Research: Bicycle Sharing Systems and Sociospatial Equity
From 2017 to 2019, I worked on a National Science Foundation Scholars Award project (award #1734665) examining bicycle sharing systems and sociospatial inequality in Austin, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The overall goals of the project were to:
Read more about the project in our summary report below.
- Assess how data about existing social, economic, and spatial factors shape the technical process of bikeshare system design, particularly station location.
- Investigate the role of partnerships between governments and bikeshare providers in this shaping process, and its effect on the capacity to accommodate equity concerns.
- Examine the planning, use, and evaluation of stations at the system edge, and the responses of other actors, including employers, institutions, community organizations, and the real estate sector, to these stations.
Read more about the project in our summary report below.
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Teaching: The Classroom Beyond the Classroom
Over the 2016-17 academic year, I participated in the Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program at UC Berkeley, where I worked on developing teaching methods to encourage student engagement by fostering a geographical sensibility. My goal in this project was to find a suitable platform for students to share geotagged images that are relevant to course materials, and develop pilot assignments that instructors in geography and beyond could use to facilitate student engagement through this activity. The urban field course I taught in Spring 2017 was a good opportunity to test the idea, and I decided on History Pin, a community history platform with a map-based display that supports multimedia uploads and embedded links. I assigned weekly "pins" - akin to miniature blog posts - to my 17 students. By the end of the semester, our group had amassed 139 posts from cities ranging from Berkeley and San Francisco to Fairfield and San Leandro, and depicting everything from Oakland's historic Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center to the "weave of small patterns" evident in the clustering of mid-century tract housing in San Francisco's Sunset District. As one student put it in an anonymous poll evaluating the project: "[It] put me into a constantly analytical perspective when out in the world. In other words, pretty much everything (landmark, mundane object, house, building, etc.) I saw when I was out walking or driving, garnered the internal musing of, 'How could I do a history pin on that?'"
Please visit my project website for more information!
Please visit my project website for more information!