Geoff Boeing

Geoff Boeing is an Associate Professor in USC’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, the Director of USC’s Urban Data Lab, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

His research and teaching focus on geospatial data science, urban networks, and information landscapes. His work has been shortlisted by the Information Is Beautiful Awards and the NetSci Visualization Awards, and covered by numerous media outlets including The Economist, The Guardian, The Atlantic,...

Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., Information Management, Arizona State University
B.S., Computer Information Systems, Arizona State University

Boeing, G. 2021. “Street Network Models and Indicators for Every Urban Area in the World.” Geographical Analysis, published online before print.

Boeing, G. 2021. “Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 87 (1), 123-137.

Boeing, G., M. Besbris, A. Schachter, and J. Kuk. 2021. “Housing Search in the Age of Big Data: Smarter Cities or the Same Old Blind Spots?” Housing Policy Debate, 31 (1), 112-126.

Boeing, G. 2021. “Spatial Information and the Legibility of Urban...