Urban Geography
Cinema originated in cities, which have played starring roles in movies ever since. Cinema came out of the early “modern” era when rapid urbanization coupled with rapid changes in industry, technology, architecture, and transportation were reconfiguring how humans understood space, mobility, visualization, and the body." (Lukinbeal and Sharp 2019, 2)
Redlining
Research findings show that in Redlined today versed in 1930 in Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles minorities have less exposure and more isolation from the majority population (Stermon and Lukinbeal 2021).
Case Study
Police & Resident Mental Maps Analysis
Publications
Stermon, Mallory and Chris Lukinbeal. 2021. Institutionalize Racism: Redlined District Then and Now in Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. APCG Yearbook.
Myint, Soe, Jyoti Jain, Chris Lukinbeal, Francisco Lara-Valencia. 2010. Simulating urban growth on the U.S.-Mexico border: Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 36(3): 166–184
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Christina Kennedy. Suburban Landscapes of the East Bay. 1992. California Geographer 32: 77-93.
Arreola, Daniel, D. Drew Lucio, Chris Lukinbeal, Gloria Cuadraz. 2008. Mexican Litchfield Park: A Forgotten Colonia of the Salt River Valley. Journal of Arizona History 49(4): 329-354.
Lopez, Natalie and Chris Lukinbeal. 2010. Comparing Police and Residential Perception of Crime using Mental Maps and Qualitative GIS. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 72: 33-55.
Lukinbeal, Chris, Daniel D. Arreola, and D. Drew Lucio. 2010. Mexican Urban Colonias in the Salt River Valley. Geographical Review 100(1): 12-34.
Lukinbeal, Chris, Patricia Price, Cayla Buell. 2012. Rethinking ‘Diversity’ Through Analyzing Residential Segregation among Hispanics in Phoenix, Miami and Chicago. Professional Geographer 64(1): 109-124.
Price, Patricia, Chris Lukinbeal, Richard Gioioso, Daniel D. Arreola, Damián Fernández, Timothy Ready, Maria de los Angeles Torres. 2011. Placing Latino Civic Engagement. Urban Geography 32: 179-207.
Smilovsky, Nik and Chris Lukinbeal. How Variables of Social Capital in Three Hispanic Neighborhoods Relate to an Individual’s Activity Space. Landscape Research Record 8: 271-283.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2017. City as Backlot: On Location in San Diego. In, Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. Eds. Karin Fast, Andre Jansson, Johan Lindell, Linda Ryan Bengtsson, and Mekonnen Tesfahuney. pp. 132-151. New York: Routledge.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2019. Imagined Cities (Cinema). In, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. pp. 1-4. New York: Wiley.
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Christina Kennedy. 1993. Dick Tracy's Cityscape. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 55: 76-96.
Aitken, Stuart, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1998. Of Heroes, Fools and Fisher Kings: Cinematic Representations of Street Myths and Hysterical Males in the Films of Terry Gilliam. Images of the Streets: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. pp. 141-159. Edited by Nick Fyfe. New York: Routledge.