Donald Buckwalter
Donald W. Buckwalter (Ph.D. Tennessee 1988) is an economic geographer with specializations in land use and transportation. He teaches URBNST 0340 Urban Mobility and Transportation Analysis each spring semester. He is also a researcher in the Urban and Regional Analysis Program. Research interests include the transportation/land use interface and particularly the development of polycentric urban spatial structure. Related publications appear in Eurasian Geography and Economics, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Urban Affairs, Pennsylvania Geographer, Professional Geographer, and Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.
Education & Training
- 1988: Ph.D., Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dissertation: Geographical Changes in the Retail Structure of Medium-Sized Metropolitan Areas, 1958-1982.
- 1981: M.A., Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Thesis: The Spatial Extent of Cities: Methods of Separating Urban and Rural Land and their Effects on Urban Population Densities in Lincoln, Nebraska and Lubbock, Texas.
- 1973: B.A., Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Representative Publications
Buckwalter, Donald W. 2023. A Transportation Analysis Exercise in Mode Split Estimation. The Pennsylvania Geographer, Pedagogy Section, 61/1: 35-45.
Buckwalter, Donald, W. 2021. Changing Employment Subcenters and Opportunity in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. Journal of Urban Affairs, online 17 September 2021, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2021.1933506.
Buckwalter, Donald, W. 2019. Intra-Metropolitan Employment Distribution in a No-Growth Scenario: Pittsburgh 2002-2012. Middle States Geographer 72: 48-59.
Buckwalter, Donald, W. 2017. Modal Choice in the Pittsburgh MSA: An Exploratory Data Analysis. The Professional Geographer 69/1: 94-106. Published online 01 July 2016.
Buckwalter, Donald, W. 2013. Road-Building and Network Efficiency in Poly-Centric Pittsburgh 1980-2010. Applied Geography 41: 158-167.