Robert Goodspeed
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Goodspeed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodspeed |
| SIGNATURE | GOODSPEED R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4858-8387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Diverse dynamics of urban sprawl: Examining changes in urban form, forest landscapes, and demographics across the Metropolitan Detroit region
Urban growth in cities across the United States and the world has continued to follow the low-density pattern often called urban sprawl. Prior research has rarely linked changes in urban form, forest landscapes, and racial diversity, instead often analyzing these phenomena in isolation. This paper explores the relationships among variables in these categories through a hierarchical cluster analysis of the 231 local jurisdictions in the Metropolit…
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options
Scenario planning is increasingly used to manage uncertainty, but such planning often struggles to influence decision making and help communities navigate multiple futures. This article proposes a framework for planning practice that integrates scenario planning and real option theory to identify adaptation options that make plans or projects responsive to multiple futures. The framework is explained through a demonstration case, Plan Bay Area 20…
Incorporating water quality into land use scenario analysis with random forest models
Emerging research has begun to document the nuanced ways that urban form can influence water quality in urban areas. To facilitate the greater consideration of water quality by planning practitioners, this paper illustrates a two-step method to predict the water quality performance of land use scenarios through the presentation of a case study in the Huron River watershed in Michigan, USA. First, random forest models are used to relate 38 urban f…
Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics
From Exploratory Scenarios to Plans: Bridging the Gap
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
"Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems." Journal of the American Planning Association, 88(4), pp. 591–592
A regional spatial planning model for multifunctional green infrastructure
There is a growing interest in planning for green infrastructure, as well as a growing recognition of the multifunctional nature of green infrastructure, since it provides many social and environmental benefits to cities and regions. However, there is a lack of appropriate methods for prioritizing the locations for green infrastructure interventions. In response, this article proposes a spatial multi-criteria analysis for green infrastructure. We…
Eviction Case Filings and Neighborhood Characteristics in Urban and Rural Places: A Michigan Statewide Analysis
A growing body of evidence documents the negative impacts of eviction case filings on U.S. tenants, including forced moves, additional costs, and obstacles tenants face in finding future housing. Existing research relating evictions or eviction cases to neighborhood characteristics is geographically limited, often to metropolitan regions. In this article, we analyze nearly all eviction case filings in Michigan from 2014 to 2018 at the census trac…
Smart Cities in Community Development: From Participation in Cybernetics to Building Knowledge Infrastructures
The call for papers for this special issue defined the smart city as “one where information and communication technologies (ICTs) are heavily used to advance existing conditions to a perceived impr
Using Exploratory Scenarios in Planning Practice: A Spectrum of Approaches
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Despite growing interest by practitioners in using exploratory scenarios within urban planning practice, there are few detailed guidelines for how to do this. Through the discussion of five case examples, we illustrate different approaches to linking exploratory scenarios to different planning contexts. We conclude by observing that to directly inform a plan, regardless of the specific approach taken, exp…
Lessons for developing a planning support system infrastructure: The case of Southern California's Scenario Planning Model
Although planning support systems are being more widely adopted by professional planners, there are very few examples of planning support system infrastructures designed to support planning practices on an ongoing basis. This paper reports the result of an exploratory qualitative study of the Southern California Association of Governments' Scenario Planning Model, an innovative new planning support system infrastructure. Interviews with professio…
Using social media to assess the consumer nutrition environment: Comparing Yelp reviews with a direct observation audit instrument for grocery stores
Objective To examine the feasibility of using social media to assess the consumer nutrition environment by comparing sentiment expressed in Yelp reviews with information obtained from a direct observation audit instrument for grocery stores. Design Trained raters used the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores (NEMS-S) in 100 grocery stores from July 2015 to March 2016. Yelp reviews were available for sixty-nine of these stores and were …
An alternative to slow transit, drunk driving, and walking in bad weather: An exploratory study of ridesourcing mode choice and demand
Companies providing ridesourcing, or the use of mobile phone apps to request rides from drivers of privately-owned vehicles, have expanded rapidly in many cities in recent years. To shed light on this phenomenon, this paper reports an exploratory study of ridesourcing trip patterns and mode choice in Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA, which obtained a convenience sample of 167 respondents (reporting 192 trips) via geographically targeted online and…
Urban social listening: Potential and pitfalls for using microblogging data in studying cities, by Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Rensky, Cara Foster-Karim, Andrew Wiley, and Dibyendu Das
Analyzing stakeholder's perceptions of uncertainty to advance collaborative sustainability science: Case study of the watershed assessment of nutrient loads to the Detroit River project
Community and Urban Places in a Digital World
The sources of big data of most interest to urban social researchers arise from the adoption of digital information and communications technologies (ICTs)—especially Internet–connected smartphones and computers—by city residents themselves for nearly all aspects of economic and social life. As much as might be learned from this new data, they also reflect broader changes in the nature of urban community. ICTs are not only loosening ties among res…
Using Social Media to Identify Sources of Healthy Food in Urban Neighborhoods
Smart cities: Moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems: Figure 1
This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology to pursue efficient systems through real-time monitoring and control. Second, this definition is not new and equivalent to the idea of urban cybernetics debated in the 1970s. Third, drawing on a discussion of Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Center, I argue that viewing…
Smart cities: Moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems: Figure 1
This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology to pursue efficient systems through real-time monitoring and control. Second, this definition is not new and equivalent to the idea of urban cybernetics debated in the 1970s. Third, drawing on a discussion of Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Center, I argue that viewing…
Community and Urban Places in a Digital World
The sources of big data of most interest to urban social researchers arise from the adoption of digital information and communications technologies (ICTs)—especially Internet–connected smartphones and computers—by city residents themselves for nearly all aspects of economic and social life. As much as might be learned from this new data, they also reflect broader changes in the nature of urban community. ICTs are not only loosening ties among res…
Using Social Media to Identify Sources of Healthy Food in Urban Neighborhoods
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Smart cities: Moving beyond urban cybernetics to tackle wicked problems: Figure 1
This article makes three related arguments. First, that although many definitions of the smart city have been proposed, corporate promoters say a smart city uses information technology to pursue efficient systems through real-time monitoring and control. Second, this definition is not new and equivalent to the idea of urban cybernetics debated in the 1970s. Third, drawing on a discussion of Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Center, I argue that viewing…
Community and Urban Places in a Digital World
The sources of big data of most interest to urban social researchers arise from the adoption of digital information and communications technologies (ICTs)—especially Internet–connected smartphones and computers—by city residents themselves for nearly all aspects of economic and social life. As much as might be learned from this new data, they also reflect broader changes in the nature of urban community. ICTs are not only loosening ties among res…
Using Social Media to Identify Sources of Healthy Food in Urban Neighborhoods
Urban social listening: Potential and pitfalls for using microblogging data in studying cities, by Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Rensky, Cara Foster-Karim, Andrew Wiley, and Dibyendu Das
Analyzing stakeholder's perceptions of uncertainty to advance collaborative sustainability science: Case study of the watershed assessment of nutrient loads to the Detroit River project
Lessons for developing a planning support system infrastructure: The case of Southern California's Scenario Planning Model
Although planning support systems are being more widely adopted by professional planners, there are very few examples of planning support system infrastructures designed to support planning practices on an ongoing basis. This paper reports the result of an exploratory qualitative study of the Southern California Association of Governments' Scenario Planning Model, an innovative new planning support system infrastructure. Interviews with professio…
Using social media to assess the consumer nutrition environment: Comparing Yelp reviews with a direct observation audit instrument for grocery stores
Objective To examine the feasibility of using social media to assess the consumer nutrition environment by comparing sentiment expressed in Yelp reviews with information obtained from a direct observation audit instrument for grocery stores. Design Trained raters used the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores (NEMS-S) in 100 grocery stores from July 2015 to March 2016. Yelp reviews were available for sixty-nine of these stores and were …
An alternative to slow transit, drunk driving, and walking in bad weather: An exploratory study of ridesourcing mode choice and demand
Companies providing ridesourcing, or the use of mobile phone apps to request rides from drivers of privately-owned vehicles, have expanded rapidly in many cities in recent years. To shed light on this phenomenon, this paper reports an exploratory study of ridesourcing trip patterns and mode choice in Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA, which obtained a convenience sample of 167 respondents (reporting 192 trips) via geographically targeted online and…
Using Exploratory Scenarios in Planning Practice: A Spectrum of Approaches
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Despite growing interest by practitioners in using exploratory scenarios within urban planning practice, there are few detailed guidelines for how to do this. Through the discussion of five case examples, we illustrate different approaches to linking exploratory scenarios to different planning contexts. We conclude by observing that to directly inform a plan, regardless of the specific approach taken, exp…
Eviction Case Filings and Neighborhood Characteristics in Urban and Rural Places: A Michigan Statewide Analysis
A growing body of evidence documents the negative impacts of eviction case filings on U.S. tenants, including forced moves, additional costs, and obstacles tenants face in finding future housing. Existing research relating evictions or eviction cases to neighborhood characteristics is geographically limited, often to metropolitan regions. In this article, we analyze nearly all eviction case filings in Michigan from 2014 to 2018 at the census trac…
Smart Cities in Community Development: From Participation in Cybernetics to Building Knowledge Infrastructures
The call for papers for this special issue defined the smart city as “one where information and communication technologies (ICTs) are heavily used to advance existing conditions to a perceived impr
From Exploratory Scenarios to Plans: Bridging the Gap
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
"Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems." Journal of the American Planning Association, 88(4), pp. 591–592
A regional spatial planning model for multifunctional green infrastructure
There is a growing interest in planning for green infrastructure, as well as a growing recognition of the multifunctional nature of green infrastructure, since it provides many social and environmental benefits to cities and regions. However, there is a lack of appropriate methods for prioritizing the locations for green infrastructure interventions. In response, this article proposes a spatial multi-criteria analysis for green infrastructure. We…
Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options
Scenario planning is increasingly used to manage uncertainty, but such planning often struggles to influence decision making and help communities navigate multiple futures. This article proposes a framework for planning practice that integrates scenario planning and real option theory to identify adaptation options that make plans or projects responsive to multiple futures. The framework is explained through a demonstration case, Plan Bay Area 20…
Incorporating water quality into land use scenario analysis with random forest models
Emerging research has begun to document the nuanced ways that urban form can influence water quality in urban areas. To facilitate the greater consideration of water quality by planning practitioners, this paper illustrates a two-step method to predict the water quality performance of land use scenarios through the presentation of a case study in the Huron River watershed in Michigan, USA. First, random forest models are used to relate 38 urban f…
Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics
More than Analytics: Five Approaches to Educating Professionals to Shape Today’s Digital Cities
In the last two decades, a variety of digital technologies have proliferated in cities. Urban planning educators must respond to this given local resources, constraints, and options. This commentary reviews curricular innovations being undertaken by planning faculty at five diverse institutions to advance pedagogy beyond analytics. Our contribution is to identify three general approaches to expand teaching on digital technologies: (1) undertake r…
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Diverse dynamics of urban sprawl: Examining changes in urban form, forest landscapes, and demographics across the Metropolitan Detroit region
Urban growth in cities across the United States and the world has continued to follow the low-density pattern often called urban sprawl. Prior research has rarely linked changes in urban form, forest landscapes, and racial diversity, instead often analyzing these phenomena in isolation. This paper explores the relationships among variables in these categories through a hierarchical cluster analysis of the 231 local jurisdictions in the Metropolit…
Computer Science (12 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works)