Publications

See CV for exhaustive list.

Books

Rey, Sergio and Rachel S. Franklin, editors. (2022). Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences, Elgar.

Franklin, Rachel S., editor. (2019). Population, Place, and Spatial Interaction: Essays in Honor of David Plane. Springer.

Franklin, Rachel S., Eveline S. van Leeuwen, and Antonio Paez, editors. (2018). Population Loss: The Role of Transportation and Other Issues. Elsevier.

Ballas, Dimitris, Graham Clarke, Rachel S. Franklin, and Andy Newing. (2017). GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge.

Selected Recent Publications

Testori, Giulia, Rachel Franklin, Pier Saraceno, Martina Pertoldi, Daniel Perea Milla Fernandez, Martijn Stut, and Lewis Dijkstra. (2026). “Territories and demographic change - Regional patterns and policy approaches,” Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, JRC143332

Franklin, Rachel, Devika Jain, and Zifu Wang. (2026). “Old, new, borrowed and BLUE: the twenty-first century spatial economic analysis toolkit,” Spatial Economic Analysis

Franklin, Rachel. (2025). “All Theories Are Wrong but Some Are Useful,” Dialogues in Human Geography

Le Petit-Guerin, Mehdi, Sanne Velthuis, Jeroen Royer, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, and Andy Pike. (2025). “Trajectories of regional ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15 from 1982 to 2017,” Advances in Economic Geography (ZFW)

Velthuis, Sanne, Jeroen Royer, Mehdi Le Petit-Guerin, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, Andy Pike. (2024). “Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15,” Regional Studies

Zied Abozied, Eman, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Kate Court, and Jack Roberts. (2024). “A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city,” The Geographical Journal

Houlden, Victoria, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Francisco Rowe, and Andy Pike. (2024). “Left Behind Neighbourhoods in England: Where They Are and Why They Matter,” The Geographical Journal

Franklin, Rachel. (2023). “Quantitative methods II: Big theory,” Progress in Human Geography

Franklin, Rachel. (2023). “Waking Up Early to Ponder the Future of Urban Analytics,” SubStack Newsletter

Robinson, Caitlin, Rachel S. Franklin, and Jack Roberts. (2022). “Optimising for equity: Sensor coverage, networks and the responsive city,” The Annals of the American Association of Geographers.