Research Summary
Research examines the outcomes of local planning and economic development policies and local spending decisions to better understand how local policy decisions affect different groups, particularly the poor. Current research is focused on neighborhood and regional population movements in response to land use and economic development policy choices in U.S. cities.
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Recent Publications
Geography Beyond Boundaries: Teaching Redistricting as an Entry Point to the Broader Discipline of Geography
Fowler, C. S., 2024, In: Geography Teacher. 21, 4, p. 148-151 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
New Commuting Zone delineation for the U.S. based on 2020 data
Fowler, C. S., Dec 2024, In: Scientific Data. 11, 1, 975.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Optimized spatial information for 1990, 2000, and 2010 U.S. census microdata
Fowler, C. S., Gaboardi, J. D., Schroeder, J. P. & Van Riper, D. C., Dec 2024, In: Scientific Data. 11, 1, 37.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Attendance zones in the suburbs
Asson, S., Frankenberg, E., Fowler, C. S. & Buck, R. K., Feb 2023, In: Phi Delta Kappan. 104, 5, p. 11-17 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Data access and the study of educational equity: Implications from a national school boundary data collection effort
Asson, S., Frankenberg, E., Maselli, A., Burfoot-Rochford, I., Fowler, C. S. & Buck, R. K., Jun 1 2023, In: Education Finance and Policy. 18, 3, p. 547-563 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, between 1990 and 2010
Frankenberg, E., Fowler, C. S., Asson, S. & Buck, R. K., 2023, In: RSF. 9, 2, p. 75-103 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide: An Analysis of Metropolitan Counties, 1980-2010
Baumer, E. P., Fowler, C., Messner, S. F. & Rosenfeld, R., 2022, In: Sociological Quarterly. 63, 3, p. 401-425 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Day time, night time, over time: geographic and temporal uncertainty when linking event and contextual data
Folch, D. C., Fowler, C. S. & Mikaelian, L., Dec 2021, In: Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source. 20, 1, 51.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Proximity to sources of airborne lead is associated with reductions in Children's executive function in the first four years of life
Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Warkentien, S., Willoughby, M., Fowler, C., Folch, D. C. & Blair, C., Mar 2021, In: Health and Place. 68, 102517.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bridging the gap between geographic concept and the data we have: The case of labor markets in the USA
Fowler, C. S. & Jensen, L., Oct 1 2020, In: Environment and Planning A. 52, 7, p. 1395-1414 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Who are the People in my Neighborhood? The “Contextual Fallacy” of Measuring Individual Context with Census Geographies
Fowler, C. S., Frey, N., Folch, D. C., Nagle, N. & Spielman, S., Apr 1 2020, In: Geographical Analysis. 52, 2, p. 155-168 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Key assumptions in multiscale segregation measures: How zoning and strength of spatial association condition outcomes
Fowler, C. S., Nov 1 2018, In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 45, 6, p. 1055-1072 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
“Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods: The Case of South Seattle
Lumley-Sapanski, A. & Fowler, C. S., Mar 1 2017, In: City and Community. 16, 1, p. 86-115 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reassessing and Revising Commuting Zones for 2010: History, Assessment, and Updates for U.S. ‘Labor-Sheds’ 1990–2010
Fowler, C. S., Rhubart, D. C. & Jensen, L., Apr 1 2016, In: Population Research and Policy Review. 35, 2, p. 263-286 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Segregation as a multiscalar phenomenon and its implications for neighborhood-scale research: The case of South Seattle 1990-2010
Fowler, C. S., Jan 2 2016, In: Urban Geography. 37, 1, p. 1-25 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review