Over the past half century, scholars in the interdisciplinary field of judgment and decision
making have amassed a trove of findings, theories, and prescriptions regarding the …

Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building systems' operations and efficiency.
As a result, several innovative approaches have been introduced to quantify the dynamics of …

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an
important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential …

Agent-based modeling has become increasingly popular in recent years, but there is still no
codified set of recommendations or practices for how to use these models within a program …

The rise of big data—data that are not only large and massively multivariate but concern a
dizzying array of phenomena—represents a watershed moment for the social sciences …

Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind
that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define …

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that
accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the …

I discuss the concept of complexity and the burgeoning field of complex systems and their
relevance to sociology. I begin by comparing and contrasting various definitions of …

A growing body of research has examined how family dynamics shape residential mobility,
highlighting the social—as opposed to economic—drivers of mobility. However, few studies …

While poor families experience high residential instability, they also stay put for extended
periods of time before moving. When they do move, they are likely to move laterally to a …