A living list of the research conducted as part of the Urban Genome Project.

Toronto Urban Evolution Model

Silver, Daniel, Patrick Adler, and Mark S. Fox. 2022. “Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part I: Context” Urban Science 6, no. 4: 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040087

Fox, Mark S., Daniel Silver, and Patrick Adler. 2022. “Towards a Model of Urban Evolution: Part II: Formal Model” Urban Science 6, no. 4: 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040088

Silver, Daniel, Mark S. Fox, and Patrick Adler. 2022. “Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part III: Rules of Evolution” Urban Science 6, no. 4: 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040089

Fox, Mark S., Daniel Silver, Thiago Silva, and Xinyi Zhang. 2022. “Towards a Model of Urban Evolution Part IV: Evolutionary (Formetic) Distance—An Interpretation of Yelp Review Data” Urban Science 6, no. 4: 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040086


Silver, Daniel, Thiago H Silva, and Patrick Adler. 2022. “Changing the Scene: applying four models of social evolution to the scenescape.” Wuhan University Journal, September. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363728979_Changing_the_Scene_applying_four_models_of_social_evolution_to_the_scenescape.

Silver, Daniel, Clayton Childress, Monica Lee, Adam Slez, and Fabio Dias. 2022. “Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music.” American Journal of Sociology 128 (1): 224–86. https://doi.org/10.1086/719937.

Kobellarz, Jordan K., Miloš Broćić, Alexandre R. Graeml, Daniel Silver, and Thiago H. Silva. 2022. “Reaching the Bubble May Not Be Enough: News Media Role in Online Political Polarization.” EPJ Data Science 11 (1): 47. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00357-3.

Keidar, Noga, and Daniel Silver. 2022. “The Space of Ideas: Public Art Policy and the Concept of Urban Model Spaces.” Journal of Urban Affairs, April, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2038033.

Calderón-Figueroa, Fernando A., Daniel Silver, and Olimpia Bidian. 2022. “The Dilemmas of Spatializing Social Issues.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8 (January): 237802312211030. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231221103059.

Olson, Alexander W., Kexin Zhang, Fernando Calderon‐Figueroa, Ronen Yakubov, Scott Sanner, Daniel Silver, and Dani Arribas‐Bel. 2021. “Classification and Regression via Integer Optimization for Neighborhood Change.” Geographical Analysis 53 (2): 192–212. https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12252.

Doering, Jan, Daniel Silver, and Zack Taylor. 2021. “The Spatial Articulation of Urban Political Cleavages.” Urban Affairs Review 57 (4): 911–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087420940789.

Silver, Daniel, and Thiago H Silva. 2021. “Complex Causal Structures of Neighbourhood Change: Evidence From a Functionalist Model and Yelp Data.” Preprint. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wprf8.

Dias, Fabio, and Daniel Silver. 2021. “Neighborhood Dynamics with Unharmonized Longitudinal Data.” Geographical Analysis 53 (2): 170–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12224.

Olson, Alexander W., Fernando Calderón-Figueroa, Olimpia Bidian, Daniel Silver, and Scott Sanner. 2021. “Reading the City through Its Neighbourhoods: Deep Text Embeddings of Yelp Reviews as a Basis for Determining Similarity and Change.” Cities 110 (March): 103045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103045.

Silver, Daniel, Ultan Byrne, and Patrick Adler. 2021. “Venues and Segregation: A Revised Schelling Model.” Edited by Giorgio Fagiolo. PLOS ONE 16 (1): e0242611. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242611.

Silver, Daniel, and Thiago H. Silva. 2021. “A Markov Model of Urban Evolution: Neighbourhood Change as a Complex Process.” Edited by Wenjia Zhang. PLOS ONE 16 (1): e0245357. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245357.

Senefonte, Helen, Gabriel Frizzo, Myriam Delgado, Ricardo Lüders, Daniel Silver, and Thiago Silva. 2020. “Regional Influences on Tourists Mobility Through the Lens of Social Sensing.” In Social Informatics, edited by Samin Aref, Kalina Bontcheva, Marco Braghieri, Frank Dignum, Fosca Giannotti, Francesco Grisolia, and Dino Pedreschi, 12467:312–19. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60975-7_23.

Mark Fox presents at a meeting among UGP members and the Urban Clinic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 2022.