Papers Submitted to Refereed Journals

Williams, Sarah, Adam White, Peter Waiganjo, Daniel Orwa, Jacqueline Klopp, “The Digital Matatu Project: Using Cell Phones to Create an Open Source Data for Nairobi's Semi-Formal Bus System”, Journal of Transportation Geography, submitted October 2014

Papers in Refereed Journals:

Williams, Sarah, “ Digital Matatus: Using mobile technology to visualize informality” Proceedings ACSA 103rd Annual Meeting: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, 2015 

Williams, Sarah, “More Than Data: Working with Big Data for Civics” I/S: A journal of Law and Policy for the information Society, Forthcoming 2015

Williams, Sarah, Erica Deahl, Laurie Rubel, Vivian Lim, "City Digits: Developing Socially-Grounded Data Literacy Using Digital Tools" Journal of Digital Media Literacy, Forthcoming December 2014 

Williams, Sarah, and Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. "Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City." PloS one 9.2 (2014): e86165.

Williams, Sarah, Elizabeth Marcello, and Jacqueline M. Klopp. "Toward Open Source Kenya: Creating and Sharing a GIS Database of Nairobi." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104.1 (2014): 114-130.

Williams, Sarah and Elizabeth Currid - Halkett, “The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Fashion Hub: A Comparative Analysis of New York and Los Angeles Fashion Industry”, Urban Studies Volume 48 Issue 14, November 2011.

Currid, Elizabeth and Sarah Williams, “Two Cities, Five Industries: Similarities and Differences Within and Between Cultural Industries in New York and Los Angeles”, Journal of Planning Education and Research (March 2010) vol. 29 no. 3 322-335.

Currid, Elizabeth and Sarah Williams, “The Geography of Buzz: art, culture and the social milleu in Los Angeles and New York”, Journal of Economic Geography, (July, 2009) pg 1-29.

Ratti, Carlo, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Sarah Williams, Dennis Frenchman,  “Mobile Landscapes: using location data from cell-phones for urban analysis.”Environment and Planning B Vol. 33 (2006) pages 7-27-748, x

Branschofsky, Margret, Rebecca Lubas, MacKenzie Smith, and Sarah Williams. "Evolving metadata needs for an institutional repository: MIT's DSpace." In International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, pp. pp-237. 2003.

Refereed Book Chapters:

Lim, V., Deahl, E., Rubel, L., Williams, S. (in press, 2014). Local Lotto: Mathematics and mobile technology to study the lottery. In Polly, D. (Ed.), Cases on Technology Integration in Mathematics Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Book Chapters:

Williams, Sarah " The Responsive City : The City of the Future Re-Imagined from the Bottom-Up" in  Emerging Urbanism, Edited by Tigran Hass, Ashgate Publishers, England [2014]

Williams, Sarah, "Beijing Air Tracks:Tracking Data for Good" in Accountability Technologies Tools for Asking Hard Questions, Edited by Dietmar Offenhuber, Katja Schechtner, AMBRA, Vienna, Austria [2013]

Williams, Sarah, “Here Now ! Social Media and the Psychological City”, Map in: Atlas of Design, Edited by Tim Wallace and Daniel Huffman, North American Cartographic Information Society, [2012]

Williams, Sarah, “Here Now ! Social Media and the Psychological City”, Essay in: Inscribing a Square - Urban Data as Public Space, Edited by Katja Schechtner and Dietmar Offenhuber, Springer, [2012]

Other Publications:

Williams, Sarah “Digital Matatus: Formalizing the Informal”, in Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary coedited by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim, Forthcoming 2015 

White, Jeremey, Hannah Fairfield, Sarah Williams And Georgia Bullen, “The New Olympic Stars (of Twitter)”, New York Times, August 13, 2012

Williams, Sarah, Archie Tse, “Pollution along the Olympic Marathon Route – Beijing 2008” – New York Times, August 18, 2008

Williams, Sarah, Siemond Chan, Brian Horton “Measuring Pollution – Beijing Olympics – Associated Press, August, 2008

Williams, Sarah, “New York City Department of Sanitation, 311 Complaint Spatial Analysis Assessment” Report Provided to New York City’s Department of Sanitation, [November 2007] 

Venkatesh, Sudhir, Sarah Williams, Eva Rosen, “The Socio-Spatial Consequences of Inmate Release New York City”  Report  Open Society Institute – [2007]

Williams, Sarah, Kate Orff, Hui Tse, “Envisioning Gateway: A Study of Gateway National Recreation Area”, NPCA Research Report   [2007]

Kurgan, Laura, Sarah Williams, Eric Cadora, David Reinfurt “The Socio-Spatial Consequences of Inmate Release In New York City” Open Society Institute Research Note [2007]

Kurgan, Laura, Sarah Williams, Eric Cadora, David Reinfurt, The Crime in Criminal Data: Columbia University’s Spatial information Design Lab Visualizes Justice” Architecture, pg 52-53. [November 2006]

Kurgan, Laura, Sarah Williams, Eric Cadora, David Reinfurt, “Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks: A Project for Visual Communications” Journal of Visual Communications pg. 241-244, Volume 5, Issue 2, [2006]

Kurgan, Laura, Sarah Williams, Eric Cadora, David Reinfurt, “Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks” Volume /Archis vol. 20 # 4 [November, 2005]

Williams, Sarah, Understanding urban assets: using remote sensing to manage stormwater run-off, [M.I.T Master’s Thesis, MCP, 2005]

Williams, Sarah, Roger Torino, James Shen, “City on the Rail: MIT-Tsinghua Urban Design Studio”, World Architecture, [March, 2005]