E. Eric Boschmann (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2008), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment, at the University of Denver.

Research Interests

• The intersections of urban, economic, and urban transportation geographies

• Job accessibility and aging and mobility in metropolitan areas

• Social dimensions of urban sustainability

• Mixed-methods research, including: statistics, GIS, sketch-mapping, qualitative data collection and analysis

• Denver, Colorado and urban place

Potential Graduate Students: I am specifically interested in graduate students who wish to focus their research work in the following topical areas: aging and mobility (older adults), job/employment accessibility, or travel behaviors in sustainable mobility.  Please feel free to contact me in advance of graduate application deadlines.

Courses Taught

• FSEM 1111: Geographies of Metropolitan Denver (Syllabus)
• GEOG 1410: People Places and Landscapes: Introduction to Human Geography (Syllabus) hereformerly SOCS 1410: Foundations in Geography
• GEOG 2000: Geographic Statistics (Syllabus)
• GEOG 2410: Economic Geography (Syllabus)
• GEOG 3400: Urban Landscapes (Syllabus)
• GEOG 3410: Urban Applications of GIS(Syllabus)
• GEOG 3425: Urban Sustainability (Syllabus)
• GEOG 3940: Urban Geography Seminar:

                              "Global perspectives on urban social justice and comparative urbanism" (Spring 2013; Syllabus)

                       "Exploring the intersections of cities and urbanization, global climate change, and social inequalities" (Spring 2015)

                        Interterm: Urban Geographies of New York City (Syllabus)

• GEOG 200: World Regional Geography (at Ohio State Univ.)

Publications

• Jessica Villena-Sanchez,  E. Eric Boschmann, and Sara Avila-Forcada. 2022.  Daily travel behaviors and transport mode choice of older adults in Mexico City. Journal of Transport Geography, 104: 103445.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103445 
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• Joe Chestnut and E. Eric Boschmann. 2022. Exploring the Utility of Gini Coefficients as a Measure of Temporal Variation in Public Transit Travel Time. Papers in Applied Geography, 8(1):112-123.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23754931.2021.1964582 

• Jessica Villena-Sanchez and E. Eric Boschmann. 2022. A scoping review of the daily mobilities of older adults in the Global South. The Canadian Geographer, 66(1): 119-131.   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cag.12736 

• E. Eric Boschmann. 2020. Historic Evolution and Neoliberal Urbanism in Asunción. Journal of Latin American Geography 19(4):140-169. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772605 

• E. Eric Boschmann. 2020. Daily Urban Trip Mobility and Perceptions of Mobility Among Older Adults in the Denver (USA) Region. The Journal of Aging and Social Change 10(2): 33-52. open access: https://doi.org/10.18848/2576-5310/CGP/v10i02/33-52

• Ryan Keeney and E. Eric Boschmann. 2020. Denver’s Historic Streetcar Network and its Legacy of Walkable Neighborhood Commercial Corridors. In Michael J. Keables (editor), The Rocky Mountain West: A Compendium of Geographic Perspectives (pp. 189-195). Washington DC: American Association of Geographers.  Available here.

 

• E. Eric Boschmann and Andrew Goetz. 2020. Metropolitan Denver: From ‘Queen City of the Plains’ to ‘Mile High City’. In Michael J. Keables (editor), The Rocky Mountain West: A Compendium of Geographic Perspectives (pp. 166-171). Washington DC: American Association of Geographers.  Available here.

• Gregory Chase, Emily Skop, and E. Eric Boschmann. 2020. Obtaining and Retaining Hispanic Migrant Labor in the 1920’s Sugar Beet Landscapes of Colorado. In Michael J. Keables (editor), The Rocky Mountain West: A Compendium of Geographic Perspectives (pp. 58-64). Washington DC: American Association of Geographers.  Available here.

• Andrew R. Goetz and E. Eric Boschmann. 2018. Metropolitan Denver: Growth and Change in the Mile High City. University of Penn Press. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15852.html 

• Michael A. Niedzielski, Morton O’Kelly ,and E. Eric Boschmann. 2015. Synthesizing spatial interaction data for social science research: Validation and an investigation of spatial mismatch in Wichita, Kansas. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 54:204-218.

• Gregory J. Kwoka, E. Eric Boschmann, and Andrew R. Goetz. 2015. The impact of transit station areas on the travel behaviors of workers in Denver, Colorado. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 80: 277-287

• Michael A. Niedzielski and E. Eric Boschmann. 2014. Travel time and distance as relative accessibility in the journey to work.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104(6):1156-1182.

• E. Eric Boschmann and Emily Cubbon. 2014. Sketch maps and qualitative GIS: Using cartographies of individual spatial narratives in geographic research. The Professional Geographer 66(2): 236-248.

• E. Eric Boschmann and Sylvia A. Brady. 2013. Travel behaviors, sustainable mobility, and transit-oriented developments: A travel counts analysis of older adults in the Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area. Journal of Transport Geography 33:1-11.

• E. Eric Boschmann and Jessica N. Gabriel. 2013. Urban Sustainability and the LEED rating system: Case studies on the role of regional characteristics and adaptive reuse in green building in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Geographical Journal 179(3):221-233.

• E. Eric Boschmann. 2011. Job access, location decision, and the working poor: A qualitative study in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. Geoforum 42(6):671-682.

 

• E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan. 2010. Metropolitan area job accessibility and the working poor: Exploring local spatial variations of geographic context. Urban Geography 31(4): 498-522.

 

• E. Eric Boschmann and Mei-Po Kwan. 2008. Towards socially sustainable urban transportation: Progress and potentials. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2(3): 138-157.

Contact Information:

        University of Denver

        Department of Geography and the Environment

        2050 E. Iliff Ave.

        Denver, CO 80208-0710                 

        tel. 3 zero 3.871.4387

        e-mail. eric.boschmann (at) du.edu

Various links:

• "Geographers’ New Book Charts Denver’s Emergence as a ‘Next Frontier’ City" University of Denver Magazine, by Tamara Chapman

• "No escape? No Exit? Time for some desert reading!" University of Denver Magazine, by Tamara Chapman

• The MSGIS capstone project of Ryan Keeney (Interactive Map: Denver's Streetcar Legacy) was profiled on several local media sites:
  • University of Denver Newsroom
  • 9NEWS (NBC Denver)
  • Westword
  • Nextcity
  • Denver Urbanism

• Faculty and students in geography department study transit-oriented development, DU Magazine, March 2016.

• What's More Important to Non-Car Commuters: Living or Working Near Transit? by Eric Jaffe, CityLab.com, Sept. 16, 2015

• Latin America sabbatical images, 2014.

• Students in GEOG 3410 created a storymap about Denver's Globeville neighborhood, and the impacts on highway development, Spring 2012.

• Degree Confluence Project, July 2011. A visit to the 22º South, 60º West confluence point in The Chaco of western Paraguay. http://confluence.org/confluence.php?id=10686  

National Western Stock Show  opening Parade, downtown Denver. (Photo: E. Eric Boschmann)