Role of walkability, bike infrastructure, and greenspace in combatting chronic diseases: A heterogeneous ecological anal...
Quantifying the electric service panel capacities of California's residential buildings
This study seeks to quantify the size distribution of existing installed electrical service panels within California's residential buildings, a potentially significant barrier to future decarbonization efforts. A large sample of historical building permit data was collected for municipalities throughout the state, from which permitted panel upgrade...
Defining geoeconomics amid shifts in global hegemony: Critical geographies of new international conjunctures
Recent shifts in global hegemony make the need for critical geographical accounts of geoeconomics and geopolitics that much more critical. They underline that we need to come to terms with their dialectical relationships and tensions, doing so in relation to both underlying struggles over international hegemony and uneven capitalist development as ...
Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment
Anthropogenic heat (AH), i.e., waste heat from buildings to the ambient environment, increases urban air temperature and contributes to the urban heat island effect, which leads to more air-conditioning energy use and higher associated waste heat during summer, forming a positive feedback loop. This study used a bottom-up simulation approach to dev...
Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future c...
In response to increasingly severe weather conditions, optimization of building performance and investment provides an opportunity to consider co-benefits of thermal resilience during energy efficiency retrofits. This work aims to assess thermal resilience of buildings using building performance simulation to evaluate the indoor overheating risk un...
What Is in a Plan? Using Natural Language Processing to Read 461 California City General Plans
Land-use control is local and highly varied. State agencies struggle to assess plan contents. Similarly, advocacy groups and planning researchers wrestle with the length of planning documents and ability to compare across plans. The goal of this research is to (1) introduce Natural Language Processing techniques that can automate qualitative coding...
Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadva...
The compound impacts of heatwaves and power outages pose a serious indoor heat-related health risk for residents living in disadvantaged communities (DACs) with limited or no air conditioning. In this study we selected 13 heat vulnerable multifamily buildings in El Monte, in Los Angeles County, and employed CityBES to evaluate their energy and ther...
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes
Economists tend to favour price-based approaches, such as gasoline and carbon taxes, to address the negative impacts of car travel, while urban planners tend to emphasise land use planning such as compact development. In this paper, we argue that the two approaches are synergistic. We use precinct-level data from two California referenda to show th...
Associations of walkability, regional and transit accessibility around home and workplace with active and sedentary trav...
Agriculture against the wall: barriers and opportunities for agroecological transitions in California’s industrial agric...
