Laura Schmahmann
laura.schmahmann at tamu.edu
Assistant Professor
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Texas A&M University
United States
Publications
Peer-reviewed Schmahmann, L. (2026). Core-periphery relations: spatial patterns of e-commerce in the San Francisco Bay Area. Urban Geography.
Schmahmann, L. (2025). City Competition for E-Commerce Sales Tax Revenue: Qualitative Evidence on the Politics of Land Fiscalization in California. Economic Development Quarterly, 39(3), 167-181.
Schmahmann, L., Ramiller, A., & Fields, D. (2024). Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008-2020. Annals of the American Association of Geographers , 114(1), 139-163.
Leong, M., Huang, D., Moore, H., Chapple, K., Schmahmann, L., Wang, J., & Allavarpu, N. (2023). Can we save the downtown? Examining pandemic recovery trajectories across 62 North American cities. Cities , 143.
Chapple, K., & Schmahmann, L.. (2023). Can we “Claim” the Workforce? A Labor-Focused Agenda for Economic Development in the Face of an Uncertain Future. Economic Development Quarterly, 37(1), 14-19.
Schmahmann, L., Poorthuis, A., & Chapple, K. (2023). Pandemic polycentricity? Mobility and migration patterns across New York over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 15(3), 515-535.
Chapple, K., & Schmahmann, L. (2026). Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?: Adaptation in Regional Industrial Land Preservation.. In C. Grodach & J. Ferm (Eds.), Planning the Productive City: Rethinking Urban Industrial Spaces (pp. 15–27). Routledge.
Schmahmann, L. (2026). What Does the Growth of E-Commerce Mean for the Future of Industrial Lands?. In C. Grodach & J. Ferm (Eds.), Planning the Productive City: Rethinking Urban Industrial Spaces (pp. 119–129). Routledge.
Spiller, M., & Schmahmann, L. (2018). Economic competitiveness and productivity. In R. Tomlinson & M. Spiller (Eds.), Australia’s Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform (pp. 143–158). CSIRO Publishing.