Research

WORKING PAPERS

When are D-graded neighborhoods not degraded?

Greening the legacy of redlining

This paper explores how geography shapes the legacy of redlining, the systemic mortgage lending bias against minority us neighborhoods. On average, redlined neighborhoods…
When are D-graded neighborhoods not degraded?

Trees of green

Constructing panesl of tree canopy from aerial imagery

This paper develops a fully-automated workflow for constructing panels of tree canopy from high-resolution multispectral imagery with limited near-infrared (NIR) training…
Trees of green

City buzz

Face-to-Face interaction and the urban environment

with Javier Alonso , Dani Arribas-Bel , Souneil Park , and Diego Puga

We measure face-to-face interactions as the coincidence in space and time of two cellphone users who have previously called each other or who start doing so after the event.…
City buzz

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Discovery of the American Tramp

Labels, Attitudes, and Outcomes of the Poor in 19th Century America

with Christian Maruthiah

The Park Movement and the Urban Mortality Transition

This project studies how the improvements in the urban physical space (the park movement) implemented between 1850 and 1950 contributed to the urban mortality transition in…
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