Daniel Tumminelli O''Brien
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 283647 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel Tumminelli O''Brien |
| NOMBRES | Daniel Tumminelli |
| APELLIDO | O''Brien |
| FIRMA | BRIEN D T O |
| AFILIACIONES | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3799-8586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Multihazard exposure and environmental injustice
Research on environmental justice has revealed that various hazards can be created by deleterious planning decisions. Multihazard exposure , or the co-location of two or more hazards in a neighborhood, has been little studied to date. We examine heat and air pollution across the census block groups (CBGs) of 55 US cities to evaluate the distribution and sources of inequities in multihazard exposure. The study combines measures of temperature from…
Enhancing digital twin technology with community-led, science-driven participatory modeling
Recent research, professional, and funding agendas have re-surfaced the importance of knowledge co-production and ethical participation to address urban tensions worldwide: urbanization and rapid climate change, disproportionately impacting socially vulnerable populations. Despite the rise of Digital Twins (DT), buoyed by the growth of computational and data technologies in the past 10 to 15 years, DT have fallen short of their promise to address…
Diminished mental well-being in the Covid-19 pandemic
Self-reported decline in mental well-being during the pandemic was associated with less social connection. • Residents in neighborhoods with a faster return to physical mobility experienced less decline in mental well-being. • Decline in mental well-being was not independently related to income decline. • Decline in mental well-being was not related to neighborhood-level risk of COVID-19 infection. • Persons of color reported less decline in ment…
Do Commercial Place Managers Explain Crime Across Places? Yes and NO(PE)
Pacifying problem places
Crime is highly concentrated at places that lack capable place managers (i.e., landlords and their delegates). In response, numerous cities have instituted problem property interventions that pressure landowners to better manage properties suffering from decay, nuisance, or crime. This approach is distinctive in that it both targets a place and incentivizes those legally responsible to improve its management, yet little is known about the efficac…
Linking landlords to uncover ownership obscurity
Identifying the ownership of rental properties has been a difficult but important step in understanding the current state of property consolidation. We show that the difficulty in linking landlords to their properties has shifted in the past decade from the messy nature of administrative data to ownership obscurity through corporate entities, like Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). To develop a method to overcome both of these challenges, we com…
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties
Strategies and inequities in balancing recreation and Covid exposure when visiting green spaces
Green spaces are beneficial for physical and mental health, especially during and after disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, created a trade-off: parks could be therapeutic but also could expose people to infection. This paradox posed inequities as marginalized populations often have less access to parks and were hit harder by the pandemic. We combined cellphone-generated mobility data with demographic indicators, a neighborhood survey, and…
The Choice to Discriminate
The “choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program signals the mobility offered to voucher holders. However, some landlords use source of income (SOI) discrimination to exclude voucher holders—limiting their locational choices. We propose several factors likely to influence this landlord strategy including, market competitiveness, stereotypes, and racial discrimination. We examine the prevalence of express SOI discrimination and the effecti…
How and Why is Crime More Concentrated in Some Neighborhoods than Others
Who ‘Tweets’ Where and When, and How Does it Help Understand Crime Rates at Places? Measuring the Presence of Tourists and Commuters in Ambient Populations
Urban Heat Islets
Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street segments. Methods. We combined multiple data sets from Boston, Massachusetts, including remotely sensed measures of temperature and associated environmental characteristics (e.g., canopy cover), 911 dispatches for medical emergencies, daily weather conditions, and demographic and p…
Broken (windows) theory
The Urban Commons
Through voicemail, apps, websites, and Twitter, Boston's sophisticated 311 system allows citizens to report potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, and vandalism that affect everyone's quality of life. Drawing on Boston's rich data, Daniel T. O'Brien offers a model of what smart technology can do for cities seeking both growth and sustainability
Looking Through Broken Windows
Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal activity and by discouraging the positive social behavior that prevents crime. Scholars have debated the veracity of BWT, and here we conduct a meta-analysis of 96 studies to examine the effects of disorder on residents’ ( a) general proclivities for a…
Lamp Lighters and Sidewalk Smoothers
Research on collective efficacy in urban neighborhoods has focused predominantly on whether a community can regulate local behavior and spaces and less on how they do so. This study pursues the latter question by examining the social regularities that create collective efficacy, measured as the behavioral composition of a neighborhood (i.e., the extent to which each individual contributes to a social regularity). This perspective is applied to th…
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Using small data to interpret big data
The Other Side of the Broken Window
Much research has focused on physical disorder in urban neighborhoods as evidence that the community does not maintain local norms and spaces. Little attention has been paid to the opposite: indicators of proactive investment in the neighborhood’s upkeep. This manuscript presents a methodology that translates a database of approved building permits into an ecometric of investment by community members, establishing basic content, criteria for reli…
Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data
The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that will require novel methodologies that convert such data into research-relevant measures. The authors illustrate these challenges by developing measures of “broken windows” from Boston’s constituent relationship management (CRM) system (aka 311 …
Broken Windows and Low Adolescent Prosociality
The current study presents a case in which adolescent prosociality is lower in neighborhoods with greater physical disorder. Current theory provides two interpretations for such a pattern: (1) that disorder signals a threatening environment and discourages prosociality (“broken windows theory”); (2) that disorder and low prosociality are both symptoms of a weak community (i.e., low collective efficacy). A survey of 642 students from a small Ameri…
Residential Mobility and Prosocial Development Within a Single City
Neighborhood social dynamics have been shown to impact behavioral development in residents, including levels of prosociality (i.e. positive social behavior). This study explores whether residential moves to neighborhoods with different social dynamics can influence further prosocial development. Prosociality, five domains of social support, and residential location were tracked between 2006 and 2009 in 397 adolescents across a small city in upsta…
Managing the Urban Commons
Intrasexual peer aggression and dating behavior during adolescence
It has been suggested that the use of intrasexual aggression is a form of competition associated with reproductive opportunities. Here the authors investigated the relationship between retrospective dating and flirting behavior and peer aggression and victimization during middle and high school. Results indicate that the use of peer aggression was associated with adaptive dating outcomes in both sexes, whereas experiencing peer victimization was …
Community perception
When entering an unfamiliar neighborhood, adaptive social decisions are dependent on an accurate assessment of the local safety. Studies of cities have shown that the maintenance of physical structures is correlated with the strength of ties between neighbors, which in turn is responsible for the crime level. Thus it should be theoretically possible to intuit neighborhood safety through the physical structures alone. Here we test whether people h…
Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data
The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that will require novel methodologies that convert such data into research-relevant measures. The authors illustrate these challenges by developing measures of “broken windows” from Boston’s constituent relationship management (CRM) system (aka 311 …
Broken (windows) theory
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Looking Through Broken Windows
Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal activity and by discouraging the positive social behavior that prevents crime. Scholars have debated the veracity of BWT, and here we conduct a meta-analysis of 96 studies to examine the effects of disorder on residents’ ( a) general proclivities for a…
Intrasexual peer aggression and dating behavior during adolescence
It has been suggested that the use of intrasexual aggression is a form of competition associated with reproductive opportunities. Here the authors investigated the relationship between retrospective dating and flirting behavior and peer aggression and victimization during middle and high school. Results indicate that the use of peer aggression was associated with adaptive dating outcomes in both sexes, whereas experiencing peer victimization was …
The Choice to Discriminate
The “choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program signals the mobility offered to voucher holders. However, some landlords use source of income (SOI) discrimination to exclude voucher holders—limiting their locational choices. We propose several factors likely to influence this landlord strategy including, market competitiveness, stereotypes, and racial discrimination. We examine the prevalence of express SOI discrimination and the effecti…
Broken Windows and Low Adolescent Prosociality
The current study presents a case in which adolescent prosociality is lower in neighborhoods with greater physical disorder. Current theory provides two interpretations for such a pattern: (1) that disorder signals a threatening environment and discourages prosociality (“broken windows theory”); (2) that disorder and low prosociality are both symptoms of a weak community (i.e., low collective efficacy). A survey of 642 students from a small Ameri…
Community perception
When entering an unfamiliar neighborhood, adaptive social decisions are dependent on an accurate assessment of the local safety. Studies of cities have shown that the maintenance of physical structures is correlated with the strength of ties between neighbors, which in turn is responsible for the crime level. Thus it should be theoretically possible to intuit neighborhood safety through the physical structures alone. Here we test whether people h…
Linking landlords to uncover ownership obscurity
Identifying the ownership of rental properties has been a difficult but important step in understanding the current state of property consolidation. We show that the difficulty in linking landlords to their properties has shifted in the past decade from the messy nature of administrative data to ownership obscurity through corporate entities, like Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). To develop a method to overcome both of these challenges, we com…
Managing the Urban Commons
Using small data to interpret big data
Residential Mobility and Prosocial Development Within a Single City
Neighborhood social dynamics have been shown to impact behavioral development in residents, including levels of prosociality (i.e. positive social behavior). This study explores whether residential moves to neighborhoods with different social dynamics can influence further prosocial development. Prosociality, five domains of social support, and residential location were tracked between 2006 and 2009 in 397 adolescents across a small city in upsta…
The Other Side of the Broken Window
Much research has focused on physical disorder in urban neighborhoods as evidence that the community does not maintain local norms and spaces. Little attention has been paid to the opposite: indicators of proactive investment in the neighborhood’s upkeep. This manuscript presents a methodology that translates a database of approved building permits into an ecometric of investment by community members, establishing basic content, criteria for reli…
Pacifying problem places
Crime is highly concentrated at places that lack capable place managers (i.e., landlords and their delegates). In response, numerous cities have instituted problem property interventions that pressure landowners to better manage properties suffering from decay, nuisance, or crime. This approach is distinctive in that it both targets a place and incentivizes those legally responsible to improve its management, yet little is known about the efficac…
Urban Heat Islets
Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street segments. Methods. We combined multiple data sets from Boston, Massachusetts, including remotely sensed measures of temperature and associated environmental characteristics (e.g., canopy cover), 911 dispatches for medical emergencies, daily weather conditions, and demographic and p…
Lamp Lighters and Sidewalk Smoothers
Research on collective efficacy in urban neighborhoods has focused predominantly on whether a community can regulate local behavior and spaces and less on how they do so. This study pursues the latter question by examining the social regularities that create collective efficacy, measured as the behavioral composition of a neighborhood (i.e., the extent to which each individual contributes to a social regularity). This perspective is applied to th…
Barriers in the Transfer Process for Hispanic and Hispanic Immigrant Students
This article reports barriers to transfer from the community college to bachelor's degree—granting institutions encountered by Hispanic students in the Dallas County Community College District. These Hispanic students were enrolled in a cultural studies course preparing them to transfer. Ethnographic methods—principally participant observation of the students and their families, interviews, and case studies—were used to analyze the barriers, thre…
Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective
Intrasexual peer aggression and dating behavior during adolescence
It has been suggested that the use of intrasexual aggression is a form of competition associated with reproductive opportunities. Here the authors investigated the relationship between retrospective dating and flirting behavior and peer aggression and victimization during middle and high school. Results indicate that the use of peer aggression was associated with adaptive dating outcomes in both sexes, whereas experiencing peer victimization was …
Community perception
When entering an unfamiliar neighborhood, adaptive social decisions are dependent on an accurate assessment of the local safety. Studies of cities have shown that the maintenance of physical structures is correlated with the strength of ties between neighbors, which in turn is responsible for the crime level. Thus it should be theoretically possible to intuit neighborhood safety through the physical structures alone. Here we test whether people h…
Residential Mobility and Prosocial Development Within a Single City
Neighborhood social dynamics have been shown to impact behavioral development in residents, including levels of prosociality (i.e. positive social behavior). This study explores whether residential moves to neighborhoods with different social dynamics can influence further prosocial development. Prosociality, five domains of social support, and residential location were tracked between 2006 and 2009 in 397 adolescents across a small city in upsta…
Managing the Urban Commons
Broken Windows and Low Adolescent Prosociality
The current study presents a case in which adolescent prosociality is lower in neighborhoods with greater physical disorder. Current theory provides two interpretations for such a pattern: (1) that disorder signals a threatening environment and discourages prosociality (“broken windows theory”); (2) that disorder and low prosociality are both symptoms of a weak community (i.e., low collective efficacy). A survey of 642 students from a small Ameri…
The Other Side of the Broken Window
Much research has focused on physical disorder in urban neighborhoods as evidence that the community does not maintain local norms and spaces. Little attention has been paid to the opposite: indicators of proactive investment in the neighborhood’s upkeep. This manuscript presents a methodology that translates a database of approved building permits into an ecometric of investment by community members, establishing basic content, criteria for reli…
Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data
The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that will require novel methodologies that convert such data into research-relevant measures. The authors illustrate these challenges by developing measures of “broken windows” from Boston’s constituent relationship management (CRM) system (aka 311 …
Lamp Lighters and Sidewalk Smoothers
Research on collective efficacy in urban neighborhoods has focused predominantly on whether a community can regulate local behavior and spaces and less on how they do so. This study pursues the latter question by examining the social regularities that create collective efficacy, measured as the behavioral composition of a neighborhood (i.e., the extent to which each individual contributes to a social regularity). This perspective is applied to th…
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Using small data to interpret big data
The Urban Commons
Through voicemail, apps, websites, and Twitter, Boston's sophisticated 311 system allows citizens to report potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, and vandalism that affect everyone's quality of life. Drawing on Boston's rich data, Daniel T. O'Brien offers a model of what smart technology can do for cities seeking both growth and sustainability
Looking Through Broken Windows
Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal activity and by discouraging the positive social behavior that prevents crime. Scholars have debated the veracity of BWT, and here we conduct a meta-analysis of 96 studies to examine the effects of disorder on residents’ ( a) general proclivities for a…
Broken (windows) theory
Urban Heat Islets
Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street segments. Methods. We combined multiple data sets from Boston, Massachusetts, including remotely sensed measures of temperature and associated environmental characteristics (e.g., canopy cover), 911 dispatches for medical emergencies, daily weather conditions, and demographic and p…
Who ‘Tweets’ Where and When, and How Does it Help Understand Crime Rates at Places? Measuring the Presence of Tourists and Commuters in Ambient Populations
How and Why is Crime More Concentrated in Some Neighborhoods than Others
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties
Strategies and inequities in balancing recreation and Covid exposure when visiting green spaces
Green spaces are beneficial for physical and mental health, especially during and after disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, created a trade-off: parks could be therapeutic but also could expose people to infection. This paradox posed inequities as marginalized populations often have less access to parks and were hit harder by the pandemic. We combined cellphone-generated mobility data with demographic indicators, a neighborhood survey, and…
The Choice to Discriminate
The “choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program signals the mobility offered to voucher holders. However, some landlords use source of income (SOI) discrimination to exclude voucher holders—limiting their locational choices. We propose several factors likely to influence this landlord strategy including, market competitiveness, stereotypes, and racial discrimination. We examine the prevalence of express SOI discrimination and the effecti…
Do Commercial Place Managers Explain Crime Across Places? Yes and NO(PE)
Pacifying problem places
Crime is highly concentrated at places that lack capable place managers (i.e., landlords and their delegates). In response, numerous cities have instituted problem property interventions that pressure landowners to better manage properties suffering from decay, nuisance, or crime. This approach is distinctive in that it both targets a place and incentivizes those legally responsible to improve its management, yet little is known about the efficac…
Linking landlords to uncover ownership obscurity
Identifying the ownership of rental properties has been a difficult but important step in understanding the current state of property consolidation. We show that the difficulty in linking landlords to their properties has shifted in the past decade from the messy nature of administrative data to ownership obscurity through corporate entities, like Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). To develop a method to overcome both of these challenges, we com…
Diminished mental well-being in the Covid-19 pandemic
Self-reported decline in mental well-being during the pandemic was associated with less social connection. • Residents in neighborhoods with a faster return to physical mobility experienced less decline in mental well-being. • Decline in mental well-being was not independently related to income decline. • Decline in mental well-being was not related to neighborhood-level risk of COVID-19 infection. • Persons of color reported less decline in ment…
Psychology (15 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (13 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 obras)