{"id":9794,"date":"2026-09-14T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/?page_id=9794"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:46:17","slug":"springer-award-past-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/springer-award-past-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Previous Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Winners of the\u00a0Stough-Johansson Springer Award<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2025:&nbsp;<\/strong>Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) for her&nbsp;paper&nbsp;with Steven G. Craig&nbsp;<em> \u201cIs the Inner City Boom Over?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong> Daria Denti (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) &amp; Marco Di Cataldo (Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice, Italy),&nbsp;for their paper&nbsp;<em>\u201cEqual Justice Under Law? Local Justice Quality and Crimes\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023:<\/strong> Justin Tyndall (University of Hawaii at Manoa) &amp; Cody Nehiba (Louisiana State University), for their paper <em>&#8220;Highways and Pedestrian Deaths in US Neighborhoods&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/stough-johansson-springer-prize-goes-to-nicholas-irwin-david-wolf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Nicholas Irwin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) &amp;&nbsp;David Wolf (Kobe University, Japan) for their paper <em>&#8220;Is it really bridging the gap? Fiber internet`s impact on housing values and homebuyer demographics&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021:&nbsp;<\/strong> Gloria Cicerone (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L\u2019Aquila, Italy) for her paper<em> &#8220;Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: Does the digital transformation meet the green transition?&#8221;<\/em> (co-authored with Alessandra Faggian, Sandro Montresor &amp; Francesco Rentocchini)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020:<\/strong> Geoff Boeing (University of Southern California (USC)) for his paper <em>\u201cOff the Grid&#8230; and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019:<\/strong> Dr. Sutee Anantsuksomsri co-authored with Dr. Nik Tontisirin (Chulalongkorn Univeristy, Thailand) for \u201cLand Value Capture as a Funding Source for Public Transport: a case study of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018:<\/strong> Dr. Yoojin Yi (Seoul National University, South Korea) for \u201cFirm relocation and age-dependent reliance on agglomeration externalities\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017:<\/strong> Dr. Juan Carlos Lopez (University of Denver) for \u201cCultural Workers and the Character of Cities\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016: <\/strong>Dr. Karl Geisler (University of New Mexico) for \u201cTourism, Las Vegas, and The Hangover: Quantifying a Major Motion Picture\u2019s Impacts on Visitor Volume\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015: <\/strong>Dr. Keisuke Kondo (Research Institute for Economy, Trade, and Industry, Japan) for \u201cDisentangling the Channels of Agglomeration Impacts on Individual Wages: The Case of the Mexican Banking Sector\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014:<\/strong> Dr. Pengyu Zhu (Boise State University) for \u201cResidential Segregation and Employment Outcomes of Rural Migrant Workers in China: Addressing Self-Selection Bias with Attitude Information\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012:<\/strong> Dr. Andrew Cassey, co-authored with Katherine Schmeiser (Washington State University) for \u201cThe Agglomeration of Exporters by Destination\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011: <\/strong>Dr. Ralph McLaughlin (University of South Australia, Adelaide) for \u201cMetropolitan growth policies and new housing supply: Evidence from Australia\u2019s capital cities\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2010:<\/strong> Dr. Yiming Wang (University of Cardiff, Wales) for \u201cDecomposing the entropy index of racial diversity: In search of two types of variance\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009:<\/strong> Dr. Daisuke Nakamura (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for \u201cAgglomeration economies and two contrasting transportation costs: Complementary and substitution perspectives\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008: <\/strong>Dr. Jaewon Lim (University of Arizona) for \u201cDoes Wage Differential Driven Migration Continue to Exist? Tests on the Role of Regional Economic Structure in Wage Differential Driven Migration\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2007:<\/strong> Dr. Lena Birkel\u00f6f (Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden) for \u201cExploring Differences for the Functional Impaired: Neighborhood Interaction and the Federal Structure\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006:<\/strong> Dr. Sarah Low (Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City) for \u201cWhere Are the Entrepreneurs?&nbsp; Examining the Location of Proprietor Breadth and Depth\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005:<\/strong> Dr. Hoje Kang (Cleveland State University) for \u201cDetecting Agglomeration Processes in the Product Life Cycle and Sudden Changes Using Space-Time Clustering Analysis\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2004:<\/strong> Dr. Dao-Zhi Zeng (Kagawa University, Japan) for \u201cSpatial Economy with Multi-Manufacturing Industries\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2003:<\/strong> Dr. Adelheid Holl (University of Sheffield, England) for \u201cDeterminants of Spatial and Sectoral Variations in Firm Birth: Empirical Results for Portugal\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2000:<\/strong> Dr. Audrey Clarke (Western Oregon University) for \u201cThe Role of the Innovative Milieu in the Locational Concentration of Computer Services: A Pilot Study of the Portland Metropolitan Area\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1999: <\/strong>Dr. Stuart H. Sweeney (University of California, Santa Barbara) co-authored with Dr. Edward J. Feser for \u201cOut-migration, Depopulation, and Regional Economic Distress\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Winners Winners of the\u00a0Stough-Johansson Springer Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":9632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9794\/revisions\/9811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrsaonline.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}