laura.schmahmann at tamu.edu

Assistant Professor
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Texas A&M University
United States

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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.

Book chapters

• Schmahmann, L. (forthcoming - June 2026). What does the growth of e-commerce mean for industrial lands?. In C. Grodach & J. Ferm, Planning the Productive City. Routledge.
• Chapple, K., & Schmahmann, L. (forthcoming - June 2026). Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? Policy Learning in Industrial Land Preservation. In C. Grodach & J. Ferm, Planning the Productive City. Routledge.
• Spiller, M., & Schmahmann, L. (2018). Economic competitiveness and productivity. In R. Tomlinson & M. Spiller, Australia’s Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform. 143–158. CSIRO Publishing