Peer- Reviewed Journal Articles

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• Raj, S., Momoh, E. O., & Brinkley, C. (2025). Teaching Students How to Read and Assess Plan Content. Journal of Planning Education and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X25132759.
• Rodriguez, S.;  Kagawa, R.; Koundinya, V.; Choe, D.; Vaitla, B.; Volzer, A.; Brinkley, C. (2025). Guaranteed Income: A Policy Landscape Review of 105 Programs in the United States. Basic Income Studies. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2023-0030
• Fu, Xinyu; Sanchez, T. Chaosuli, Li; Brinkley, C. (2024). Text mining public feedback on urban densification plan change in Hamilton, New Zealand. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808324127209
• Poirier, L., Antonio, D.; Dettman, M., Eng, T.; Ganata, J.; Ghosh, S.; Lopez, M.; Karma, R.; Natekal, A.; Brinkley, C. (2024). Making plans findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable with data infrastructure: A search engine for constructing, analyzing, and visualizing planning documents. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/239980832412274
• Stein, A. and Brinkley, C. (2023). Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12489
• Brinkley, C. (2022) After Hardin  Brinkley, C. (2022). After Hardin. Planning Theory, 21(4), 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/14730952221121071  
• Brinkley, C. Wagner, J (2022) Who is Planning for Environmental Justice and How? Journal of the American Planning Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2022.2118155
• Darwalla, T.; Fuchs-Chesney, J. Raj, S. Brinkley, C. (2022) All Roads Lead to the Farmers Market?: Using Network Analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a Community Food System through a Case Comparison of Yolo and Sacramento County, California. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values
• Raj, S and Brinkley, C., Ulimwengu, J. (2022). Connected and extracted: Understanding how centrality in the global wheat supply chain affects global hunger using a network approach. PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269891
• McManamay, R. Turner, S. Vernon, C., Rice, J.; Raj, S and Brinkley, C. (2022). Urban land teleconnections in the United States: a graphical network approach. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101822
• Brinkley, C.; Raj, S; Raja, S (2022). Planning for FEWsheds: The Role of Planning in Integrating and Strengthening Food, Energy and Water Systems. Journal of Planning Literature. https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122221093387
• Brinkley, C. and Raj, S (2022). Perfusion and Urban Thickness: The shape of cities. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106015
• Raj, S; Roodbar, S. Brinkley, C. (2022) Food Security and Climate Change: Differences in impacts and adaptation strategies for rural communities in the Global South and North. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.  
• Brinkley, C. and Visser, MA (2022). Socioeconomic and Environmental Indicators for Rural Communities: Bridging the Scholarly and Practice Gap. Economic Development Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424221083023
• Brinkley, C. and Stahmer, C. (2021). What Is in a Plan? Using Natural Language Processing to Read 461 California City General Plans. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X21995890
• Brinkley, C., Manser, G. M., & Pesci, S. (2021). Growing pains in local food systems: a longitudinal social network analysis on local food marketing in Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-17. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-021-10199-w
• Pesci, S., & Brinkley, C. (2021). Can a Farm-to-Table restaurant bring about change in the food system?: A case study of Chez Panisse. Food, Culture & Society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1948754
• Han, A; Laurian, L; Brinkley, C. (2020) Thermal Planning: What Can Campuses Teach Us about Expanding District Energy? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1855577
• Francis, K., & Brinkley, C. (2020). Street Food Vending as a Public Health Intervention. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 18 (1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v18i1.2450
• Brinkley, C. (2019) Rugosity and the Urban Interface. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://10.1080/24694452.2019.1573133
• Brinkley, C., & Leach, A. (2019). Energy next door: a meta-analysis of energy infrastructure impact on housing value. Energy Research & Social Science, 50, 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.11.014
• Brinkley, C. (2019). Hardin’s imagined tragedy is pig shit: A call for planning to recenter the commons. Planning Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218820460
• Brinkley, C., Glennie, C., Chrisinger, B., & Flores, J. (2019). If you Build it with them, they will come: What makes a supermarket intervention successful in a food desert? Journal of Public Affairs https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1863
• Brinkley, C. (2018). The Small World of the Alternative Food Network. Sustainability, 10(8), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10082921
• Brinkley, C. (2018) High Rugosity Cities: the geographic, economic and regulatory pathology of America’s most non-concentric urban areas. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.024
• Brinkley, C., & Hoch, C. (2018). The Ebb and Flow of Planning Specializations. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X18774119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18774119
• Brinkley, C., Kingsley, J. S., & Mench, J. (2018). A Method for Guarding Animal Welfare and Public Health: Tracking the Rise of Backyard Poultry Ordinances. Journal of Community Health, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0462-0
• Brinkley, C. (2018). The conundrum of combustible clean energy: Sweden’s history of siting district heating smokestacks in residential areas. Energy Policy, 120, 526-532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.059
• Brinkley, C. (2017) Visualizing the social and geographical embeddedness of local food systems. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 314-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.023
• Brinkley, C. (2017). Fringe Benefits: Adding Rugosity to the Urban Interface in Theory and Practice. Journal of Planning Literature, 0885412217726772. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412217726772
• Brinkley, C.; Raj, S; Horst, M. (2017) Cultivating Food Deserts. Journal of Built Environment 43(3), 328-342. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.43.3.328 
  • Best Paper Prize
• Vaarst, M., Escudero, A. G., Chappell, M. J., Brinkley, C., Nijbroek, R., Arraes, N. A., … & Halberg, N. (2017). Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context.  Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321
• Brinkley, C. (2014). Decoupled: successful planning policies in countries that have reduced per capita greenhouse gas emissions with continued economic growth. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 32(6): 10831099. https://doi.org/10.1068/c12202
• Vitiello, D and Brinkley, C (2014). Hidden History of Food System Planning Journal of Planning History. 13(2): 91112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513213507541 
  • Honorable Mention for the Journal of Planning History Prize
• Brinkley, C and Vitiello, D (2014). From Farm to Nuisance: Animal Agriculture and the Rise of Planning Regulation, Journal of Planning History. 13(2): 113135. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513213507542
• Brinkley, C, Chrisinger, B, and Hillier, A. (2013). Tradition of Healthy Food Access in Low-income Neighborhoods: Price and Variety of Produce Vending Compared to Conventional Retail, Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development. 41(11): 155169. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2013.041.011
• Brinkley, C. (2013): Avenues into Food Planning: A Review of Scholarly Food System Research, International Planning Studies . 18(2): 243266. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2013.774150
• Brinkley, C., Birch, E., & Keating, A. (2013). Feeding cities: Charting a research and practice agenda toward food security. Journal of Agriculture, Planning, Food Systems and Community Development. 34(8): 8187. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2013.034.008
• Brinkley, C. (2012). Evaluating the Benefits of Peri-Urban Agriculture. Journal of Planning Literature . 27(3). 259269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412211435172
•  Brisson, D., Brinkley, C., Humphrey, P. T., Kemps, B. D., & Ostfeld, R. S. (2011) It takes a community to raise the prevalence of a zoonotic pathogen. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2011. 6p. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/741406
• Brinkley, C., Nolskog, P., Golovljova, I., Lundkvist, Å., & Bergström, T. (2008). Tick-borne encephalitis virus natural foci emerge in western Sweden. International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 298: 73-80.
• Brinkley, C. K., Kolodny, N. H., Kohler, S. J., Sandeman, D. C., & Beltz, B. S. (2005). Magnetic resonance imaging at 9.4 T as a tool for studying neural anatomy in non-vertebrates. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 146(1): 124-132.

Reports and Policy Briefs

• Brinkley, C, Choe, D. E., Kagawa, R., Ballonoff Suleiman, A., FiedMer, S., Castro, A. (2025) Yolo Basic Income Evaluation Final Report UC Davis, Center for Regional Change
• Visser, MA;  Brinkley, C; Zlotniki, J (2019). Delta Protection Commission, Rural Socioeconomic Indicators Report for the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta
• Tamimi, D; Brinkley, C; Perry, G.; Evans, A. (2019). Davis Food and Economic Development (FED) Report
• Horst, M; Raj, S.; Brinkley, C. (2016) Getting Outside the Supermarket Box: Alternatives to “Food Deserts” Progressive Planning (207).
• Brinkley, C and Leach, A. (2016). District Heating for California: A Path to Green Energy and Sustainable Forest Management,” UC Center Sacramento Policy Brief, 1(5): October 6th
• World Livestock 2012: Livestock in Food Security. (2011). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Book Chapters

• Brinkley, C and Glennie, C (2025). "Street Food Vending Justice." in Cultivating food justice. MIT press. Alkon, A. H., & Agyeman, J. (Eds.)
• Brinkley, C and Kingsley, S (2017). “Urban Animal Welfare in Backyard Livestock” in Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare. Ed. Joy Mench. (peer-reviewed book chapter).
• Horst, M; Brinkley, C; Martin, K. (2016). “SUB-Urban Agriculture Across the Country” in Cities of Farmers: Problems, Possibilities and Processes of Producing Food in Cities Eds. Julie Dawson and Alfonso Morales. Iowa Press. (peer-reviewed book chapter).