Our Publications

Published Research

The Mansueto Institute faculty, affiliated faculty, and fellows publish research in leading academic journals that is helping to define urban scholarship. This includes new methods for statistical analysis of cities, patterns in urban growth and development, and findings about socioeconomics, built environment, sustainability, and more.

2024

Liang Cai Exposure of Neighborhood Racial and Socio-Economic Composition in Activity Space: A New Approach Adjusting for Residential Conditions Social Forces

Arianna Salazar-Miranda The tradeoff between sustainability and social segregation in 15-minute cities Nature Cities

Arianna Salazar-Miranda The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data Nature Cities

Luc Anselin An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with GeoDa 

Andrew Stier, Luís Bettencourt, Marc Berman Implicit racial biases are lower in more populous more diverse and less segregated US cities Nature Communications

Emily Talen, Designing a Neighborhood Research Handbook on Urban Design

Brian C. Wilson, “Approaching Past, Present, and Future Urbanisms in Goa, India,”  The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean

 

 

2023

Adrian S.Z. Chase. Transformation, Growth, and Governance at Caracol, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology. 2023. https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/9553?&ln=en.

Sabina Shaikh and Emily Talen. Our Urban Future: An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities MIT Press, https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262546843

Emily Talen. The Scale of Urbanism Urban Science. https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/7/3/87

Sabina Shaikh, Alan Kolata, and Michael W. Binford. Home and Away: Drivers and Perceptions of Migration Among Urban Migrants and Their Rural Families in the Lower Mekong River Basin in Cambodia. Migration and Development. September 29, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/21632324231194

Christopher R. Esposito. The geography of breakthrough invention in the United States over the 20th century. Research Policy. September 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104810.

Adrian S.Z. Chase. Reconstructing and Testing Neighborhoods at the Maya City of Caracol, Belize. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101514.

Diane Z. Chase, José Lobo, Gary M. Feinman, David M. Carballo, Arlen F. Chase, Adrian S.Z. Chase, Scott R. Hutson, Alanna Ossa, Marcello Canuto, Travis W. Stanton, L.J. Gorenflo, Christopher A. Pool, Barbara Arroyo, Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, and Deborah L. Nichols. Mesoamerican urbanism revisited: Environmental change, adaptation, resilience, persistence, and collapse. PNAS. June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211558120.

Jordan T. Kemp, Luís M.A. Bettencourt. Learning Increases Growth and Reduces Inequality in Shared Noisy Environments. PNAS Nexus. March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad093.

Suraj K. Sheth, Luís M. A. Bettencourt. Measuring Health and Human Development in Cities and Neighborhoods in the United States. npj Urban Sustainability. February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00088-y.

Deborah Strumsky, Luis Bettencourt, and José Lobo. Agglomeration Effects as Spatially Embedded Social Interactions: Identifying Urban Scaling Beyond Metropolitan Areas. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221148198

2022

Dan O’Brien and Alex Ciomek. Whence the Action? The Persistence and Aggravation of Violent Crime at Addresses, Streets, and Neighborhoods. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. July 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224278221112839.

Christopher R Esposito. Cycles of Regional Innovative Growth. Journal of Economic Geography. 2022;, lbac020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbac020.

José Lobo, Todd Whitelaw, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Polly Wiessner, Michael E Smith, and Scott Ortman. Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality. Current Anthropology. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1086/719234.

Romeo-Aznar, V., Picinini Freitas, L., Gonçalves Cruz, O., King, A., Pascual, M. Fine-scale heterogeneity in population density predicts wave dynamics in dengue epidemics. Nature Communications 13, 996 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28231-w.

Taajamaa V, Joensuu M, Karanian B, Bettencourt L. Seven Steps to Strategic SDG Sensemaking for Cities. Administrative Sciences. 2022; 12(1):33. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12010033.

2021

Lobo, J., Alberti, M., Allen-Dumas, M. et al. A Convergence Research Perspective on Graduate Education for Sustainable Urban Systems Science. NPJ Urban Sustainability 1, 39 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00044-8.

Bettencourt LMA. New Empirically Driven Approaches to Inclusive Human Development in Cities. In: Kumar, A., & Meshram, D.S. (Eds.). (2021). Sustainable Development Goals and Indian Cities: Inclusion, Diversity and Citizen Rights (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248781

Bettencourt LMA. Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems. (2021) MIT Press.

Jared N Schachner, Racial Stratification and School Segregation in the Suburbs: Evidence from Los Angeles County, Social Forces, 2021;, soab128, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab128

Stier, A.J., Berman, M.G. & Bettencourt, L.M.A. Early Pandemic COVID-19 Case Growth Rates Increase with City Size. npj Urban Sustain 1, 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00030-0

Stier, A., Berman, M., Bettencourt,  L.et al. Evidence and theory for lower rates of depression in larger US urban areas. PNAS (2021). https://www.pnas.org/content/118/31/e2022472118

Tian, A., Zünd, D., Bettencourt, L.. Estimating Rooftop Solar Potential in Urban Environments: A Generalized Approach and Assessment of the Galápagos Islands. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 3, 49 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.632109

Schertz, K.E., Saxon, J., Cardenas-Iniguez, C. et al. Neighborhood Street Activity and Greenspace Usage Uniquely Contribute to Predicting Crimenpj Urban Sustain 1, 19 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-020-00005-7

Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Shaonlee Patranabis, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Anup Malani. Infrastructure, Enforcement, and COVID-19 in Mumbai Slums: A First Look. Journal of Regional Science. 10 July 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12552.

Schachner, Jared N. 2021. Parental Depression and Contextual Selection: The Case of School Choice. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62(2): 202-221. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221465211001058

Sahasranaman A, Bettencourt LM. Economic Geography and the Scaling of Urban and Regional Income in India. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 2021;48(3):540-554. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319879463

Schachner, Jared N. 2021. Neighborhood Economic Change in an Era of Metropolitan Divergence. Urban Affairs Review OnlineFirst. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874211016940

Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M.A. Bettencourt, Life Between the City and the Village: Scaling Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums, World Development, Volume 142, 2021, 105435, ISSN 0305-750X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105435.

Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., McPhearson, T. et al. Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene. npj Urban Sustain 1, 6 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00018-w

Brandtner C, Bettencourt LMA, Berman MG, Stier AJ (2021) Creatures of the State? Metropolitan Counties Compensated for State Inaction in Initial U.S. Response to COVID-19 Pandemic. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0246249. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246249

2020

Marwell, N.P., Marantz, E.A., & Baldassarri D. (2020). The Microrelations of Urban Governance: Dynamics of Patronage and Partnership. American Journal of Sociology 125(6), 1559-1601. https://doi.org/10.1086/709250

Press, D.J., Aschebrook-Kilfoy, B., Lauderdale, D…Bettencourt LMA et al. ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS): Increased Response Rates Among African American Residents in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 8, 186–198 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00770-2

Tian Amy, Zünd Daniel, Bettencourt Luís M. A. Estimating Rooftop Solar Potential in Urban Environments: A Generalized Approach and Assessment of the Galápagos Islands. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 22 June 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.632109.

Bettencourt, L.M.A., Zünd, D. Demography and the Emergence of Universal patterns in Urban Systems. Nat Commun 11, 4584 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18205-1

Bettencourt, Luís M. A. (2020) Urban Growth and the Emergent Statistics of Cities. Science Advances Vol. 6. no. 34, eaat8812. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/34/eaat8812.

Lobo J…Bettencourt LMA. Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises. Report submitted to the NSF on the Present State and Future of Urban Science, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3526940.

Zünd D., Bettencourt L.M.A. (2021) Street View Imaging for Automated Assessments of Urban Infrastructure and Services. In: Shi W., Goodchild M.F., Batty M., Kwan MP., Zhang A. (eds) Urban Informatics. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_4

Soman S, Beukes A, Nederhood C, Marchio N, Bettencourt LMA. Worldwide Detection of Informal Settlements via Topological Analysis of Crowdsourced Digital Maps. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2020; 9(11):685. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9110685

David J. Press, Brandon Pierce, Diane S. Lauderdale, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Donald Hedeker, Nathaniel E. Wright, Richard J. Fantus, Luís Bettencourt, Habibul Ahsan, Scott Eggener. Tobacco and Marijuana Use and Their Association with Serum Prostate-specific Antigen Levels among African American Men in Chicago. Preventive Medicine Reports,Volume 20, 2020, 101174, ISSN 2211-3355, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101174.

Lobo J, Bettencourt LMA, Smith ME. Settlement Scaling theory: Bridging the Study of Ancient and Contemporary Urban Systems. Volume: 57 issue: 4, page(s): 731-747, October 17, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019873796

Rudolf Cesaretti, José Lobo, Luis M. A. Bettencourt & Michael E. Smith (2020) Increasing Returns to Scale in the Towns of Early Tudor England. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 53:3, 147-165, https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2020.1722775.

Bettencourt, Luis and Yang, Vicky Chuqiao and Lobo, Jose and Kempes, Chris and Rybski, Diego and Hamilton, Marcus, The Interpretation of Urban Scaling Analysis in Time (September 25, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 12. This paper has been published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2019.0846 Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3459540 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3459540

Scott G. Ortman, Michael E. Smith, José Lobo, and Luís M. A. Bettencourt. Why Archaeology Is Necessary for a Theory of Urbanization. Journal of Urban Archaeology 2020 1:, 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.120914.

2019

Berry CR, Atuahene B. (2019) “Taxed Out: Illegal Property Tax Assessments and the Epidemic of Tax Foreclosures in Detroit,” University of California Irvine Law Review 9(4): 847-886. (PDF)

Choe K.W., Jenifer J., Rozek C., Berman M., & Beilock S. (2019) Calculated Avoidance: Math Anxiety Predicts Math Avoidance in Effort-Based Decision Making. Science Advances Vo. 5, no. 11, eaay1062. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaay1062

Bettencourt, Luis and Lobo, Jose, Quantitative Methods for the Comparative Analysis of Cities in History (May 27, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 9. This paper has been published in Frontiers in Digital Humanities: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdigh.2019.00017/full. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3427343 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3427343

Zünd, Daniel and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Growth and Urban Development in Prefecture-Level China (December 14, 2018). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 1. This paper has been published in PLoS ONE: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3302756 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3302756

Hanson J., Ortman S., Bettencourt L., & Mazur L. (2019). Urban Form, Infrastructure and Spatial Organisation in the Roman Empire. Antiquity, 93(369), 702-718. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.192.

Bettencourt LMA. Towards a Statistical Mechanics of Cities (Vers Une Mécanique Statistique des Villes). Comptes Rendus Physique. Volume 20, Issue 4, May–June 2019, Pages 308-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2019.05.007.

Bettencourt, LMA. Designing for Complexity: The Challenge to Spatial Design from Sustainable Human Development in Cities (March 26, 2019). Technology|Architecture + Design. 3:1, 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2019.1571793

Sahasranaman, Anand and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Urban Geography and Scaling of Contemporary Indian Cities (September 23, 2018). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 4. This paper has been published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0758 Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3362570 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3362570.

de Haan F.J., Quiroga Ferri D., Walsh S.J., Bettencourt L.M.A. (2019) Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galapagos. In: Kvan T., Karakiewicz J. (eds) Urban Galapagos. Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99534-2_4

Bettencourt, Luís M. A., Critical Paths to Sustainability: The Research Challange from Island Urban Systems. n Kvan, T., Karakiewicz, J. (eds.), Urban Galapagos, Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99534-2_10

Batty, M., Bettencourt, Luís M. A., Kirley, M., Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos. In Kvan, T., Karakiewicz, J. (eds.), Urban Galapagos, Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. https://doi.org/1007/978-3-319-99534-2_3

Bettencourt LMA. (2019) Complex Systems Modeling of Urban Development: Understanding the Determinants of Health and Growth Across Scales. In: Nieuwenhuijsen M., Khreis H. (eds) Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74983-9_10

2018

Brelsford, C., Martin, T., Hand, J., Bettencourt, Luís M. A., Toward Cities Without Slums: Topology and the Spatial Evolution of Neighborhoods (August 29, 2018). Science Advances. Vol. 4, no. 8, eaar4644. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar4644.

Shutters ST, Lobo J, Muneepeerakul R, Strumsky D, Mellander C, Brachert M, Farinha T, Bettencourt LMA. Urban Occupational Structures as Information Networks: The Effect on Network Density of Increasing Number of Occupations. PLOS. Published: May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196915.

Urban Innovations Working Paper Series

Hosted on SSRN, the Mansueto Institute’s working paper series is a forum to share knowledge, spur collaboration, and publicize cutting-edge urban science research. This series disseminates early-stage and under peer review research in pursuit of generating the best knowledge and practices around urban development. Papers come from scholars across the University of Chicago and beyond, and touch upon a range of interdisciplinary subjects including housing scholarship, urban architecture and design, neighborhoods and human development, sustainable cities, and data and technological innovation. View the full series and subscribe on SSRN.

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Submitting your paper to the series is an opportunity to make your work visible to our 1,400+ subscribers and others working in this space. Our 80+ papers have had thousands of downloads and abstract views. Papers touch upon a range of interdisciplinary subjects including housing scholarship, urban architecture and design, neighborhoods and human development, sustainable cities, and data and technological innovation. To submit, please email the PDF of your paper with abstract to Elaine Meyer at ermeyer@uchicago.edu.

 

Preprints

2023

University of Chicago – Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and Bettencourt, Luís and Talen, Emily. Beyond the Single-Family Home: Zoning, Equity, and Access (June 8, 2023) Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 37. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4473816.

Stier, Andrew and Sajjadi, Sina and Karimi, Fariba and Bettencourt, Luis and Berman, Marc G. City Population, Majority Group Size, and Residential Segregation Drive Implicit Racial Biases in U.S. Cities (January 27, 2023). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 36. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4342718.

Sheth, Suraj and Bettencourt, Luis, The Community Human Development Index as a Precision Vulnerability Metric and Risk Indicator (January 18, 2023). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 35. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4328885.

Sheth, Suraj and Bettencourt, Luis, Community Human Development in US Counties: Analysis of the Divergence in Local Life Expectancies Over Time (January 18, 2023). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 34. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4328853.

2022

Stier, Andrew and Sajjadi, Sina and Bettencourt, Luis and Karimi, Fariba and Berman, Marc G, Effects of Racial Segregation on Economic Productivity in U.S. Cities (December 6, 2022). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 33. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4295426.

Gonzalez, Ana and Brandtner Christof, Green against the odds: Overcoming institutional barriers to sustainability in cities with pragmatic and progressive resource needs (November 18, 2022). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 32. Available at SSRN:  http://ssrn.com/abstract=4284821.

Brandtner, Christof and Ashur, Parham and Srinivasa Desikan, Bhargav. Dynamic persistence of institutions: Modeling the endurance of public housing after Red Vienna, 1870–2009 (November 15, 2022). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 31. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4277817.

Kemp, Jordan and Bettencourt, Luis, The Bayesian Origins of Growth Rates in Stochastic Environments (September 22, 2022). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 30. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4227165.

Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Why the Internet Must Become More Like a City (July 3, 2022). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 29, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4166118.

2021

Sheth, Suraj and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Human Development in US Cities and Neighborhoods (November 11, 2021). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 28, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3961750

Tandel, Vaidehi and Gandhi, Sahil and Patranabis, Shaonlee and Bettencourt, Luis and Malani, Anup, Infrastructure, enforcement and COVID-19 in Mumbai slums: A first look (April 30, 2021). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 27, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3837478

Koschinsky, Julia and Marwell, Nicole and Mansour, Raed, Does Health Service Funding Go Where the Need Is? A Prototype Spatial Access Analysis for New Urban Contracts Data (April 22, 2021). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 26, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3832293

Koschinsky, Julia and Marwell, Nicole and Mansour, Raed, A Blueprint for Diagnosing the Readiness of Human Service Contracts Data for Spatial Access Analysis (April 22, 2021). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 25, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3832279

2020

Bettencourt, Luis and Soman, Satej, Systems Architecture for Real Time Epidemiological Prediction and Control (December 14, 2020). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3748704

Soman, Satej and Beukes, Anni and Nederhood, Cooper and Marchio, Nicholas and Bettencourt, Luis, Worldwide Detection of Informal Settlements via Topological Analysis of Crowdsourced Digital Maps (September 27, 2020). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3701930 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3701930

Brandtner, Christof and Bettencourt, Luis and Stier, Andrew and Berman, Marc G., Creatures of the State? Metropolitan Counties Compensated for State Inaction in Initial U.S. Response to Covid-19 Pandemic (August 10, 2020). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3670927
 
Anup Malani, Satej Soman, Sam Asher, Paul Novosad, Clement Imbert, Vaidehi Tandel, Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Arnab Sarker, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Jonathan Gruber, Stuti Sachdeva, David Kaiser, and Luis M.A. Bettencourt, Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India: Local, Gradual, and Trigger-based Exit Paths from Lockdown (July 2020). NBER Working Paper No. 27532. JEL No. I1. Available at NBER: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27532
 
Brandtner, Christof, City Action: Civic Capacity and the Greening of the American City (April 21, 2020). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 20. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3581796
 
Bettencourt, Luis, The Quantitative Relation between National Levels of Urbanization and Economic Growth (February 27, 2020). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 18. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3547064 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3547064
 
Lobo, Jose and Alberti, Marina and Allen-Dumas, Melissa and Arcaute, Elsa and Barthelemy, Marc and Bojorquez Tapia, Luis A. and Brail, Shauna and Bettencourt, Luis and Beukes, Anni and Chen, Wei‐Qiang and Florida, Richard and Gonzalez, Marta and Grimm, Nancy and Hamilton, Marcus and Kempes, Chris and Kontokosta, Constantine E. and Mellander, Charlotta and Neal, Zachary P. and Ortman, Scott and Pfeiffer, Deirdre and Price, Michael and Revi, Aromar and Rozenblat, Céline and Rybski, Diego and Siemiatycki, Matthew and Shutters, Shade T. and Smith, Michael E. and Stokes, Eleanor C. and Strumsky, Deborah and West, Geoffrey and White, Devin and Wu, Jingle and Yang, Vicky Chuqiao and York, Abigail and Youn, Hyejin, Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises (January 28, 2020). Report submitted to the NSF on the Present State and Future of Urban Science, 2020. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3526940 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3526940

2019

Saxon, James, Empirical Measures of Park Use in American Cities, and the Demographic Biases of Spatial Models (December 12, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 17. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3502949

Bettencourt, Luis and Zünd, Daniel, Demography, Symmetry and the Emergence of Universal Patterns in Urban Systems (October 15, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 15. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3470821 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3470821

Lobo, Jose and Alberti, Marina and Allen-Dumas, Melissa and Bettencourt, Luis and Beukes, Anni and Neal, Zachary P. and Pfeiffer, Deirdre and Shutters, Shade T. and Smith, Michael E. and Stokes, Eleanor C. and Strumsky, Deborah and Wu, Jingle, Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science (October 1, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 14. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3466322 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3466322

Saxon, James, The Local Structures of Human Mobility in Chicago (October 9, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 13. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3467101

Bettencourt, Luis and Sahasranaman, Anand, Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums (September 2, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 11. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3448171 This paper has been published in World Development: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105435

Romero Lankao, Patricia and Wilson, Alana and Sperling, Joshua and Miller, Clark and Zimny-Schmitt, Daniel and Bettencourt, Luis and Wood, Eric and Young, Stanley and Muratori, Matteo and Arent, Doug and O’Malley, Mark and Sovacool, Benjamin K. and Brown, Marilyn A. and Southworth, Frank and Bazilian, Morgan and Gearhart, Chris and Beukes, Anni and Zünd, Daniel, Urban Electrification: Knowledge Pathway Toward an Integrated Research and Development Agenda (August 20, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 10. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3440283 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3440283

Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Complex Networks and Fundamental Urban Processes (June 11, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 8. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3418612 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3418612

Lobo, Jose and Whitelaw, Todd and Bettencourt, Luis and Wiessner, Polly and Smith, Michael E. and Ortman, Scott, Scaling of Hunter Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality (May 26, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 7. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3399729

Lobo, Jose and Bettencourt, Luis and Smith, Michael E. and Ortman, Scott, Settlement Scaling Theory: Bridging the Study of Ancient and Contemporary Urban Systems (May 26, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 6. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3427336 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3427336

Bettencourt, Luis, Towards a Statistical Mechanics of Cities (April 9, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 5. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3427349 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3427349

Sahasranaman, Anand and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Economic Geography and the Scaling of Urban and Regional Income in India (March 27, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 3. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3362578 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3362578

Zünd, Daniel and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Streetview Imaging for Automated Assessments of Urban Infrastructure and Services (March 25, 2019). Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Research Paper No. 2. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3362580 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3362580

Pre-Prints & White Papers

Working papers, pre-published articles, white papers, and other pre-published work from scholars at the Mansueto Institute.

2024

Tucker, Riley. O’Brien Daniel T., and Hangen, Forrest. Can a Twitter-Based Measure of Racial Heterogeneity Explain Neighborhood Crime Differences? Proposing an Ambient Population Measure of Social Disorganization (February 27, 2024). CRIMRXIV. Available: https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/kxlyvjce/release/2.

2023

Kimberly Lewis Meidenbauer Kathryn Schertz Elizabeth Janey Andrew Stier Anya Leslie Samtani Kathryn Gehrke Riley Tucker Mahedi Hasan Marc Berman. Evidence for environmental influences on impulsivity and aggression. PsyArXriv preprints. (October 31, 2023). 10.31234/osf.io/epkru

Marc Berman, Riley Tucker. Evidence for Environmental Influences on Impulsivity and Aggression (October 31, 2023) PsyArXiv Pre-prints. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/epkru/

Christopher R. Berry and Nicholas Marchio. Simulating property tax effects from declines in downtown commercial real estate valuations in Chicago. (October 5, 2023). https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/1/1010/files/2023/10/Loop-CRE-Analysis_October-2023.pdf

Arianna Salazar-Miranda. Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement. Institute of Labor Economics. (October 2023) https://docs.iza.org/dp16501.pdf.

Riley Tucker and Daniel T. O’Brien. Do Commercial Place Managers Explain Crime Across Places? Yes and NO(PE) (April 25, 2023). https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/yfdcyxer.

2021

Kemp, Jordan T. and Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Statistical Dynamics of Wealth Inequality in Stochastic Models of Growth (December 9, 2021). Cornell University arXiv, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.05217.

Andrew J. Stier, Marc G. Berman, Luis M. A. Bettencourt. COVID-19 attack rate increases with city size (March 23 2020). Cornell University arXiv, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.10376.

Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt. Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums (September 10 2019). Cornell University arXiv, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1909.05728.