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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Emily Talen is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Urban Transport and Accessibility, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, Noise Effects and Management, Housing Market and Economics, Urban Planning and Governance, and Place Attachment and Urban Studies.

Their subfields of study encompass Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Urban Studies.

Emily Talen's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Who can walk? An analysis of public amenity access in America's ten largest cities" (2022), published in Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • "Understanding Urban Retail Vacancy" (2021), published in Urban Affairs Review
  • "Quantifying urban environments: Aesthetic preference through the lens of prospect-refuge theory" (2024), published in Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • "City cents: Tracking the spatial imprint of urban public expenditures" (2020), published in Cities
  • "The socio-economic context of form-based codes" (2021), published in Landscape and Urban Planning

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Kyoung Whan Choe
  • Marc G. Berman
  • Luc Anselin
  • Gaby N. Akcelik
  • Kimberly Lewis Meidenbauer

Emily Talen has published multiple articles in specific venues such as:

  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science (4 publications)
  • Cities (3 publications)
  • Built Environment (3 publications)
  • Journal of Urban Design (3 publications)
  • Landscape and Urban Planning (2 publications)

Among their awards, Emily Talen was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Assessing Spatial Equity: An Evaluation of Measures of Accessibility to Public Playgrounds:

    E Talen;L Anselin

  • Sense of Community and Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment of the Social Doctrine of New Urbanism:

    Emily Talen

  • Theoretical approaches to the promotion of physical activity: Forging a transdisciplinary paradigm

    Abby C King;Dan Stokols;Emily Talen;Glenn S Brassington

  • Visualizing Fairness: Equity Maps for Planners

    Emily Talen

  • Do Plans Get Implemented? A Review of Evaluation in Planning

    Emily Talen

  • New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures

    Emily Talen

  • Bottom-up GIS: A new tool for individual and group expression in participatory planning

    Emily Talen

  • THE SOCIAL EQUITY OF URBAN SERVICE DISTRIBUTION: AN EXPLORATION OF PARK ACCESS IN PUEBLO, COLORADO, AND MACON, GEORGIA

    Emily Talen

  • Neighborhoods as Service Providers: A Methodology for Evaluating Pedestrian Access:

    Emily Talen

  • The Walkable Neighborhood: A Literature Review

    Emily Talen;Julia Koschinsky

  • The Social Goals of New Urbanism

    Emily Talen

  • Hot, congested, crowded and diverse: Emerging research agendas in planning

    Hilda Blanco;Marina Alberti;Ann Forsyth;Kevin J. Krizek

  • After the Plans: Methods to Evaluate the Implementation Success of Plans:

    Emily Talen

  • Design That Enables Diversity: The Complications of a Planning Ideal

    Emily Talen

  • New Urbanism and Smart Growth: A Few Words from the Academy

    Gerrit Knaap;Emily Talen

  • City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    Emily Talen;Andres Duany

  • Beyond Relativism: Reclaiming the Search for Good City Form

    Emily Talen;Cliff Ellis

  • The Problem with Community in Planning

    Emily Talen

  • School, Community, and Spatial Equity: An Empirical Investigation of Access to Elementary Schools in West Virginia

    Emily Talen

  • Legalizing Smart Growth An Empirical Study of Land Use Regulation in Illinois

    Emily Talen;Gerrit Knaap

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago
Daniel A. Rodriguez
Daniel A. Rodriguez University of California, Berkeley
Ann Forsyth
Ann Forsyth Harvard University
Kevin J. Krizek
Kevin J. Krizek University of Colorado Boulder
Soe W. Myint
Soe W. Myint Arizona State University
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Anthony J. Brazel
Anthony J. Brazel Arizona State University
Marc G. Berman
Marc G. Berman University of Chicago
Jack L. Nasar
Jack L. Nasar The Ohio State University
Abby C. King
Abby C. King Stanford University

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