Elijah Knaap
Associate Director & Senior Research Scientist
San Diego State University
Eli Knaap is a Senior Research Scientist and the Associate Director of COGS. His research examines the relationship between urban spatial structure and social inequality with a focus on neighborhood contexts, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Urban Institute, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Dr. Knaap’s work has been used to support regional
Fair Housing Policy,
sustainability planning,
and equitable public transit. He
is the lead developer and maintainer of geosnap, the
geospatial neighborhood analysis package, and a core developer for PySAL, and
QuantEcon. He is also an affiliate with the National Center for Smart
Growth Research and Education (NCSG).
- urban inequality
- spatial data science
- regional science
- neighborhood dynamics
- housing markets
- housing & land policy
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Ph.D in Urban and Regional Planning and Design, 2016
University of Maryland
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M.A. in Community Planning, 2013
University of Maryland
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B.A. in Sociology, 2011
University of Maryland