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Papers by Ariadna Reyes
Energies, Sep 18, 2023
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Sep 3, 2023
Sustainability, Nov 2, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to licen... more 4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to license-plated based driving restrictions 5. Report Date
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Sep 30, 2023
Urban Studies, Dec 1, 2020
This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type ... more This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type and socioeconomic factors covary with individuals' commute mode choice for 1.2 million low-income workers in the USA and Mexico. Comparing the commute patterns of low-income households across the USA-Mexico border sheds light on the consistency of estimated relationships across global contexts and the likely transferability of transportation and land use policies from the Global North to the Global South. We find many common relationships on each side of the border, despite substantial socioeconomic and urban differences. For example, wealthier and better-educated low-income workers in low-density metropolitan areas with substantial road supply are more likely to drive to work and less likely to use active modes. We also find some considerable differences between the magnitude and even direction of associations between predictor variables and commuter mode choice. In terms of public policy, efforts to reduce driving or promote compact development are more likely to reduce driving and more likely to be propoor in Mexico than in the USA. In Mexico, just 13% of low-income workers commute by car and dense urban form is relatively strongly associated with increases in transit, non-motorised modes and working at home. High rates of driving and auto-oriented urban form make policies to reduce driving particularly likely to be regressive in most US metropolitan areas.
Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment, Mar 1, 2022
University of Texas at Austin. Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions, Feb 1, 2020
Local Environment
Environmental Justice (EJ) is a major concern for low-income communities across the US, but gover... more Environmental Justice (EJ) is a major concern for low-income communities across the US, but government responses to these injustices remain inconsistent, often because EJ issues are overlooked or ignored in government decision-making. Despite this issue, little research examines the procedural elements influencing whether EJ is considered in government activities or the factors influencing whether EJ concerns are included on local government policy agendas. We use Qualitative Comparative Analysis with embedded comparative case studies to systematically examine 1784 city council meeting minutes from the 13 largest Texas cities between 2018 and 2020 to identify key social and government characteristics driving whether EJ issues are addressed on government agendas. Our findings reveal several key characteristics that are associated with high levels of EJ attention at the local government level including liberal politics, high levels of racial representation in government, and racial and gender diversity. Even within liberal cities, local governments that are not racially diverse, supported by female leadership, or highly representative of the populations they serve are unlikely to devote substantial attention to critical EJ issues on their policy agendas. The results demonstrate the critical role that procedural justice in the agenda-setting process has on social equity.
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-usj-10.1177_0042098020965442 for How do low-income commuters get ... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-usj-10.1177_0042098020965442 for How do low-income commuters get to work in US and Mexican cities? A comparative empirical assessment by Erick Guerra, Shengxiao Li and Ariadna Reyes in Urban Studies
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2022
Urban Studies, 2020
This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type ... more This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type and socioeconomic factors covary with individuals’ commute mode choice for 1.2 million low-income workers in the USA and Mexico. Comparing the commute patterns of low-income households across the USA–Mexico border sheds light on the consistency of estimated relationships across global contexts and the likely transferability of transportation and land use policies from the Global North to the Global South. We find many common relationships on each side of the border, despite substantial socioeconomic and urban differences. For example, wealthier and better-educated low-income workers in low-density metropolitan areas with substantial road supply are more likely to drive to work and less likely to use active modes. We also find some considerable differences between the magnitude and even direction of associations between predictor variables and commuter mode choice. In terms of public poli...
Planning Practice & Research, 2020
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate do... more This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students' development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students' scholarly identities and demystified the publication process. However, efforts should be made to maintain the practice of writing, sharing, and reviewing and the course should more explicitly foster critical reflections on the relationship between writing, scholarly identity, and knowledge production.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2020
This paper provides a new perspective on the trade-offs between housing location and transportati... more This paper provides a new perspective on the trade-offs between housing location and transportation in Mexico City. Fieldwork provides detailed, community-level information on residents’ commutes across two neighborhoods that differ in their proximity to the urban core, and the consolidation of local retail economies. After controlling for household income, a residence in the peripheral housing development of Los Alamos increases commute times by 114 to 139 percent when compared with the informal community of Isidro Fabela in Mexico City. Informal workers spend 42 percent less time commuting than formal workers because they work in businesses within their local retail economy.
Current Urban Studies, 2020
Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened... more Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened in Quito in 2016 to tackle global urban challenges. With cities experiencing ever-increasing levels of poverty, inequality, and vulnerability to climate change, Habitat's New Urban Agenda outlines its priorities for sustainable urban development considering current urban realities. This paper aims to assess the changing dynamics that have paved the road towards Habitat III and to evaluate the ongoing prospects for its effective policy implementation by analyzing: 1) the changing development paradigms that have informed the three meetings, and 2) the nature, adequacy and influence of Habitat policy frameworks. Our analysis elucidates the weak commitment of nations at framing and implementing policies that help advance past Habitat's agendas. This leads us to conclude that local governments may be better suited to promote just and sustainable development. Promising policymaking may occur if governments can intersect the principles of the New Urban Agenda with other global agendas, including the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, it is relatively clear four years after Habitat III, that local commitment to these principles is not uniform either and that only certain world regions are actively participating in their implementation.
4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to licen... more 4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to license-plated based driving restrictions 5. Report Date
Sustainability
Given the implications of energy use in housing units for global warming, life cycle assessment (... more Given the implications of energy use in housing units for global warming, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although informal settlements, currently known as colonias populares, or barrios, house most of the urban population in Latin America, there is a poor understanding of how people in these communities use energy and contribute to GHG emissions. This investigation provides a comprehensive analysis of resource consumption in Mexico City’s colonia popular, including self-help housing, household energy consumption, and transportation. As there is no spatially specific data on energy use, the author conducted field research in the informal community of Isidro Fabela, founded in the 1960s. Isidro Fabela is an illuminating community that helps understand the energy use of informal settlements at advanced stages of urban consolidation. A mixed-method research approach served to collect empirical data through observations, household sur...
Planning Practice and Research, 2019
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate do... more This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ scholarly identities and demystified the publication process. However, efforts should be made to maintain the practice of writing, sharing, and reviewing and the course should more explicitly foster critical reflections on the relationship between writing, scholarly identity, and knowledge production.
Energies, Sep 18, 2023
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Sep 3, 2023
Sustainability, Nov 2, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to licen... more 4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to license-plated based driving restrictions 5. Report Date
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Sep 30, 2023
Urban Studies, Dec 1, 2020
This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type ... more This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type and socioeconomic factors covary with individuals' commute mode choice for 1.2 million low-income workers in the USA and Mexico. Comparing the commute patterns of low-income households across the USA-Mexico border sheds light on the consistency of estimated relationships across global contexts and the likely transferability of transportation and land use policies from the Global North to the Global South. We find many common relationships on each side of the border, despite substantial socioeconomic and urban differences. For example, wealthier and better-educated low-income workers in low-density metropolitan areas with substantial road supply are more likely to drive to work and less likely to use active modes. We also find some considerable differences between the magnitude and even direction of associations between predictor variables and commuter mode choice. In terms of public policy, efforts to reduce driving or promote compact development are more likely to reduce driving and more likely to be propoor in Mexico than in the USA. In Mexico, just 13% of low-income workers commute by car and dense urban form is relatively strongly associated with increases in transit, non-motorised modes and working at home. High rates of driving and auto-oriented urban form make policies to reduce driving particularly likely to be regressive in most US metropolitan areas.
Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment, Mar 1, 2022
University of Texas at Austin. Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions, Feb 1, 2020
Local Environment
Environmental Justice (EJ) is a major concern for low-income communities across the US, but gover... more Environmental Justice (EJ) is a major concern for low-income communities across the US, but government responses to these injustices remain inconsistent, often because EJ issues are overlooked or ignored in government decision-making. Despite this issue, little research examines the procedural elements influencing whether EJ is considered in government activities or the factors influencing whether EJ concerns are included on local government policy agendas. We use Qualitative Comparative Analysis with embedded comparative case studies to systematically examine 1784 city council meeting minutes from the 13 largest Texas cities between 2018 and 2020 to identify key social and government characteristics driving whether EJ issues are addressed on government agendas. Our findings reveal several key characteristics that are associated with high levels of EJ attention at the local government level including liberal politics, high levels of racial representation in government, and racial and gender diversity. Even within liberal cities, local governments that are not racially diverse, supported by female leadership, or highly representative of the populations they serve are unlikely to devote substantial attention to critical EJ issues on their policy agendas. The results demonstrate the critical role that procedural justice in the agenda-setting process has on social equity.
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-usj-10.1177_0042098020965442 for How do low-income commuters get ... more Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-usj-10.1177_0042098020965442 for How do low-income commuters get to work in US and Mexican cities? A comparative empirical assessment by Erick Guerra, Shengxiao Li and Ariadna Reyes in Urban Studies
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2022
Urban Studies, 2020
This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type ... more This paper applies multinomial logit models to examine how metropolitan urban form, housing type and socioeconomic factors covary with individuals’ commute mode choice for 1.2 million low-income workers in the USA and Mexico. Comparing the commute patterns of low-income households across the USA–Mexico border sheds light on the consistency of estimated relationships across global contexts and the likely transferability of transportation and land use policies from the Global North to the Global South. We find many common relationships on each side of the border, despite substantial socioeconomic and urban differences. For example, wealthier and better-educated low-income workers in low-density metropolitan areas with substantial road supply are more likely to drive to work and less likely to use active modes. We also find some considerable differences between the magnitude and even direction of associations between predictor variables and commuter mode choice. In terms of public poli...
Planning Practice & Research, 2020
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate do... more This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students' development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students' scholarly identities and demystified the publication process. However, efforts should be made to maintain the practice of writing, sharing, and reviewing and the course should more explicitly foster critical reflections on the relationship between writing, scholarly identity, and knowledge production.
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2020
This paper provides a new perspective on the trade-offs between housing location and transportati... more This paper provides a new perspective on the trade-offs between housing location and transportation in Mexico City. Fieldwork provides detailed, community-level information on residents’ commutes across two neighborhoods that differ in their proximity to the urban core, and the consolidation of local retail economies. After controlling for household income, a residence in the peripheral housing development of Los Alamos increases commute times by 114 to 139 percent when compared with the informal community of Isidro Fabela in Mexico City. Informal workers spend 42 percent less time commuting than formal workers because they work in businesses within their local retail economy.
Current Urban Studies, 2020
Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened... more Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened in Quito in 2016 to tackle global urban challenges. With cities experiencing ever-increasing levels of poverty, inequality, and vulnerability to climate change, Habitat's New Urban Agenda outlines its priorities for sustainable urban development considering current urban realities. This paper aims to assess the changing dynamics that have paved the road towards Habitat III and to evaluate the ongoing prospects for its effective policy implementation by analyzing: 1) the changing development paradigms that have informed the three meetings, and 2) the nature, adequacy and influence of Habitat policy frameworks. Our analysis elucidates the weak commitment of nations at framing and implementing policies that help advance past Habitat's agendas. This leads us to conclude that local governments may be better suited to promote just and sustainable development. Promising policymaking may occur if governments can intersect the principles of the New Urban Agenda with other global agendas, including the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, it is relatively clear four years after Habitat III, that local commitment to these principles is not uniform either and that only certain world regions are actively participating in their implementation.
4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to licen... more 4. Title and Subtitle Who drives, where, and when? An evaluation of behavioral responses to license-plated based driving restrictions 5. Report Date
Sustainability
Given the implications of energy use in housing units for global warming, life cycle assessment (... more Given the implications of energy use in housing units for global warming, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although informal settlements, currently known as colonias populares, or barrios, house most of the urban population in Latin America, there is a poor understanding of how people in these communities use energy and contribute to GHG emissions. This investigation provides a comprehensive analysis of resource consumption in Mexico City’s colonia popular, including self-help housing, household energy consumption, and transportation. As there is no spatially specific data on energy use, the author conducted field research in the informal community of Isidro Fabela, founded in the 1960s. Isidro Fabela is an illuminating community that helps understand the energy use of informal settlements at advanced stages of urban consolidation. A mixed-method research approach served to collect empirical data through observations, household sur...
Planning Practice and Research, 2019
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate do... more This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ scholarly identities and demystified the publication process. However, efforts should be made to maintain the practice of writing, sharing, and reviewing and the course should more explicitly foster critical reflections on the relationship between writing, scholarly identity, and knowledge production.