I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is I’ve been appointed Chair of USC’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis. The bad news is I’ve been appointed Chair of USC’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial An…
My article, “Urban Science Beyond Samples: Up-to-Date Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World,” has just been published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. You can download it open…
My article “What Kind of Home Is the Shared Home? The Social-Transactional Spectrum in Platform-Mediated Homemaking Among Strangers,” co-authored with Julia Harten and Madison Lore, has just been published in the International Journal of Ho…
In early April, I flew to Europe where I’ll be spending the remainder of my post-tenure sabbatical. For the past two weeks I’ve been in Vienna, hosted by the Complexity Science Hub. Thank you to Rafael Prieto-Curiel for inviting me, and tha…
The 2026 AAG annual meeting was in San Francisco this week and represents something like coming full circle for me. My very first AAG meeting was in SF 10 years ago while I was a grad student at Berkeley. I didn’t really know what I was doi…
The Nobel Sustainability Trust has announced that our team has won the 2025 Nobel Sustainability Award for “outstanding research and development for intelligent and sustainable urban solutions” for our Global Observatory of Healthy and Sust…
How many street intersections do you see in this figure? I have a new article published this week in Transactions in GIS (open-access) and its first sentence sums it up: “Counting is hard.” Hear me out… it really is! Most real-world objects…
I am happy to share that I was awarded the Zephyr Foundation’s 2025 Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for my work on OSMnx. This annual award recognizes a project that has had a positive impact on the fields or transportation and/or l…
I recently co-authored an article, “Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators: Collaborative Development of an Open Science Toolkit for Calculating and Reporting on Urban Indicators Internationally,” now published in Environment and Pl…
OSMnx version 2.0.0 has been released. This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package’s API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully typ…
OSMnx v2.0.0 is targeted for release later in 2024. This major release includes some breaking changes (including removing previously deprecated functionality) that are not backwards compatible with v1. See the migration guide and reference
I recently published an article in Transfers Magazine with Billy Riggs questioning some of the received wisdom about one-way streets and efficiency. This builds on our recent research published in JPER modeling vehicle distance traveled bef…