Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Domínguez-Barreto, A. P., Farah, I., López-Olmedo, N., Pérez-Ferrer, C., Ramírez, Y., Langellier, B. A., Colchero, M., Rivera, J. A., Barrientos-Gutierrez, T., Stern, D. (2025) Changes in the healthfulness of food and beverage purchases from 2006 to 2022 by outlet type in Mexico. BMC Medicine.

• Ju, Y., Dronova, I., Rodríguez, D., Bakhtsiyarava, M., and Farah, I. (2023). Recent greening may curb urban warming in Latin American cities of better economic conditions. Landscape and Urban Planning.

• Domínguez‑Barreto, A.P., Farah I., López‑Olmedo, N., Pérez‑Ferrer, C., Ramírez, Y., Barrientos‑Gutierrez, T, and Stern, D. (2023) Trends in food and beverage purchases in informal and formal outlets in Mexico: ENIGH 1994‑2020. Frontiers.

• Farah, I., Stern, D., Ramírez, Y., López‑Olmedo, N., Pérez‑Ferrer, C., Langellier, B.A., Colchero, M.A, and Barrientos‑Gutierrez, T. (2022) Food and beverage purchases at formal and informal outlets in Mexico. Public Health Nutrition.

Book Chapters

• Hayden, T. B., Farah I. (2025) “Urban Governance and the Regulation of Street Food Vending In Latin America.” In: Urban Food Systems in Latin America: Territories, Mobilities and Governance. Ed. by Tiana Bakić Hayden and Joaquín Pérez Martín. London: Routledge.

• Anselin, L, Farah I. (2023) ”The life and death of retail: insights from firm demography.” In Streetlife: The Future of Urban Retail. Eds. Talen, E and Kickert, C. University of Toronto Press.

• Credit K., Farah I., y Anselin, L. (2023) ”The Ups and Downs of Retail, 2000 – 2015.” In Streetlife: The Future of Urban Retail. Eds. Talen, E and Kickert, C. University of Toronto Press.

Book Reviews and Miscellanea

• Farah I. (2021) Book Review: ”Alisha C. Holland, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America.” Urban Studies.

• Farah I., Koschinsky, J., y Noel, L. (July 30, 2019) Computing Travel Times and Spatial Access Metrics at Scale. Link: Documentation for Python package: spatial_access 1.0.0

• Anselin, L, Farah, I. (2018). Methodological issues in the analysis of local patterns in the retail sector. (Center for Spatial Data Science Working Paper). University of Chicago.

Under Revision and In Preparation

• Farah, I., Governing the Governable: The Implementation of San Francisco’s Street Vending Policy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

• Farah, I., Devlin, R.T., Hartmann, C., Harvey, J., and Hegel, C. “The Governance of Informal Street Work in San Francisco and New York City.” Nature Cities.

• Farah, I., Kelling, C., Leng, X., Zhao, Y. “Building a Longitudinal Geospatial Dataset of Micro-businesses in Mexico City.” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

• Farah, I. Reading the Street: A Methodological Approach for Urban Governance Research.” Journal of Planning Education and Research.

• Credit, K., Farah, I., Talen, E, Anselin, L, and Ghomrawi, H. The Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS): A spatially-granular open-source measure of walkability for the continental US from 1997-2019. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

• Farah I. ”The Informal Economy and Urban Design.” In The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice. Eds. Larice, M., O’Neill Robinson, M., and Penniman, A. Routledge, In Review.

• Farah I. ”La coexistencia de la planeación urbana con el comercio popular en la Ciudad de México.” In La Nueva Gobernanza Urbana. Eds. Keoseyan, S. Bonilla Rius, In Review.

• Farah, I. Beyond Clientelism: Brokerage and Street Vendors’ Bodies as a Political Weapon in Mexico City.

• Farah, I. Variation of Brokers’ Bargaining Power in Space: The Governance of Mexico City’s Tianguis.