Craig Olwert

About Craig Olwert

Craig Olwert joined the department in 2011 and has been the undergraduate advisor since Spring 2013. His research interests includes modeling city form, cycling transit users, and retail uses around mass transit. Current research includes resilience plans for cities and Airbnb effects on housing prices.

Areas of Expertise

Technology, Society and Analytical Methods, Economic Development, Environmental Planning and Resource Management

Selected Publications

Olwert, C. T., Toker, Z., Minassians, H. P. (2023). Best practices from 28 planning program-community partnership projects. In M. E. Heim LaFrombois and J. MIttal (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of University-Community Partnerships in Planning Education. (pp. 131-148). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., Olwert, C. T., Wang, C. H., Arellano, V., & Oulrey, D. (2023). Retailer behavior near fixed transit lines in Los Angeles: A spatial autoregressive probit model to evaluate retail clustering. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 43:4, 799-814. , Wang, C. H., Chen, N., Olwert, C. (2023). Investigating accessibility resilience of emergency and lifesaving facilities under natural hazards. Natural Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06272-8., Olwert, C., Tchopourian, J., Arellano, V., Woldeamanuel, M. (2015). Stranding cycling transit users on Los Angeles’ Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit. Journal of Public Transportation,18(1), 4.

Recent Courses Taught

URBS 340A: Quantitative Research Methods., URBS 615: Analytical Principles and Practices in Urban Planning, URBS 680: Quantitative Analysis in Urban Planning, URBS 698: Professional Project