Published Work
Research published in urban planning and regional science journals
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Waiting in the Heat
Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology · Forthcoming
With Kristen Brown, Tristan Arias, Parisa Najafian, and Farzad Hashemi. Introduces a low-cost data-collection method for evaluating environmental exposure at bus stops.
A Framework for Siting Public EV Charging During Renewable-Aligned Hours
iScience · 2026 · Volume 29, Issue 9
With Nathaniel Williams, Salomon A. Mendoza, and Kristen E. Brown. Develops a framework for locating public electric-vehicle charging infrastructure during hours aligned with renewable-energy availability.
Walkable but Not Walkable?
Sustainable Cities and Society · 2026 · Volume 148, Article 107622
With R. J. Lee, S. Rueda, Kristen Brown, Wei Zhai, and E. Coleman. Examines the mismatch between urban heat and pedestrian-oriented environments in efforts to promote equitable climate resilience.
The ENVI-met Model for Evaluating Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies in Vulnerable Neighborhoods
Urban Climate · 2026 · Volume 67, Article 102893
With P. Najafian, F. Hashemi, F. Khayatian, Q. Van Tran, and S. Mehta. Evaluates urban heat mitigation strategies through a case study of San Antonio’s Historic Westside.
Prioritizing Mitigation Efforts for Intra-Urban Heat Vulnerability
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association · 2026
With Kristen E. Brown and Wei Zhai. Develops a framework for prioritizing heat-vulnerability mitigation using San Antonio, Texas, as a case study.
Year-Round Heat Exposure and Structural Spatial Vulnerability
Sustainable Cities and Society · 2025
With Q. Van Tran, P. Najafian, F. Hashemi, and T. E. Morakinyo. Examines year-round heat exposure and structural spatial vulnerability in San Antonio.
Evaluating the Performance of Cool Pavement in San Antonio
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · 2025
With Neil Debagge, Wei Zhai, RJ Lee, Allison Pineda, and collaborators. Evaluates San Antonio’s cool-pavement pilot as an urban heat mitigation measure.
Zoning for Infill Development
Journal of the American Planning Association · 2025
With Christine Quattro. Studies San Antonio’s create-your-own zoning district and its implications for infill development.
Housing Perceptions and Code Enforcement
2024
An assessment of demolition orders using street view imagery and machine intelligence. Combines deep learning on Street View imagery with machine learning to predict demolition orders and assess perception bias in code enforcement.
Quantifying the Spatial Aggregation Bias of Urban Heat Data
Urban Climate · 2024
Shows how aggregated heat metrics lose intra-urban heat-island detail and can introduce equity-relevant bias.
Spatially Targeted Employment Programs
Journal of Regional Science · 2023
With Juan Eberhard and Patricio Aroca. Examines how nationwide employment programs can underperform when they ignore the spatial nature of the problem.
Housing Price Indices from Online Listings
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science · 2022
Proposes sampling weights to address spatial sampling bias when estimating housing-price indices from online listings.
Transit-Oriented Development and Residential Displacement
Cities · 2021
With Dwayne Baker and Andrew Greenlee. Provides a framework for predicting residential displacement from transit-oriented development using Chicago’s Red Line extension.
Immigrant Employment Trajectories
Small Business Economics · 2020
With Mikaela Backman and Francisco Rowe. Studies immigrants’ differing employment trajectories in Sweden by country of origin.
School Attendance Thresholds and Housing Prices
Journal of Regional Science · 2019
With Daniel McMillen and Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía. Presents causal evidence of housing-price appreciation around arbitrary school-attendance distance thresholds for Chicago magnet schools.
A Housing Price Index for Small Metropolitan Areas
Regional Science and Urban Economics · 2018
With Geoffrey Hewings. Proposes a matching-estimator and Fisher-like housing-price index for small metropolitan areas.
Demand for Housing Attributes in Chile
International Journal of Strategic Property Management · 2018
With Dusan Paredes. Estimates demand for housing attributes in Chile to inform public-housing policy.
Retirement Decisions in the Swedish Labor Market
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie · 2018
With Özge Öner and Johan Klaesson. Characterizes factors influencing retirement decisions in Sweden’s labor market.
Estimating Where Displaced Residents Relocate
Applied Geography · 2016
With Andrew Greenlee. Offers a big-data method to estimate where residents displaced by urban renewal relocate.
Housing Market Inflation Measures
El Trimestre Económico · 2012
With Patricio Aroca. Develops spatially and temporally consistent inflation measures for housing markets.