Irene Farah

Biographic Data

ID6466542
NAMEIrene Farah
GIVEN NAMESIrene
FAMILY NAMEFarah
SIGNATUREFARAH I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0003-0227-9896
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS)

    Open AccessKevin Credit, Irene Farah et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2026

    This paper describes a straightforward method for calculating an open-source Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS) that measures walkability at the block group scale based on walking distance to business establishments, schools, and parks. Exploratory analysis of the WAS reveals high concentrations of walkable accessibility in the centres of the densest and/or largest cities. Our optimised specification ( decay = 0.008, upper = 800, k = 30) performs…

  • Building a longitudinal geospatial dataset of micro-businesses in Mexico City

    Open AccessIrene Farah, Claire Kelling et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2026

    We introduce a methodology and open-source code to construct a longitudinal dataset using georeferenced business data from Mexico’s National Statistical Directory of Economic Units (DENUE). The data includes the business’ coordinates and other geographic characteristics, but imprecision in the coordinates across years, lack of business IDs before 2015, and concerns with these recently introduced IDs make longitudinal analysis of business continui…

  • The Legitimacy Trap

    Open AccessIrene FarahARTICLEInternational Journal of Urban…2026References: 6

    Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement. This diversity influences regulatory approaches, and understanding these differences can provide insights into broader issues of …

  • Trends in food and beverage purchases in informal, mixed, and formal food outlets in Mexico

    Open AccessAna Paula Domínguez-Barreto, Irene Farah et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: The retail food environment in Mexico is characterized by the co-existence of both, formal and informal food outlets. Yet, the contribution of these outlets to food purchases over time has not been documented. Understanding the longitudinal trends where Mexican households purchase their foods is critical for the development of future food retail policies. Methods: We used data from Mexico's National Income and Expenditure Survey from …

  • Recent greening may curb urban warming in Latin American cities of better economic conditions

    Open AccessY Ju, Iryna Dronova et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

    Rising temperatures have profound impacts on the well-being of urban residents. However, factors explaining the temporal variability of urban thermal environment, or urban warming, remain insufficiently understood, especially in the Global South. Addressing this gap, we studied the relationship between city-level economic conditions and urban warming, and how urban green space mediated this relationship, focusing on 359 major Latin American citie…

  • Food and beverage purchases at formal and informal outlets in Mexico

    Open AccessIrene Farah, Dalia Stern et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: To examine food and beverage purchasing patterns across formal and informal outlets among Mexican households’ and explore differences by urbanicity and income. Design: Cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of households. We calculated the proportion of total food and beverage expenditure in each household by food outlet type overall and by urbanicity and income. We defined informal outlets as those which are not r…