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GIST student Samuel Krueger had enough of the claims that Los Angeles was the sprawl capital of the world and lacked an urban core.  So he did something about it.  Using readily available data, he created maps that compare the Los Angeles metropolitan region to other US urban regions. He showed that, at 5,337 residents per…

The international journal Climatic Change recently published a paper by GIST instructor Dr. Darren Ruddell that investigates complex landscapes of the perception of temperature by the public. The study by Ruddell et al. examines temperature variability within metropolitan Phoenix by comparing public perceptions with scientifically derived measurements.  The research, implemented as part of Ruddell’s Ph.D. at Arizona State University, showed that…