Urban Studies: Faculty publications
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Faculty Publications
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The New Third Generation : Post-1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of AssimilationNow is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post-1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step. We compare the household characteristics of post-1965, second-generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third generation” in 2010.
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Local policy proposals can bridge Latino and (most) white Americans' response to immigrationIn the past 15 years, the adoption of subnational immigration policies in the United States, such as those established by individual states, has gone from nearly zero to over 300 per year. These include welcoming policies aimed at attracting and incorporating immigrants, as well as unwelcoming policies directed at denying immigrants access to public resources and services.
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Pushing the conversation about assimilation forwardEmpirically, the essays each point out questions and populations that the authors see as warranting more attention in the book. Some critiques related to the populations that I sampled. Song argued that it would have been fruitful to give more attention to the Asian and Latino established respondents in order to explore the kinds of social pressures they face to be more or less “ethnic”.
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Data-driven Urban Energy Simulation (DUE-S): A framework for integrating engineering simulation and machine learning methods in a multi-scale urban energy modeling workflowThe world is rapidly urbanizing, and the energy intensive built environment is becoming increasingly responsible for the world’s energy consumption and associated environmental emissions. As a result, significant efforts have been put forth to develop methods that can accurately model and characterize building energy consumption in cities.
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Racialized Recovery: Postforeclosure Pathways in Boston NeighborhoodsFollowing the Great Recession, homeownership rates declined precipitously, raising concerns for the stability and well–being of neighborhoods. While many studies document shifts in household constraints, this article draws from foreclosure records from 2006 to 2011, subsequent transactions, tax exemption filings, and maintenance data in Boston, Massachusetts to show how the foreclosure crisis altered the landscape of ownership and unfolded differentially across hard–hit neighborhoods.
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Jewish Girls' Street Peddling in Gilded Age Philadelphia: Ethnic Niche, Family Strategy, and Sexual DangerHistorians of US cities in the Gilded Age have treated children's street work as a boys' domain, but many girls worked in the streets as well. Drawing on the case records of the Philadelphia Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, this article focuses on Jewish girl street peddlers.
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Hiding within racial hierarchies: how undocumented immigrants make residential decisions in an American cityIn the United States, the residential segregation of Latinos from whites has persisted but has fallen between Latinos and blacks. Demographers offer the size of the Latino population that is undocumented as one potential explanation for these patterns.
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The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San FranciscoUsing a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control in San Francisco to study its impacts on tenants and landlords.
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Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco’s Rent Control ExpansionSteadily rising housing rents in many of the United States’ large, productive cities have brought the issue of affordable housing to the forefront of the policy debate and reignited the discussion over expanding or enacting rent control provisions.
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Who Wants Affordable Housing in Their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low--Income Property DevelopmentWe nonparametrically estimate spillovers of properties financed by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) onto neighborhood residents by developing a new difference-in differences style estimator.
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The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score GapsThe authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and English language arts (ELA) tests administered to public school students from 2009 to 2013.
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Racial Segregation and School Poverty in the United States, 1999–2016Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to school poverty.
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Lessons from New York City's Small Schools of Choice about High School Features that Promote Graduation for Disadvantaged StudentsThe present paper uses a rich dataset based on naturally‐occurring lotteries for 68 new small non‐selective high schools in New York City, which we refer to as small schools of choice (SSCs), to address two related questions: () What high school features are promising levers for increasing graduation rates for disadvantaged students?
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SynCity: Using open data to create a synthetic city of hourly building energy estimates by integrating data-driven and physics-based methodsCities officials are increasingly interested in understanding spatial and temporal energy patterns of the built environment to facilitate their city’s transition to a low-carbon future.
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Code of the Tweet: Urban Gang Violence in the Social Media AgeAcademics, criminal justice professionals, and news outlets have warned that gang-associated youth use social media to taunt rivals and trade insults in ways that cause offline retaliation.
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Ejidos, Urbanization, and the Production of Inequality in Formerly Agricultural Lands, Guadalajara, MexicoThe ejido is an institution of communal land tenure and governance administered by the Mexican government.
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Gentrification without Segregation? Race, Immigration, and Renewal in a Diversifying CityResearch on how neighborhood racial composition affects where gentrification unfolds yields mixed conclusions, but these studies either capture broad national trends or highly segregated cities.
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Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in PhiladelphiaDrawing from sociological theory and research on residential mobility and neighborhood stratification, which primarily explain urban decline and persistent segregation, the authors propose a framework for examining residential displacement in the context of gentrification.
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Gentrification, Geography, and the Declining Enrollment of Neighborhood SchoolsThis study examines patterns and relations between gentrification and urban schooling across U.S. cities using longitudinal data from 2000 to 2014.
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Gentrification and Academic Achievement: A Review of Recent ResearchResearch in the neighborhood effects tradition has primarily concerned itself with understanding the consequences of growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods.
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The Moderating Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Preschool Effectiveness: Evidence From the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten ExperimentThis study drew data from a randomized trial of a statewide prekindergarten program in Tennessee and presents new evidence on the impacts of preK on third-grade achievement using administrative data on children's neighborhood environments.
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Racial Segregation and School Poverty in the United States, 1999–2016Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to school poverty.
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Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public SchoolsThis study examines the effects of gentrification on exclusionary punishment in urban schools across the United States.
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Policing Gentrification or Policing Displacement? Testing the Relationship between Order Maintenance Policing and Neighbourhood Change in Los AngelesUrban scholars increasingly contend that local police departments play a central role in facilitating neighbourhood change. Recent critics warn that 'order maintenance' policing and other low-level law enforcement tactics are deployed in gentrifying areas to displace 'disorderly' populations.
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Shared and Crowded Housing in the Bay Area: Where Gentrification and the Housing Crisis Meet COVID-19Amid the growing affordable housing crisis and widespread gentrification over the last decade, people have been moving less than before and increasingly live in shared and often crowded households across the U.S. Crowded housing has various negative health implications, including stress, sleep disorders, and infectious diseases.
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Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the Twenty-First CenturyThe literature on the persistence of racial residential segregation in the United States has made significant progress by moving beyond traditional explanations—socioeconomic differences, preferences, and discrimination—to focus on the complex ways in which these factors interact with the multistage process of residential sorting.
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Social Segregation and Everyday Hindutva in Middle IndiaFollowing the 2014 general election that brought Modi to power, enormous attention was paid by many commentators and analysts to the appeal of Modi to a young and restless electorate, particularly young men aspiring to jobs and recognition in a rapidly growing economy.
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School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black MetropolisLargely overlooked in the empirical literature on gentrification is the potential impact that school closures play in this process.
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Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday LifeHow everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion
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Expelled from public memory: Cato Manor and the segregation of memory in South AfricaExpulsions of populations from ancestral land were a cornerstone of apartheid rule and urban planning.
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Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysisLiving in a disadvantaged neighborhood has long been known to adversely affect children's academic achievement.
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It Is Surprisingly Difficult to Measure Income SegregationRecent studies have shown that U.S. Census– and American Community Survey (ACS)–based estimates of income segregation are subject to upward finite sampling bias (Logan et al. 2018; Logan et al. 2020; Reardon et al. 2018).
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Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial NarrativesSpatial narratives help us to organize experiences and give them meaning. Previous approaches to understanding geographies in textual sources focus on geoparsing to automatically identify place names and allocate them to coordinates.
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Systematic Social Observation at Scale: Using Crowdsourcing and Computer Vision to Measure Visible Neighborhood ConditionsAnalysis of neighborhood environments is important for understanding inequality.
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Why School Desegregation Still Matters (a Lot)Understanding how and why rising racial and economic segregation impacts achievement gaps is critical to closing them.
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Evaluating building decarbonization potential in U.S. cities under emissions based building performance standards and load flexibility requirementsIn an effort to decarbonize the built environment, municipalities across the United States are joining the National Building Performance Standard Coalition.
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Quantifying the pedestrian access potential of suburban street networkThe United States largely depends on the automobile for personal transportation. This dominance has significant consequences for society over a range of issues, including the environment, public safety, public health, and equity.
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