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Networks, Street Network, Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Form, Psychology,Urban Environment

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Neighborhood Change, One Pint at a Time: The Impact of Local Characteristics on Craft Breweries

In: Untapped: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer (pp. 155-176), edited by N. G. Chapman, J. S. Lellock, and C. D. Lippard. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press. ISBN 978-1-943665-68-6
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2017
Jesus M. Barajas, Geoff Boeing and Julie Wartell
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy and University of California, San Diego
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craft beer, brewing, neighborhood, gentrification, displacement, urban planning, economic development, revitalization

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OSMnx: A Python Package to Work with Graph-Theoretic OpenStreetMap Street Networks

Journal of Open Source Software, 2 (12), 2017, DOI:10.21105/joss.00215
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 16 Jun 2017
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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python, openstreetmap, OSMnx, networks, network analysis, urban planning, urban design, urban form, urban morphology, GIS, geospatial

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Methods and Measures for Analyzing Complex Street Networks and Urban Form

Number of pages: 236 Posted: 05 Aug 2017
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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complexity, complex systems, cities, urban planning, urban design, urban morphology, transportation, built environment, street networks, network analysis, resilience, nonlinearity, connectivity, centrality, topology, urban form

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Urban Analytics: History, Trajectory, and Critique

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 May 2021
Geoff Boeing, Michael Batty, Shan Jiang and Lisa Schweitzer
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, University College London, Tufts University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Urban Planning
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Big Data, Computer Science, Critical Theory, Data Science, Epistemology, Ethics, Geospatial, Machine Learning, Network Science, Physics, Privacy, Simulation, Smart Cities, Spatiotemporal, Statistics, Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Geography, Urban Informatics

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How Our Neighborhoods Lost Food, and How They Can Get It Back

Progressive Planning, No. 206 (Winter), 35-37
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 01 May 2016
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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urban planning, urban design, food, public health, neighborhood, sustainability

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Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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street network, urban planning, urban form, urban design, transportation,civil engineering, neighborhood, big data, network science, GIS, spatial analysis, urban morphology, grid, GHG, VMT, sustainability, urban sprawl, density, walkability, livability, healthy cities, climate change

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Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design

Urban Design International. doi: 10.1057/s41289-018-0072-1
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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complexity, urban form, urban design, networks, fractals, neighborhood

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LEED-ND and Livability Revisited

Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 27 (1), 31-55, 2014
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 May 2016
Geoff Boeing, Daniel Church, Haley Hubbard, Julie Mickens and Lili Rudis
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley
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LEED, LEED-ND, livability, sustainability, urban planning, urban design, neighborhood, development

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Spatial Information and the Legibility of Urban Form: Big Data in Urban Morphology

Forthcoming, International Journal of Information Management, DOI/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.09.009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Oct 2019
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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Cartography, Complexity, Data Science, GIS, Network Analysis, Network Science, Nolli Map, OpenStreetMap, Orientation, OSMnx, Polar Histogram, Python, Rose Diagram, Smart Cities, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Networks, Street Network, Transportation, Urban Design

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The Morphology and Circuity of Walkable and Drivable Street Networks

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2019
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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street network, circuity, network analysis, GIS, OpenStreetMap, urban morphology, urban planning, urban design, cities, transportation, walkability, driving, pedestrian, urban studies, geospatial, python, accessibility, modeling, land use, simulation

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GIS and Computational Notebooks

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Geoff Boeing and Daniel Arribas-Bel
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy and University of Liverpool
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computational notebook,computational social science,containerization,Docker,geocomputation,geography,geospatial,GIS,interactive computing,Jupyter,literate programming,open data,open science,open source,platform,Python,replication,reproducibility,scientific computing

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Understanding Cities Through Networks and Flows

Berkeley Planning Journal, 28 (1) 2017
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 12 Feb 2017
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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complexity, networks, complex systems, cities, urban planning, nonlinear, modeling

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Online Rental Housing Market Representation and the Digital Reproduction of Urban Inequality

Boeing, G. 2019. Online Rental Housing Market Representation and the Digital Reproduction of Urban Inequality. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Feb 2020
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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craigslist, critical GIS, demographics, digital divide, displacement, gentrification, geospatial, GIS, housing market, housing policy, housing search, housing vouchers, inequality, rental housing, residential mobility, residential sorting, segregation, smart cities, urban economics, technology

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The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building

Transactions in GIS 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12678
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Sep 2020
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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GIS, Open Source, Open Science, Open Data, Open Street Map, Social Science, Urban Theory, Geographic Data Science, Urban Geography, Reproducibility, Replication, Network Science, Network Theory, Spatial Networks, Street Networks, Transportation, GIScience, Geography

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Honolulu Rail Transit: International Lessons from Barcelona in Linking Urban Form, Design, and Transportation

Planext, Vol. 2, 28-47, 2016
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 May 2016 Last Revised: 07 May 2016
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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barcelona, spain, honolulu, hawaii, urban design, urban planning, transportation, public transit, rail, land use, livability

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The Effects of Inequality, Density, and Heterogeneous Residential Preferences on Urban Displacement and Metropolitan Structure: An Agent-Based Model

Urban Science, 2 (3), 76. doi:10.3390/urbansci2030076
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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agglomeration, gentrification, displacement, complex systems, social justice, land use, zoning, economic development, urban planning, complexity, inequality, ABM, agent-based model, modeling, simulation, emergence, self-organization, urban sprawl, housing

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The Relative Circuity of Walkable and Drivable Urban Street Networks

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting. January 7–11, Washington, DC
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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street network, circuity, network analysis, GIS, OpenStreetMap, urban morphology, urban planning, urban design, cities, transportation, walkability, driving, pedestrian, urban studies, geospatial, python, accessibility, modeling, land use, simulation

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Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2021
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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GIS, Global Human Settlement Layer, Street Networks, Spatial Networks, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Urban Morphology, Urban Geography, Transportation Planning, Transportation Geography, Transportation Planning, OSMnx, OpenStreetMap, Network Science

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Housing Search in the Age of Big Data: Smarter Cities or the Same Old Blind Spots?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Mar 2020
Geoff Boeing, Max Besbris, Ariela Schachter and John Seungmin Kuk
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, Rice University, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Oklahoma - Department of Political Science
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bias, big data, craigslist, critical GIS, digital divide, economic geography, filter bubbles, gentrification, housing, housing law, housing market, housing policy, housing supply, housing search, inequality

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Pynamical: Model and Visualize Discrete Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Chaos, and Fractals

Journal of Open Source Education, 1(1), 15 (2018)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 13 Jul 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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chaos, fractal, nonlinearity, nonlinear systems, attractor, bifurcation, chaotic, dynamical, geometry, mathematics, modeling, simulation, physics, prediction, python, visualization, systems analysis

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Urban Street Network Analysis in a Computational Notebook

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Feb 2020
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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accessibility, civil engineering, computer science, geocomputation, GIS, jupyter, network science, notebook, open street map, osmnx, pedagogy, python, road network, routing, spatial analysis, street network, transportation, urban analytics, urban informatics, urban geography, urban planning

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Clustering to Reduce Spatial Data Set Size

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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machine learning, DBSCAN, clustering, python, scikit-learn, dimensionality reduction, transportation, GIS, geospatial, data science, spatial analysis, big data, k-means

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Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jan 2023
Geoff Boeing, Yougeng Lu and Clemens Pilgram
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California and University of Southern California
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air pollution, air quality, driving, environmental justice, freeways, geographically weighted regression, healthy cities, highways, infrastructure, los angeles, pollution, public health, racial justice, simulation, social justice, spatial analysis, transport, transportation, urban planning

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Rental Housing Spot Markets: How Online Information Exchanges Can Supplement Transacted-Rents Data

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Mar 2020
Geoff Boeing, Jake Wegmann and Junfeng Jiao
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas at Austin - School of Architecture
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affordability, census, craigslist,data exhaust,economic geography,economic mobility, fair market rent, gentrification, vacancy, HUD, information asymmetries, platform real estate, rental data, rent control, residential mobility, section 8

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Planarity and Street Network Representation in Urban Form Analysis

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (2018)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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GIS, geospatial, street network, network analysis, network science, graph theory, transportation, routing, urban planning, urban design, urban morphology, urban studies, spatial planarity, nonplanar, urban fabric, modeling, simulation, traffic

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Commentary: A Road Map for Future Data-Driven Urban Planning and Environmental Health Research

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 May 2024
Georgia Mary Coleridge Dyer, Sasha Khomenko, Deepti Adlakha, Susan C. Anenberg, Julianna Angelova, Martin Behnisch, Geoff Boeing, Xuan Chen, Marta Cirach, Kees de Hoogh, Ana V. Diez-Roux, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Benjamin Flueckiger, Antonio Gasparrini, Tamara Iungman, Haneen Khreis, Michelle Kondo, Pierre Masselot, Robert McDonald, Federica Montana, Richard Mitchell, Natalie Mueller, M. Omar Nawaz, Evelise Pereira, Enrico Pisoni, Rafael Prieto Curiel, Jose J. Ramasco, Nazanin Rezaei, Diego Rybski, Rossano Schifanella, Saif Shabou, Lambed Tata, Hannes Taubenböck, Cathryn Tonne, Daniel Velázquez-Cortés, James Woodcock, Qin Zhang and Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Delft University of Technology, George Washington University - Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Florida Gulf Coast University, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER) - Research Area Spatial Information and Modelling, University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), University of Basel - Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Drexel University - Urban Health Collaborative, Western Sydney University, University of Basel - Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge, affiliation not provided to SSRN, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, The Nature Conservancy, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Glasgow, affiliation not provided to SSRN, George Washington University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, European Union - European Commission Joint Research Centre-Ispra, University College London - Department of Mathematics, Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Turin, World Resources Institute, University of Cambridge, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
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urban and transport planning, urban environmental health research, urban indicators, urban data inventory, GeoAI, urban policy

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Converting One-Way Streets to Two-Way Streets to Improve Transportation Network Efficiency and Reduce Vehicle Distance Traveled

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
Geoff Boeing and William Riggs
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy and University of San Francisco - School of Management
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urban planning, urban design, transportation, civil engineering, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, AVs, EVs, network analysis, street networks, sustainability, ride-hailing, smart cities, street conversion, civic tech, driving

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Urban Street Network Design and Transport-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions around the World

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Jan 2024
Geoff Boeing, Clemens Pilgram and Yougeng Lu
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California and University of Southern California
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air pollution, cars, civil engineering, climate change, CO2 emissions, driving, GDP, GHSL, GIS, global human settlement layer, greenhouse gas, infrastructure, OpenStreetMap, street networks, transport planning, urban design, urban development, urban form, urban geography, urbanization,urban planning

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Resilient by Design: Simulating Street Network Disruptions across Every Urban Area in the World

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Mar 2024
Geoff Boeing and Jaehyun Ha
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy and University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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cities, civil engineering, climate change, connectivity, disaster planning, disasters, earthquakes, flooding, global warming, network design, network science, resilience, robustness, sea level rise, simulation, street networks, sustainability, terrorism, transportation engineering, urban design

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Street Network Models and Measures for Every U.S. City, County, Urbanized Area, Census Tract, and Zillow-Defined Neighborhood

Urban Sci. 2019, 3, 28
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Mar 2019
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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street networks, graphs, network science, OpenStreetMap, urban planning, transportation, civil engineering, network theory, graph theory, complex networks, urban design, urban form, urban morphology, built environment, walkability, livability, urban studies, networks, graphml, GIS, geospatial

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Estimating Local Daytime Population Density from Census and Payroll Data

Regional Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Jun 2018
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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GIS, Spatial Analysis, Population, Density, Data Science, Visualization, LEHD, LODES, Census

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Topological Graph Simplification Solutions to the Street Intersection Miscount Problem

Number of pages: 22
Geoff Boeing
University of Southern California - Sol Price School of Public Policy
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data science, GIS, GIScience, graph simplification, graph theory, network science, OpenStreetMap, OSMnx, Python, spatial data science, spatial networks, street networks, transport engineering, transport geography, transport planning, urban design, urban form, urban geography, urban morphology, urban planning, urban science