About Austin Troy
Austin Troy, PhD is Professor at CU Denver’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning. His research addresses issues at the intersection of urban planning and environmental sustainability. He is also Co-Founder and Principal of Spatial Informatic Group, an environmental consulting company.
Areas of Expertise
Urban environmental planning, spatial analysis, urban ecologySelected Publications
Troy A., Taylor R., Follingstad G., Heris M.(2024). The Impact of Urban Tree Shade on Residential Irrigation Demand in a Semi-Arid Western U.S. City. Sustainable Cities and Society. 100:105026-. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.105026.
Lavelle-Sachs, A., Boag, A. and Troy, A. 2023. Valuing urban trees: A hedonic investigation into tree canopy influence on property values across environmental and social contexts in Baltimore. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 80: 127829
Bonnell, L., Troy, A., and Littenberg, B. 2022. Exploring nonlinear relationships between neighborhood walkability and health: a cross sectional study among US primary care patients with chronic conditions. BMJ Open. 12(8): e061086. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061086. PMID: 35985786
Troy, A., Moghaddas, J., Schmidt, D., Romsos, S., Sapsis, D., Brewer, W., and Moody, T. 2022. An Analysis of Factors Influencing Structure Loss Resulting from the 2018 Camp Fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 36(1): 586-598.
Heris, M., Bagstad, K. Troy, A., O’Neil-Dunne, J. 2022. Assessing the Accuracy and Potential for Improvement of the National Land Cover Database’s Tree Canopy Cover Dataset in Urban Areas of the Conterminous United States. Remote Sensing 14(5): 1219
Heris, M., M., Bagstad, K.J.., Rhodes, C., Troy, A., Middel, A., Hopkins, K., and Matuszak, J. 2021. Piloting urban ecosystem accounting for the United States. Ecosystem Services. 48:101226
Troy, A., Bonnell, L. and Littenberg, B. 2018. Relationship Between the Built Environment and Body Mass Index in a Rural Context: A Cross-Sectional Study from Vermont. Cureus, 10(7) :e3040. doi: 10.7759/cureus.3040.
Rosenlieb, E., McAndrews, C., Marshall, W., and Troy, A. 2018. Urban development patterns and exposure to hazardous and protective traffic environments. Journal of Transport Geography. 66: 125-1
Harvey, C., Aultman-Hall, L., Hurley, S. and Troy, A.. 2016. Streetscape skeleton measurement and classification. Environment and Planning B
Troy, A., A. Nunnery and Grove, J.M.. 2016. The relationship between residential yard management and neighborhood crime: An analysis from Baltimore City and County. Landscape and Urban Planning. 147: 78-87
Troy, A., Azaria, D., Voigt, B. and Sadek, A 2012. Integrating a traffic router and microsimulator into a land use and travel demand model. Transportation Planning and Technology. 35(8): 737-751
Troy, A., Grove, J.M. and O’Neil-Dunne, J.. 2012. The relationship between tree canopy and crime rates across an urban-rural gradient in the greater Baltimore region, Landscape and Urban Planning. 106: 262-270
Troy, A. 2012. The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities. New Haven: Yale University Press. 384 pp. Paperback edition released 2014
Recent Courses Taught
Advanced Geospatial Methods, Environmental Planning and Management
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