Ahoura Zandiatashbar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4616900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahoura Zandiatashbar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahoura |
| FAMILY NAME | Zandiatashbar |
| SIGNATURE | ZANDIATASHBAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8198-4619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unveiling the dynamics of innovation districts
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas
Problem, research strategy, and findings Considering that safety is a key environmental factor that promotes health, understanding the relationship between built environment features around transit station areas and crime may shed light on how to foster healthy communities. Yet, there is limited work that has examined how the combination of different built environment features around transit correlate with different crimes. We addressed this issu…
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities
Intrastate applicability of National Census Response Rate Models
For the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau developed the Low Response Score (LRS) to predict census self‐response participation. Based on a previous hard‐to‐count metric, which accounts for people who are difficult to survey or count, the LRS was undoubtedly an improvement over previous census effort. However, census response behaviour can be sensitive to inter‐ and intrastate locational and socioeconomic differences; in other words, geographic …
Exploring the microgeography and typology of U.S. high-tech clusters
Despite the principal role of high-tech clusters in local planning practice and research, their location and sectoral typology at the granular level have been rarely studied. This study explores the location of U.S. high-tech clusters at a micro-scale by employing firm-level data sets and spatial statistics and examines their sectoral typology using market concentration indices in 52 large U.S regions. The majority (80 %) of the 627 tech clusters…
Compact development and adherence to stay-at-home order during the Covid-19 pandemic
Negative Consequences of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments
Emergent economic development policies reflect the challenges urban growth coalitions face in attracting the footloose tech-entrepreneurs of the global economy. This convergence between the focus on place and the harnessing of global capital has led to the proliferation of innovation-igniting urban developments (IIUD)—place-based economic development strategies to boost the local knowledge economy. Economic developers are using IIUD strategies to…
The Quest for Creative Industries
Creative industries have gained increasing attention in light of the cultural economy as viable magnets for local and regional economic development. Policy makers thus would benefit from attracting creative industries as potential economic boosters. However, it is hard to target such catalyst industries without better knowledge of the urban form conditions that may influence the location preference of these industries; do creative industries favo…
High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability
The Missing Link between Place and Productivity? The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on the Knowledge and Creative Economy
Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station characteristics including accessibility, walkability, density, and mixed uses may create environments beneficial for creative and knowledge industries. However, the evidence linking place to productivity, as measured by firm sales volume is lacking. Using clus…
Does urban form matter for innovation productivity? A national multi-level study of the association between neighbourhood innovation capacity and urban sprawl
Geography of innovation, creative clustering, urban buzz and innovation districts are place-based concepts that have emerged as a result of the US economy’s transformation to knowledge-intensive economies. The notable built environment characteristics of these concepts are spatial clustering, walkability and proximity to urban amenities, diversity, regional connectivity and agglomeration. While several of these characteristics have been associate…
Impacts of transit and walking amenities on robust local knowledge economy
Does urban form matter for innovation productivity? A national multi-level study of the association between neighbourhood innovation capacity and urban sprawl
Geography of innovation, creative clustering, urban buzz and innovation districts are place-based concepts that have emerged as a result of the US economy’s transformation to knowledge-intensive economies. The notable built environment characteristics of these concepts are spatial clustering, walkability and proximity to urban amenities, diversity, regional connectivity and agglomeration. While several of these characteristics have been associate…
Impacts of transit and walking amenities on robust local knowledge economy
The Missing Link between Place and Productivity? The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on the Knowledge and Creative Economy
Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station characteristics including accessibility, walkability, density, and mixed uses may create environments beneficial for creative and knowledge industries. However, the evidence linking place to productivity, as measured by firm sales volume is lacking. Using clus…
Unveiling the dynamics of innovation districts
Exploring the microgeography and typology of U.S. high-tech clusters
Despite the principal role of high-tech clusters in local planning practice and research, their location and sectoral typology at the granular level have been rarely studied. This study explores the location of U.S. high-tech clusters at a micro-scale by employing firm-level data sets and spatial statistics and examines their sectoral typology using market concentration indices in 52 large U.S regions. The majority (80 %) of the 627 tech clusters…
Impacts of transit and walking amenities on robust local knowledge economy
The Quest for Creative Industries
Creative industries have gained increasing attention in light of the cultural economy as viable magnets for local and regional economic development. Policy makers thus would benefit from attracting creative industries as potential economic boosters. However, it is hard to target such catalyst industries without better knowledge of the urban form conditions that may influence the location preference of these industries; do creative industries favo…
High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability
The Missing Link between Place and Productivity? The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on the Knowledge and Creative Economy
Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station characteristics including accessibility, walkability, density, and mixed uses may create environments beneficial for creative and knowledge industries. However, the evidence linking place to productivity, as measured by firm sales volume is lacking. Using clus…
Does urban form matter for innovation productivity? A national multi-level study of the association between neighbourhood innovation capacity and urban sprawl
Geography of innovation, creative clustering, urban buzz and innovation districts are place-based concepts that have emerged as a result of the US economy’s transformation to knowledge-intensive economies. The notable built environment characteristics of these concepts are spatial clustering, walkability and proximity to urban amenities, diversity, regional connectivity and agglomeration. While several of these characteristics have been associate…
Negative Consequences of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments
Emergent economic development policies reflect the challenges urban growth coalitions face in attracting the footloose tech-entrepreneurs of the global economy. This convergence between the focus on place and the harnessing of global capital has led to the proliferation of innovation-igniting urban developments (IIUD)—place-based economic development strategies to boost the local knowledge economy. Economic developers are using IIUD strategies to…
Compact development and adherence to stay-at-home order during the Covid-19 pandemic
Intrastate applicability of National Census Response Rate Models
For the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau developed the Low Response Score (LRS) to predict census self‐response participation. Based on a previous hard‐to‐count metric, which accounts for people who are difficult to survey or count, the LRS was undoubtedly an improvement over previous census effort. However, census response behaviour can be sensitive to inter‐ and intrastate locational and socioeconomic differences; in other words, geographic …
Exploring the microgeography and typology of U.S. high-tech clusters
Despite the principal role of high-tech clusters in local planning practice and research, their location and sectoral typology at the granular level have been rarely studied. This study explores the location of U.S. high-tech clusters at a micro-scale by employing firm-level data sets and spatial statistics and examines their sectoral typology using market concentration indices in 52 large U.S regions. The majority (80 %) of the 627 tech clusters…
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas
Problem, research strategy, and findings Considering that safety is a key environmental factor that promotes health, understanding the relationship between built environment features around transit station areas and crime may shed light on how to foster healthy communities. Yet, there is limited work that has examined how the combination of different built environment features around transit correlate with different crimes. We addressed this issu…
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities
Unveiling the dynamics of innovation districts
Geography (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Regional science (7 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works)