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5568
National Ranking
2638

Overview

Peter Gordon is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Medicine, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Transportation, Building and Construction, and Automotive Engineering.

Their main fields of study include Medicine, with notable subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, and Transportation. The work primarily covers topics related to Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Regional Development and Policy, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, as well as HIV/AIDS oral health manifestations.

Peter Gordon has published articles in a variety of scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Regional Science Policy & Practice
  • ROSA P
  • Economic Development Quarterly
  • ACI Open

Their recent papers demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to regional development, transportation, and health-related topics. Notable publications are:

  • Agglomeration and clusters near and far for regional development: A critical assessment, 2020, Regional Science Policy & Practice
  • Travel Trends in Non-CBD Activity Centers, 2021, ROSA P
  • Book Review: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, 2022, Economic Development Quarterly
  • Leveraging Clinical Decision Support in Dental Settings to Bridge HIV Testing Gaps and Contribute to Ending the Epidemic, 2025, ACI Open

Peter Gordon has collaborated with several co-authors across different domains. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Karima Kourtit
  • Harry Richardson
  • Geneviève Giuliano
  • Sharon C. Perelman
  • Tunaidi Ansari

Best Publications

  • Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson

  • THE COMMUTING PARADOX: EVIDENCE FROM THE TOP TWENTY

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson;Myung-Jin Jun

  • Beyond Polycentricity: The Dispersed Metropolis, Los Angeles, 1970-1990

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson

  • What Happened to the CBD-Distance Gradient?: Land Values in a Policentric City

    E Heikkila;P Gordon;J I Kim;R B Peiser

  • The distribution of population and employment in a polycentric city: the case of Los Angeles.

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson;H. L. Wong

  • The Influence of Metropolitan Spatial Structure on Commuting Time

    Peter Gordon;Ajay Kumar;Harry W. Richardson

  • GASOLINE CONSUMPTION AND CITIES: A REPLY

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson

  • Gender Differences in Metropolitan Travel Behaviour

    Peter Gordon;Ajay Kumar;Harry W. Richardson

  • Integrating Transportation Network and Regional Economic Models to Estimate the Costs of a Large Urban Earthquake

    Sungbin Cho;Peter Gordon;James E. Moore;Harry W. Richardson

  • Congestion, Changing Metropolitan Structure, and City Size in the United States

    Peter Gordon;Ajay Kumar;Harry W. Richardson

  • The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina

    Peter Boettke;Emily Chamlee-Wright;Peter Gordon;Sanford Ikeda

  • The economic impacts of a terrorist attack on the U.S. commercial aviation system.

    Peter Gordon;James E. Moore;Ji Young Park;Harry W. Richardson

  • The Costs of Urban Sprawl: Some New Evidence:

    P Gordon;H L Wong

  • BEYOND THE JOURNEY TO WORK

    Peter Gordon;Ajay Kumar;Harry W. Richardson

  • The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Some New Evidence:

    Peter Gordon;Ajay Kumar;Harry W. Richardson

  • Estimating Freight Flows for Metropolitan Area Highway Networks Using Secondary Data Sources

    Genevieve Giuliano;Peter Gordon;Qisheng Pan;JiYoung Park

  • Accessibility and Residential Land Values: Some Tests with New Measures

    Genevieve Giuliano;Peter Gordon;Qisheng Pan;JiYoung Park

  • Residential Property Values, the CBD, and Multiple Nodes: Further Analysis:

    Hw Richardson;P Gordon;Myung-Jin Jun;E Heikkila

  • The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society

    David T. Beito;Peter Gordon;Alexander Tabarrok;Paul Johnson

  • Deconcentration without a ‘Clean Break’

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  • Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Employment Trends in the US: Recent Evidence and Implications

    Peter Gordon;Harry W. Richardson;Gang Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Genevieve Giuliano
Genevieve Giuliano University of Southern California
Reid Ewing
Reid Ewing University of Utah

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