Geoff Boeing is an Associate Professor in USC's Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis.
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 Analysis.
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-access from EP-B.
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 Housing Policy. You can download it from IJHP.
Hot off the presses: our new article “Research Opportunities to Advance Cardiovascular Health through a Planetary Health Lens” has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. This paper arose from our NHLBI workshop on planetary health, and is available open-access from AJPC.
My article “Home Sharing as Affordable Housing for All? Revealing the Exclusionary Language of Shared Rental Listings through AI,” co-authored with Julia Harten and Madison Lore, has just been published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. You can download it open-access from EP-A.
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 thank you Marc Barthelemy and Diego Rybski for coming out to Vienna to visit me at CSH. I also got to catch up with Gunther Maier and Krzysztof Janowicz and take a…
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 doing. It was one of the first conferences I’d ever attended, and really I just enjoyed wandering around spotting geographers I admired.
My article “Travel Time Prediction from Sparse Open Data,” co-authored by my doctoral student Wendy Zhou, has just been published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. You can download it from IJGIS or via this open-access pre-print.
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 Sustainable Cities (GOHSC).
AAG session call for papers: “Urban spatial analytics: Toward problem-driven methods instead of methods-driven problems.”