Media
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Here are some of the media publications that have previously covered my work or interviewed me:
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ANSA (Italy). “A Torino la Conferenza Italiana sulle Scienze Sociali Computazionali.” 19 May 2026.
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Jalopnik. “Do One-Way Streets Really Help Traffic Flow (Or Are They Just Annoying)?” 21 February 2026.
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Los Angeles Daily News. “Why the Sixth Street Viaduct Went Dark, and Why It’s Been So Hard to Protect.” 21 February 2026.
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MIT Technology Review. “This Startup Thinks Slime Mold Can Help Us Design Better Cities.” 17 October 2025.
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Bloomberg. “One-Way Streets Are the Wrong Way to Tame Downtown Traffic.” 4 September 2025.
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CNU Public Square. “An Innovative Street Grid Proposal.” 25 February 2025.
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Voice of OC. “Will Construction Jams on the 55 Freeway Payoff for Commuters?” 21 February 2025.
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U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. “USC Study Shows Which Street Network Designs Are More Resilient to Disasters.” 25 November 2024.
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Charlotte Magazine. “Charlotte Traffic: 5 Secrets of the Anti-Grid.” 15 July 2024.
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The Atlantic. “City Planning’s Greatest Innovation Makes a Comeback.” 15 February 2024.
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The Dominion Post. “Are One-Way Streets Hurting Morgantown’s Downtown?” 3 February 2024.
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CNU Public Square. “Traveling Near and Far toward Low-Carbon Cities.” 17 January 2024.
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KPCC/LAist Radio. “LA Traffic Is Worse, But Not Terrible and It Probably Won’t Get Better.” 16 November 2023.
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The San Francisco Chronicle. “We Want to Build a City of Yesterday.” 25 October 2023.
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Streetsblog USA. “White Roads through Black Bedrooms: How Urban Freeways Cemented Spatial Inequalities.” 19 October 2023.
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El Universal (Colombia). “Cartagena y Su Infraestructura Vial.” 18 July 2023.
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Afro LA. “Unequal Air: The Pollution Legacy of Segregation and the Freeway Boom in Los Angeles.” 19 June 2023.
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MReport Magazine. “How Digitalization Changes How People Search for, Finance Housing.” 5 May 2023.
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Spectrum News (TV). “Inside the Issues with Alex Cohen.” 1 May 2023.
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Streets MN. “New Research Highlights the Problems of Urban Freeways.” 27 April 2023.
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Los Angeles Times. “How White and Affluent Drivers Are Polluting the Air Breathed by L.A.’s People of Color.” 9 March 2023.
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Los Angeles Times. “L.A. Residents Who Drive Less Are Exposed to More Air Pollution, Study Finds.” 7 March 2023.
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The Economist. “The Decline of the City Grid.” 20 December 2022.
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Planetizen. “Sustainability Goals Go Unmet in Many Global Cities.” 17 November 2022.
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Streetsblog USA. “How Walkable Cities Foster Public Health.” 22 September 2022.
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Forbes. “We Are Not Doing Enough to Make Our Cities Healthier.” 20 June 2022.
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Planetizen. “Urban Design, Transport, and Health.” 20 May 2022.
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New Zealand Herald. “Aucklanders Waiting Too Long for Buses, Research Finds.” 13 May 2022.
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Stuff (New Zealand). “Auckland Lacking Health-Focused Public Transport Policy – Study.” 13 May 2022.
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The Guardian. “Australian Cities Among Worst Performing on Walkability and Public Transport Access.” 11 May 2022.
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Tasmanian Times. “Australian Cities Out-of-Step on Walkability, Transport.” 11 May 2022.
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Noticias del Mundo. “Ciudades Australianas entre las de Peor Desempeño en Accesibilidad para Peatones y Transporte Público.” 11 May 2022.
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Phys.org. “Building a Global System to Measure Sustainable Cities.” 11 May 2022.
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The Guardian. “Could Flying Electric ‘Air Taxis’ Help Fix Urban Transportation?” 25 October 2021.
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NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands). “Nederlandse Straten Liggen Vaak in Keurige Patronen.” 27 August 2021.
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La Repubblica (Italy). “Il Pianeta Sulla Griglia.” 18 June 2021.
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Chicago Magazine. “Why Chicago’s Grid Is a Model of Perfect Urban Order.” 17 June 2021.
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Jalopnik. “How Your City’s Road Configuration Compares to Others.” 12 June 2021.
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NBC Charlotte. “Yes, According to a Study, Charlotte Has One of the Most Disordered Street Layouts.” 8 June 2021.
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Slate. “In Charge and Online.” 26 February 2021.
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Congress for the New Urbanism. “The Grid Makes a Comeback.” 1 December 2020.
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NextCity. “What a Biden Transportation Program Will Look Like.” 12 November 2020.
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Apogeo (Italy). “5 Risposte Su… Imparare a Pensare in Modo Creativo con il Graphic Design.” 30 October 2020.
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Arch Daily. “Big Data and Urbanism: How to Organize Information for Optimal Application.” 15 April 2020.
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Arch Daily Brasil. “Big Data e Urbanismo: Como Sintetizar Informações Complexas para Aplicação Prática?” 4 April 2020.
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Talking Headways Podcast. “Episode 275: The Communist Leanings of Charlotte (Streets).” 12 March 2020.
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Plataforma Arquitectura (Chile). “Big Data y Urbanismo, ¿Cómo Sintetizar Información Compleja para Su Aplicación Práctica?” 27 February 2020.
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Forbes. “See Your City in a New Way.” 30 December 2019.
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Heise Magazine (Germany). “Die Gute City: Quelloffene Tools für Stadtplaner.” 25 November 2019.
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MIT Technology Review. “What Makes a City Great? A New Way to Look at Urban Data Will Give Us Clues.” 16 October 2019.
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PBS NOVA. “With ‘Problems Out There Waiting for Us,’ Public Health Practitioners Turn to AI for Help.” 11 April 2019.
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Courrier International (France). “Quelles sont les villes à l’urbanisme le plus ‘chaotique?’” 17 September 2018.
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Planetizen. “Chart Your City’s Street Network to Understand Its Logic.” 14 August 2018.
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FiveThirtyEight. “Comparing US City Street Orientations.” 1 August 2018.
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CityLab. “Visualizing the Hidden Logic of Cities.” 26 July 2018.
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New Statesman CityMetric. “Do British Cities Have Grid Systems? We Used Science to Find Out.” 23 July 2018.
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The Big Think. “Street Grids Matter More to Your Commute than You Might Think.” 23 July 2018.
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99 Percent Invisible. “On the Grid: Visualizing Street Network Orientations Across 50 Global Cities.” 20 July 2018.
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Fast Company. “How Crazy Is Your City’s Plan?” 16 July 2018.
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TYS Magazine (Spain). “Comparando las Orientaciones de las Calles de las Ciudades.” 16 July 2018.
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NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands). “Deze Kaartjes Laten Zien Welke Wereldstad Het Kronkeligst Is.” 14 July 2018.
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Meduza (Russia). “Исследователь из США придумал удивительную визуализацию, объясняющую устройство городов.” 14 July 2018.
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The Boston Globe. “Boston’s Streets Do Go in All Sorts of Directions.” 12 July 2018.
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Flowing Data. “Street Network Orientation in Major Cities.” 12 July 2018.
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Slate. “Elegant Graphs Reduce 25 American Cities to Their Design Essence.” 11 July 2018.
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ABC 5 Boston. “This Explains Why Newcomers Have Such a Hard Time Navigating Boston.” 11 July 2018.
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Streets MN. “Minneapolis Street Grid Orientation vs Other US Cities.” 11 July 2018.
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Chicago Magazine. “What Craigslist Can Tell Us About Rents in Chicago.” 24 January 2018.
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Urban Land Magazine. “Barcelona’s Experiment with Superblocks.” Fall 2017, p. 132.
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CityLab. “The Absurd Musings of the ‘City Describer’ Twitter Bot.” 21 September 2017.
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Design Taxi. “Microsoft’s AI Fails at Captioning Picturesque Cityscapes to Hilarious Effect.” 21 September 2017.
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T Journal (Russia). “Разработчик научил бота Microsoft описывать города на фото, но он не всегда справляется.” 20 September 2017.
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The Next Web. “Watch Microsoft’s AI Suck at Captioning Gorgeous City Landscapes on Twitter.” 20 September 2017.
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General Pop Magazine (France). “Quand l’IA de Microsoft Confond des Immeubles et des Cactus.” 20 September 2017.
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The San Francisco Chronicle. “Stunning, Simple Maps Show San Francisco versus Other Global Cities.” 19 June 2017.
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The Daily Mail. “Square Mile Maps Reveal How Different the World’s Cities Really Are.” 9 June 2017.
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Core 77. “Geoff Boeing’s Square-Mile Street Network Visualization Tool Reveals Wildly Different Ideas about Urban Planning.” 27 February 2017.
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Time Out New York. “Compare a Square Mile of NYC’s Street Grid to Cities All over the World.” 16 February 2017.
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Mental Floss. “What a Square Mile of a City’s Grid Looks Like Around the World.” 13 February 2017.
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Flowing Data. “One Square Mile in Different Cities.” 10 February 2017.
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Forbes. “Understanding Our Cities, Thanks to Beautiful Maps.” 7 February 2017.
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Fast Company. “Turn Your Local Streets into a Map That Reveals the Character of Your Neighborhood.” 6 February 2017.
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Planetizen. “Comparing a Square Mile of the World’s Famous Cities.” 27 January 2017.
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Domus Magazine. “Do-It-Yourself City Mapping.” 23 January 2017.
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NextCity. “Compare City Grids with This Street Network Tool.” 23 January 2017.
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CityLab. “A Digital Window into Your City’s Urban Form.” 17 January 2017.
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Discovery News. “Compare City Street Grids One Square Mile at a Time.” 9 January 2017.
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Builder Magazine. “The Housing Market According to Craigslist.” 2 September 2016.
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The Washington Post. “What More than 1 Million Craigslist Rental Listings Tell Us about the Housing Market.” 1 September 2016.
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Fast Company. “11 Million Craigslist Ads Show Which Cities Have the Highest Rents.” 1 September 2016.
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CityLab. “For Quick Housing Data, Hit Craigslist.” 31 August 2016.
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Curbed. “The Typical Craigslist Listing across 58 U.S. Metro Areas.” 29 August 2016.
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NextCity. “What 11 Million Craigslist Posts Show About Affordable Housing.” 26 August 2016.
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The San Francisco Chronicle. “The Prices on Craigslist Rental Listings Are Lowest on This Day.” 26 August 2016.
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American Media Institute Newswire. “Home Rental Costs Up Nationwide.” 16 June 2016.
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National Low Income Housing Coalition. “Study Uses Craigslist to Examine Rental Housing Markets.” 13 June 2016.
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The Daily Californian. “Berkeley Announces Retrofittings for More than Half of City’s Soft-Story Buildings.” 6 October 2015.