Drawing on the methods of the spatial-quantitative research, he demonstrated the significance of where people live and their connections over space for how they vote.
This in turn led to an interest in a newly emerging field of behavioral geography.
Most of his later work has been focused on urban studies, inspired by various forms of political economy, particularly from welfare geography.
One of his contributions was work on resident organizations, establishing their raison d'être and situating them historically.
[2] A review of his book, Boomtown Columbus, was published in Cleveland Review of Books, where it was praised as adeptly explaining how "developers and their friends in local government pursued postindustrial urbanism to the detriment of the working poor.