Steven Richter

About Steven Richter

Dr. Richter’s work encompasses many aspects of human-environmental systems, with a particular focus on metropolitan growth in the United States. This includes planning and policy related to growth management, urban peripheries, disaster resilience, and urban ecology. Methods include GIS, mixed methods, and urban analytics.

Selected Publications

• Saud, R., & Richter, S. M. (2026). LiDAR-based shade mapping: Decomposition and multi-resolution analysis in a 3D digital twin. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 41, 101918.
• Richter, S. M., & Saud, R. (2025). Social-ecological gradients and city-regional geospatial structure across the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 263, 105441.
• Richter, S.M., Petersen-Perlman, J., & Lieberknecht, K. (2024). Muddling from the Middle Out: Multi-Scalar Governance for Place-based and Adaptive Sustainability in Texas. Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development.
• Felkner, J., Nagy, Z., Beck, A. L., Reeves, D. C., Richter, S., Shastry, V., Ramthun, E., Mbata, E., Zigmund, S., Marshall, B., Marks, L., Rueda, V., Triplett, J., Domedead, S., Vazquez-Canteli, J., & Rai, V. (2024). IMPACT pathways – a bottom-up modelling framework to guide sustainable growth and avoid carbon lock-in of cities. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 0(0), 1–18.
• Richter, S.M. and Bixler, R. P. (2022). Complexifying urban expansion: an exploratory, gradient-based approach. Buildings and Cities, 3 (1).
• Richter, S. M. (2021). Measurement and Meaning: Critical Reflection on the Maturation and Potential of National Urban Land Studies in the United States: Journal of Planning Literature.
• Richter, S. M. (2020). Revisiting urban expansion in the continental United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 204, 103911.

Recent Courses Taught

• Environmental Planning
• Growth Management
• Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
• Coastal Planning and Policy
• Ecological Planning
• Water Resources Planning
• Urban Sustainability