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29 30<link rel="icon" href="/files/img/favicon.ico"> 31<link rel="stylesheet" href="/files/css/custom-styles.css"> 32 33</head> 34<body><header class="site-header"> 35 36 <div class="wrapper"> 37 <a class="site-title" rel="author" href="/">Geoff Boeing</a> 38 <nav class="site-nav"> 39 <input type="checkbox" id="nav-trigger" /> 40 <label for="nav-trigger"> 41 <span class="menu-icon"></span> 42 </label> 43 44 <div class="nav-items"> 45 <a class="nav-item" href="/cv/">CV</a> 46 <a class="nav-item" href="/research/">Research</a> 47 <a class="nav-item" href="/notes/">Notes</a> 48 <a class="nav-item" href="/lab/">Lab</a> 49 <a class="nav-item" href="/media/">Media</a> 50 <a class="nav-item" href="/contact/">Contact</a> 51</div> 52 53 </nav> 54 </div> 55</header> 56<main class="page-content" aria-label="Content"> 57 <div class="wrapper"> 58 <article class="post"> 59 60 <header class="post-header"> 61 <h1 class="post-title">Research</h1> 62 </header> 63 64 <div class="post-content"> 65 <p>My research explores the spatial outcomes of urban planning. I am interested in 66how we shape the urban form that shapes our livesâand, in turn, how we can plan 67a better urban future.</p> 68 69<p>I develop analytics to understand cities using methods spanning network 70analysis, geospatial data science, simulation modeling, machine learning, and 71AI. Ongoing projects measure <a href="/2025/11/nobel-sustainability-award/">access</a> to daily living needs in cities 72around the world to target interventions, explore how urban planning creates 73<a href="/2019/09/urban-street-network-orientation/">spatial order</a> through <a href="/2020/11/off-grid-back-again/">street design</a>, and investigate how technology 74shapes the modern <a href="/2020/02/housing-search-big-data/">housing search</a> to reproduce traditional inequalities 75and residential segregation.</p> 76 77<h2 id="representative-publications">Representative publications</h2> 78 79<p>I have published peer-reviewed articles in journals across scientific and 80policy disciplines. Here are a few representative papers. See my <a href="/cv/">CV</a> or 81<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xaKBPQQAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a> for a complete listing.</p> 82 83<ul> 84 <li> 85 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>. 2026. Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network 86Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World. 87<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083261446991"><em>Environment and Planning B</em></a>, published online ahead of print.</p> 88 </li> 89 <li> 90 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>. 2025. Modeling and Analyzing Urban Networks and Amenities with 91OSMnx. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.70009"><em>Geographical Analysis</em></a> 57 (4), 567-577.</p> 92 </li> 93 <li> 94 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong> and J Ha. 2024. Resilient by Design: Simulating Street Network 95Disruptions across Every Urban Area in the World. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2024.104
95016"><em>Transportation Research 96Part A</em></a> 182, 104016.</p> 97 </li> 98 <li> 99 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>, Y Lu, and C Pilgram. 2023. Local Inequities in the Relative 100Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221145403"><em>Urban 101Studies</em></a> 60 (12), 2351-2368.</p> 102 </li> 103 <li> 104 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>, et al. 2022. Using Open Data and Open-Source Software to 105Develop Spatial Indicators of Urban Design and Transport Features for 106Achieving Healthy and Sustainable Cities. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00072-9"><em>The Lancet Global Health</em></a> 10710 (6), 907-918.</p> 108 </li> 109 <li> 110 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>. 2021. Off the Grid⦠and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of 111American Street Network Planning and Design. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1819382"><em>Journal of the American 112Planning Association</em></a> 87 (1), 123-137.</p> 113 </li> 114 <li> 115 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>. 2020. Online Rental Housing Market Representation and the 116Digital Reproduction of Urban Inequality. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19869678"><em>Environment and Planning A</em></a> 11752 (2), 449-468.</p> 118 </li> 119 <li> 120 <p><strong>Boeing G</strong>. 2019. Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, 121Configuration, and Entropy. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1"><em>Applied Network Science</em></a> 4 (1), 67.</p> 122 </li> 123</ul> 124 125<h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> 126 127<p>My research has won several awards. Here are a few of them. See my <a href="/cv/">CV</a> for 128a complete listing.</p> 129 130<ul> 131 <li><a href="/2026/03/aag-sam-award/">AAG SAM Emerging Scholar Award</a>, 2026</li> 132 <li><a href="/2025/11/nobel-sustainability-award/">Nobel Sustainability Award</a> for outstanding research, 2025</li> 133 <li><a href="/2025/03/zephyr-foundation-award/">Zephyr Foundation Technical Achievement Award</a>, 2025</li> 134 <li><a href="/2020/11/off-grid-back-again/">Stough-Johansson Springer Award</a>, best paper, 2020</li> 135 <li><a href="/2019/09/urban-street-network-orientation/">Information Is Beautiful Awards</a> shortlist, 2018</li> 136 <li><a href="/publications/systems-methods-analyzing-requirements/">Accenture Inventor Innovation Award</a>, 2010</li> 137</ul> 138 139<!-- markdownlint-disable MD013 --> 140 141 </div> 142 143</article> 144 145 </div> 146 </main><link id="fa-stylesheet" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fortawesome/[email protected]/css/all.min.css"> 147 148<footer class="site-footer h-card"> 149 <data class="u-url" value="/"></data> 150 151 <div class="wrapper"> 152 153 <div class="social-links"><ul class="social-media-list"><li> 154 <a rel="me" href="https://github.com/gboeing" target="_blank" title="GitHub"> 155 <span class="grey fa-brands fa-github fa-lg"></span> 156 </a> 157 </li><li> 158 <a rel="me" href="https://linkedin.com/in/gboeing/" target="_blank" title="LinkedIn"> 159 <span class="grey fa-brands fa-linkedin fa-lg"></span> 160 </a> 161 </li><li> 162 <a rel="me" href="https://bsky.app/profile/geoffboeing.com" target="_blank" title="Bluesky"> 163 <span class="grey fa-brands fa-bluesky fa-lg"></span> 164 </a> 165 </li><li> 166 <a rel="me" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1851-6411" target="_blank" title="ORCID"> 167 <span class="grey fa-brands fa-orcid fa-lg"></span> 168 </a> 169 </li><li> 170 <a rel="me" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xaKBPQQAAAAJ" target="_blank" title="Google Scholar"> 171 <span class="grey fa-brands fa-google-scholar fa-lg"></span> 172 </a> 173 </li> 174 <li> 175 <a href="https://geoffboeing.com/feed/index.xml" target="_blank" title="Subscribe to syndication feed"> 176 <svg class="svg-icon grey" viewbox="0 0 16 16"> 177 <path d="M12.8 16C12.8 8.978 7.022 3.2 0 3.2V0c8.777 0 16 7.223 16 16h-3.2zM2.194 178 11.61c1.21 0 2.195.985 2.195 2.196 0 1.21-.99 2.194-2.2 2.194C.98 16 0 15.017 0 179 13.806c0-1.21.983-2.195 2.194-2.195zM10.606 180 16h-3.11c0-4.113-3.383-7.497-7.496-7.497v-3.11c5.818 0 10.606 4.79 10.606 10.607z" 181 /> 182 </svg> 183 </a> 184 </li> 185</ul> 186</div> 187 188 </div> 189 190</footer> 191 192</body> 193 194</html>
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