G Newman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 22983 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Newman |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Newman |
| FIRMA | NEWMAN G |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4277-5931 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A pilot mobile application enhanced by augmented reality to support participatory CoDesign in shared public spaces
Public spaces are critical urban infrastructure, shaping everyday experiences and supporting sociocultural life. Public participation has long underpinned the planning, maintenance, and redesign of these spaces, yet most digital tools remain limited to conceptual experiments based on brief engagement rather than active participatory processes with sustained feedback loops for maintenance and incremental improvement in the long-term. In this resea…
Built environment features
FlowsDT
Communities worldwide increasingly confront flood hazards intensified by climate change, urban expansion, and environmental degradation. Addressing these challenges requires real-time flood analysis, precise flood forecasting, and robust risk communications with stakeholders to implement efficient mitigation strategies. Recent advances in hydrodynamic modeling and digital twins afford new opportunities for high-resolution flood simulation and vis…
Exploring the relationship between daytime and nighttime mobility and park visitation
Urban green space disparities persist amid rapid urbanization, widening the supply-demand gap between parks and developed area. Population density is a critical determinant in estimating park visitors, defining suitable park locations, and allocating facilities for park accessibility. Conventionally, population density data were used as a foundational basis for urban green space planning decisions, often derived from sources like the US Census Bu…
Generating conceptual landscape design via text-to-image generative AI model
This study explores the integration of text-to-image generative AI, particularly Stable Diffusion, in conjunction with ControlNet and LoRA models in conceptual landscape design. Traditional methods in landscape design are often time-consuming and limited by the designer’s individual creativity, also often lacking efficiency in the exploration of diverse design solutions. By leveraging AI tools, we demonstrate a workflow that efficiently generates…
Racial and Ethnic Change in Floodplain Buyout Neighborhoods
This paper examines how floodplain buyouts funded through FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) have altered the racial and ethnic composition in Harris County, Texas, from 1990 to 2015. A quasi-experimental research design permits the attribution of observed changes to the buyout program, and interviews with households provide context to our findings. We find that buyouts have triggered white flight, shifting neighborhoods from predomina…
Segregation and Housing Market Dynamics in a Shrinking City
This study investigates the relationship between racial segregation and housing market outcomes in depopulating cities, focusing on Cleveland, OH (1986–2021). Findings reveal that moderately integrated neighborhoods with high Black isolation maintained stable values, while highly segregated areas experienced sharp declines, intensifying post-2008 in low- and medium-income areas. High-income segregated neighborhoods showed resilience, highlighting…
Artificial Intelligence in urban design
Placemaking mediating dilemmas by addressing the gaps in post-disaster recovery process
Disasters create spatial, temporal and social gaps as people are displaced into temporary or interim situations. During this time affected people often experience the dilemma of prolonged uncertainty about the future, as well as the loss of connections with other persons that had existed and been built through shared time and space. This research hypothesizes that the process of placemaking which involves strengthening social capital of local res…
Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements
Disaster recovery depends heavily on the support of social networks and the resources they can generate. Yet such support is difficult to measure and assess. This paper reviews existing quantitative approaches to measure social capital within a disaster context. The article addresses (1) how is social capital conceptualized in the disaster literature? and (2) what social capital measures have been used based on existing conceptual frameworks (e.g…
Developing the health effect assessment of landscape (Heal) Tool
Neighborhood greenspace benefits health, yet few tools are available for estimating the health consequences of community greenspace design alternatives, especially prior to the implementation of a landscape design plan. Herein we present a machine learning based tool for predicting the prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on landscape design maps at the community scale. We achieve this based on data collected in five major metropolises i…
The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research
Urban versus rural disparities in amenity proximity and housing price
Due to the growing importance of accessibility to urban amenities on quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction in South Korea, various efforts have been made to improve accessibility to urban amenities by establishing a minimum standard, an approach called Living Social Overhead Capital (Living SOC); for example, one such standards states that an elementary school should be reachable within a 15-min walk. However, these endeavors have not yet…
How Plans Prepare for Future Uncertainty
This study integrates Land Change Modeling with the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard TM methodology to assess coastal communities' preparedness for uncertain future urban growth and flood hazards. Findings indicate that, under static climate conditions, the network of plans in Tampa is well prepared across all urban growth scenarios, but less so in the face of a changing climate. Specifically, scenario outputs that consider climate chang…
The spatial relationship between long-term vacant housing and non-communicable diseases in U.S. shrinking and growing metropolitan areas
Neighborhood abandonment and quality of life
Using neighborhood characteristics to predict vacancy types
Vacant and abandoned land can be public eyesores that can potentially result in neighborhood distress in the long term. In some cases, the contextual conditions of a neighborhood have been shown to have more of a negative effect on communities than the vacant property itself. Maximum opportunities to actually reuse vacant and abandoned land is known to primarily exist in cases where the surrounding area has locational benefits or when local econo…
Covid-19 and campus users
Quality of Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Vulnerable Communities
A properly functioning local stormwater drainage system is essential for mitigating flood risks. This study evaluates the quality of roadside drainage channels in three underserved communities in Texas: the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston (Harris County), a neighborhood in the City of Rockport (Aransas County), and the Hoehn colonia (Hidalgo County). These communities have a history of flooding, are highly socially vulnerable, and rely on roads…
Contemplating Reparations of Indigenous Peoples
Design for Storm Surge Flooding Adaptation
Lack of consensus and funding led to a focus on building retrofits after storm surge flooding and collective inaction for undertaking cross-jurisdictional adaptation pathways planning. Using Seabrook, TX, United States, as a test case, this paper demonstrates the feasibility of using design games (participatory community visioning and design processes) to develop consensus-based, performance-driven, form-based codes from an adaptive landscape fra…
Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities
Plan Integration for Ecological Resilience
A community’s resilience is strongly influenced by the growth management guidance provided by its network of plans. Wetland loss has been shown to amplify flood damage. This study explores the relationship between plan integration and wetland alteration, comparing the findings from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and League City, Texas. Combining spatial analytics, a Plan Integration for Resilience ScorecardTM evaluation, and correlational statistics, …
Twenty years of research on shrinking cities
Most scholarly attention to vanishing cities is fairly recent so, to guide future research, a comprehensive evaluation of prior findings is required. This study is a network analysis of 333 publications authored in English, published over the last two decades. The findings are as follows: (1) shrinking city research has increased significantly since 2016; (2) the key themes are planning, decline, depopulation, policy, regeneration, vacant land, g…
Tree canopy, pediatric asthma, and social vulnerability
Urban regeneration
Vacant urban areas
Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses
Urban shrapnel
Urbanisation is characterised by cycles of activation and obsolescence leaving in their wake an abundance of non-productive space (NPS). Expanding cities report more vacant land than do fixed cities, which report higher structural abandonment. If left untreated, existing NPS can spread to surrounding properties. Using Fort Worth, TX, USA as a case site, this research explores the spatial distribution of NPS using Geographical Information Systems …
Elasticity and urban vacancy
Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities
Natural Experiments in Planning Research
The relationship between vacant properties and neighborhood gentrification
Coping with post-hurricane mental distress
Urban versus rural disparities in amenity proximity and housing price
Due to the growing importance of accessibility to urban amenities on quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction in South Korea, various efforts have been made to improve accessibility to urban amenities by establishing a minimum standard, an approach called Living Social Overhead Capital (Living SOC); for example, one such standards states that an elementary school should be reachable within a 15-min walk. However, these endeavors have not yet…
Evaluating drivers of housing vacancy
How Plans Prepare for Future Uncertainty
This study integrates Land Change Modeling with the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard TM methodology to assess coastal communities' preparedness for uncertain future urban growth and flood hazards. Findings indicate that, under static climate conditions, the network of plans in Tampa is well prepared across all urban growth scenarios, but less so in the face of a changing climate. Specifically, scenario outputs that consider climate chang…
Plan Integration for Ecological Resilience
A community’s resilience is strongly influenced by the growth management guidance provided by its network of plans. Wetland loss has been shown to amplify flood damage. This study explores the relationship between plan integration and wetland alteration, comparing the findings from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and League City, Texas. Combining spatial analytics, a Plan Integration for Resilience ScorecardTM evaluation, and correlational statistics, …
Toward a Unifying Definition and Approach for Quantifying Urban Policy Performance
Engaged Research
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities
Excessive amounts of neighbourhood vacant land and abandoned structures can significantly lower community and outsider perceptions, and ultimately impact the mental health conditions of inhabitants. While depopulation, economic conditions and land use dynamics can all play a role in the amount of neighbourhood-scaled vacancies and structural abandonment, natural disaster events such as flooding can also exacerbate the ratio of vacant to non-vacan…
Introduction
GRAEME NEWMAN [*] GREGORY J. HOWARD [**] Introduction ALMOST EVERY PAPER one reads on topic of criminology repeats quote from Durkheim to effect that comparative sociology is ... sociology itself (Durkheim 1938:39). True enough, if Durkheim meant that we follow in sociology, given that kernel of scientific method lies in comparison of experimentally allocated groups. Of course, in social science, especially sociological version, chances of conduc…
Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and Climate Change
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Land use planning is key to mitigating natural hazards and the effects of climate change. Communities adopt multiple plans that directly and indirectly address hazard mitigation; the integration of local plans can significantly affect future community vulnerability to hazards. We develop a resilience scorecard to assess the degree to which the network of local plans targets areas most prone to hazards and…
Elasticity and urban vacancy
Urban shrapnel
Urbanisation is characterised by cycles of activation and obsolescence leaving in their wake an abundance of non-productive space (NPS). Expanding cities report more vacant land than do fixed cities, which report higher structural abandonment. If left untreated, existing NPS can spread to surrounding properties. Using Fort Worth, TX, USA as a case site, this research explores the spatial distribution of NPS using Geographical Information Systems …
The influence of urban landscape spatial patterns on single-family housing prices
Many empirical studies assessing the economic benefits of urban green space have continually documented that green space tends to increase both value and sale price of nearby residential properties. Previous studies, however, have not fully captured the quality of neighborhood level landscape spatial patterns on housing prices. To fill this literature gap, this study examined the association between landscape spatial patterns of urban green space…
Vacant urban areas
Evaluating drivers of housing vacancy
Neighborhood decline and mixed land uses
Advancing scenario planning through integrating urban growth prediction with future flood risk models
Citizen Science-Informed Community Master Planning
Communities adjacent to concentrated areas of industrial land use (CAILU) are exposed to elevated levels of pollutants during flood disasters. Many CAILU are also characterized by insufficient infrastructure, poor environmental quality, and socially vulnerable populations. Manchester, TX is a marginalized CAILU neighborhood proximate to several petrochemical industrial sites that is prone to frequent flooding. Pollutants from stormwater runoff di…
Publishing in the Time of Covid-19
Urban regeneration
Integrating a resilience scorecard and landscape performance tools into a Geodesign process
Uncertainty about the impacts of sea level rise make the ability to forecast future spatial conditions a necessary planning/design tool. Geodesign integrates multiple fields of science with change/impact models and planning/design strategies. Proactive planning analyses such as newly developed scorecards allow for plan evaluation; design strategies can now be quantitatively assessed using landscape performance calculators. Neither have been explo…
Design for the Depopulating Landscape
Over the last 50 years, 370 large cities worldwide have severely depopulated, or shrunk, by at least 10%. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is the third fastest U.S. shrinking city. Primarily a victim of deindustrialization, Johnstown faces severe decline issues related to depopulation, including social disorder and lowered quality of life. This project develops a framework for urban design for shrinking cities, integrating permanent functions into high d…
Green infrastructure in comprehensive plans in coastal Texas
By guiding where, how, and when development occurs, comprehensive plans are an important vehicle to implement green infrastructure. To examine how green infrastructure is incorporated into local comprehensive plans, we evaluate 38 city and county plans in coastal Texas. Like many coastal regions, coastal Texas is experiencing rapid population growth, environmental degradation, and growing natural hazard threats. We found that local comprehensive …
Green infrastructure for coastal flood protection
Identifying and comparing vacant housing determinants across South Korean cities
Urban decline and residential preference
Vacant land is a ubiquitous urban phenomenon. The existence of vacant land in a neighborhood can either lower or heighten nearby housing values, depending on its relative development potential. However, this condition has rarely been examined longitudinally, nor has it been examined thoroughly across different socioeconomic conditions. This research examines the impact of vacant lots on housing premiums using 2006–2015 single-family home sale tra…
Citizens as Sensors for Small Communities
Planning the Allocation and Reallocation of Urban Space
The Necessary Role of Planning Practice and Scholarship in the Age of Uncertainty
The relationship between vacant properties and neighborhood gentrification
Coping with post-hurricane mental distress
Tree canopy, pediatric asthma, and social vulnerability
Modeling the relationships between historical redlining, urban heat, and heat-related emergency department visits
Place-based structural inequalities can have critical implications for the health of vulnerable populations. Historical urban policies, such as redlining, have contributed to current inequalities in exposure to intra-urban heat. However, it is unknown whether these spatial inequalities are associated with disparities in heat-related health outcomes. The aim of this study is to determine the relationships between historical redlining, intra-urban …
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