I study the relations between market processes and state policy in producing and reinforcing urban social inequalities.

My approach blends elements of critical social theory, legal and policy analysis, and multivariate quantitative methods designed to engage state and corporate institutions on their own terrain, with their own data.

Current and recent research projects focus on class, racial, and gender discrimination in housing finance in the U.S. urban system; the transformation and financialization of implicit and explicit housing subsidies; the role of transnational financial circuits in the reconfiguration of segregation, displacement, and gentrification; historical and contemporary conflicts between positivist and nonpositivist modes of geographical knowledge production; the quantitative algorithmic evolution of competitive dynamics among and within educational institutions; housing affordability and the evolution of suburban development in Canadian and U.S. cities; the implications of mass social networking for urban and geographical theory; and the cybernetic political epistemologies of resurgent White nationalist racism in Trump’s America.

2024

Wyly, E. 2024. The Death and Life of Great Visual Urbanism. Visual Studies 39 (1-2): 205-210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2292436

2023

Wyly, E. and D. Wilson. 2023. Metaphor, Materialism, Metropolis. Dialogues in Urban Research 1 (3): 300-314. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231204347

Quinton, J. Nesbitt, L. Connolly, J. T. and E. Wyly. 2023. How Common is Greening in Gentrifying Areas? Urban Geography: 1-23. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2258687.

2022

Wyly, E. 2022. Response to Commentaries: Contrapuntal Gentrifications. Dialogues in Urban Research. doi: 10.1177/27541258231156802.

Wilson, D. and E. Wyly. 2022. Toward a Dracula Urbanism: Smart City Building in Flint and Jakarta. Dialogues in Urban Research. doi: 10.1177/27541258221134500.

Wyly, E. 2022. The Moral Rent Gap: Views from an Edge of an Urban World. Dialogues in Urban Research 1: 1-23. doi: 10.1177/27541258221130327.

Wyly, E. 2022. Racial Evolution of an Urban Planet: Scenes from the North American Frontier. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 4. doi: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frsc.2022.835797

2021

Wyly, E. 2021. The Evolution of Geographic Thought. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 112(5): 491-525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12492

Wyly, E. 2021. YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46(2): 319-330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13067

Wyly, E. 2021. Build Back Boldly. Housing Policy Debate 31(6): 1058-1060. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2021.1909241

Wyly, E. 2021. Conversational Urbanism. Urban Geography 42(10): 1397-1401. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2021.1909241

2020

Ward, K., Cooke, T. J., Shearmur, R., Wyly, E. K., Hanson, S., Lake, R. and S. J. Adams. 2020. 40 years of the journal Urban Geography. Urban Geography 41(3): 355-367. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1723368

Gerhard, U., Kobayashi, A. Wyly, E. Sternberg, C. G Jonas, A. E. and D. Wilson. 2020.  Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine & Blues Clubs. The AAG Review of Books 8 (2): 122-134. doi: 10.1080/2325548X.2020.1722501.

Immergluck, D., Kinder, K. Wyly, E. and J. Hackworth. 2020. Review Symposium:  Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt. Urban Geography 41(4): 625-632.

2019

Wyly, E. K. 2019. Geography’s Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press.

Wyly, E. K. 2019. The Evolving State of Gentrification. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 110 (1): 12–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12333