Dillon Mahmoudi

I'm an Associate Professor in Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) working on urban geography, political economy, and socio-technical systems.

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Publications

Uneven development and the anti-politics machine: Algorithmic violence and market-based neighborhood rankings

Dillon Mahmoudi, Dena Aufseeser, Alicia Sabatino

Political Geography 2025

The urban, data, tech feedback loop: A surveillance and development data-walk in South Lake union

Dillon Mahmoudi, Anthony Levenda, Alicia Sabatino

Digital Geography and Society 2024

From FOSS to profit: Digital spatial technologies and the mode of production

Dillon Mahmoudi, Jim Thatcher, Laura Beltz Imaoka, David O'Sullivan

Digital Geography and Society 2024

Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD

Dena Aufseeser, Dillon Mahmoudi

Urban Geography 2024

The Ground Rent Machine: The Story of Race, Housing Inequality, and Dispossession in Baltimore, Maryland

Jason R. Jurjevich, Dillon Mahmoudi

Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2024

National Forgetting in the American South: White Innocence and the Racial Violence of Historic Places

Conley Kinkead, Daniel Campo, Dillon Mahmoudi

Sociální studia / Social Studies 2024

Assessing performance of ZCTA-level and Census Tract-level social and environmental risk factors in a model predicting hospital events.

Leigh G. Goetschius, Morgan Henderson, Fei Han, Dillon Mahmoudi, Chad Perman, H. Haft, I. Stockwell

Social Science & Medicine (1967) 2023

Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood

Dillon Mahmoudi, Alicia Sabatino

Dialogues in Human Geography 2022

Mapping Juvenile Justice: Identifying Existing Structural Barriers to Accessing Probation Services.

Mapping Juvenile Justice: Identifying Existing Structural Barriers to Accessing Probation Services.

Erika N. Fountain, Dillon Mahmoudi

American Journal of Community Psychology 2020

Political ecologies of platform urbanism

Dillon Mahmoudi, A. Levenda, John G. Stehlin

Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques

Will B. Payne, S. Knuth, Dillon Mahmoudi

Urban Geography 2020

Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon

Dillon Mahmoudi, Amy Lubitow, Mackenzie A. Christensen

Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest

A. Levenda, Dillon Mahmoudi

Matthew Wilson, New Lines

Dillon Mahmoudi

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 2018

Melody L. Hoffmann, Bike lanes are white lanes: bicycle advocacy and urban planning

Amy Lubitow, Dillon Mahmoudi

Revisiting critical GIS

Jim Thatcher, Luke Bergmann, Britta Ricker, R. Rose-Redwood, David O'Sullivan, T. Barnes, Luke Barnesmoore, Laura Beltz Imaoka, Ryan Burns, John M. Cinnamon, Craig M. Dalton, Clinton Davis, Stuart E. Dunn, F. Harvey, Jin-Kyu Jung, Ellen Kersten, Ladona Knigge, Nick Lally, Wen Lin, Dillon Mahmoudi, Michael Martin, Will B. Payne, Amir Sheikh, Taylor Shelton, E. Sheppard, Christian Strother, A. Tarr, Matthew W. Wilson, Jason C. Young

Socio-spatial differentiation in the Sustainable City: A mixed-methods assessment of residential gardens in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, USA

Socio-spatial differentiation in the Sustainable City: A mixed-methods assessment of residential gardens in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, USA

N. McClintock, Dillon Mahmoudi, Michael Simpson, Jacinto Pereira Santos

Beyond the Screen: Uneven Geographies, Digital Labour, and the City of Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism

Beyond the Screen: Uneven Geographies, Digital Labour, and the City of Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism

Dillon Mahmoudi, A. Levenda

Jane Jacobs and the Value of Older, Smaller Buildings

M. Powe, J. Mabry, E. Talen, Dillon Mahmoudi

Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data

Jim Thatcher, David O'Sullivan, Dillon Mahmoudi

The Neoliberal Politics of 'Smart': Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and the Enterprise Form

A. Levenda, Dillon Mahmoudi, G. Sussman

Citizen Participation, Open Innovation, and Crowdsourcing

E. Seltzer, Dillon Mahmoudi

Spatial Narratives in a Post-Truth World

Dillon Mahmoudi

Making Software, Making Regions: Labor Market Dualization, Segmentation, and Feminization in Austin, Portland and Seattle

Making Software, Making Regions: Labor Market Dualization, Segmentation, and Feminization in Austin, Portland and Seattle

Dillon Mahmoudi

Interview with Stephen Kafoury

Stephen Kafoury, Dillon Mahmoudi

Interview with Arthur Schlack

Arthur Schlack, Dillon Mahmoudi

Cultivating Portlandia: A Mixed-Method Study of Residential Urban Agriculture in Portland, Oregon

Cultivating Portlandia: A Mixed-Method Study of Residential Urban Agriculture in Portland, Oregon

N. McClintock, Michael Simpson, Dillon Mahmoudi, Jacinto Pereira Santos

Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty—not gentrification—is our biggest urban challenge.

Lost in Place: Why the persistence and spread of concentrated poverty—not gentrification—is our biggest urban challenge.

J. Cortright, Dillon Mahmoudi

Doing Critical GIS Dillon Mahmoudi

Dillon Mahmoudi, Taylor Shelton