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Bringing Social Science Back In: The “Big Data” Revolution and Urban Theory
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Bringing Social Science Back In: The “Big Data” Revolution and Urban Theory
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Robert J. Sampson and Mario Luis Small
Big Data for Good Cities
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Emily Talen
‘Black’ Suburbanization: American Dream or the New Banlieue?”
Kimberley S. Johnson
Can Machine Learning Be Useful for Social Science?
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Cynthia Rudin
Comments on the Spatial Dimensions of Urban Inequality
John Mollenkopf
From Data to Models that Improve Urban Policy
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Marta C. Gonzalez
Decency, Design, and Development in New York City’s Historically Black Neighborhoods
John Mollenkopf
Design Decency at the Urban Front
Harvey Molotch
Designing the Transformation of the Decent City: Theory and Practice
Aseem Inam
Dialogics
Richard Sennett
Diversity, Toleration, and Space in Metropolitan America
Thomas Sugrue
Ethnic Conflict in Urban Asia
Ashutosh Varshney
Global Politics Go Local in the American City
Jytte Klausen
Group Relations and Urban Design
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Harlem in the 2000s: Diversity, Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equity
Susan Fainstein
How the Debate over Public vs. Private Transportation Hurts Everyone
Robert Bruegmann
How to Navigate the Data Deluge: Ecometrics and the Case for the Urban Social Sciences
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Daniel O’Brien and Robert J. Sampson
Immigrant Political Representation and the Social Geography of Migration
Rafaela Dancygier
Inequality and Urban Space: Some Notes on Institutional Isolation and Social Connectedness
John Logan
Issues of Construct Validity and Reliability in Massive, Passive Data Collections
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David Lazer
Love Thy Neighbor(hood)
Michael Sorkin
Mapping the Social Geography of Urban Inequality
Nicole P. Marwell
The Multiplicities of Urban Design
Brent Ryan
Notes on Neighborhood Inequality and Urban Design
Robert J. Sampson
Open and Closed Design
Richard Sennett
Opportunities for Social Theory in the Age of Big Data
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Luís M.A. Bettencourt
An Organizational Perspective on Social Isolation
Mario Luis Small
Planning the Decent City
Paul Goldberger
The Politics of Spatial Inequality
Margaret Weir
The Promise and Perils of Big Data for Social Science Research
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Joscha Legewie
Reflections on the Decent City
Diane Davis
Six Steps Toward Inequality
Gerald Frug
Some Preliminary Thoughts on Inequality and Urban Space: Looking Back, Thinking Comparatively, Heading Forward
Diane Davis
Spatial Data Science for an Enhanced Understanding of Urban Dynamics
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Luc Anselin
The Spatial Dimensions of Inequality
Paul Jargowsky
The State of Current Knowledge about Cities and Toleration
Jennifer Hochschild
Tolerance and Intolerance of Extralegal Habitation
Liza Weinstein
Unhappiness and Urban Decline
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Ed Glaeser
Urban Cleansing: Evictions, Insecurity, and Intolerance in Global Perspective
Liza Weinstein
Urban Design and Inequality: The Case of Urban Villages in China’s Megacities
Xuefei Ren
Urban Planning and Community Data Collection Efforts in the Developing World: Data as a Facilitator
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José Lobo
Youth, the City, and Public Interventions: Challenging Patterns of Inequality and Separation
Teresa Caldeira