Marley
Randazzo

I’m Marley Randazzo, a PhD Candidate in Urban Planning & Development at the University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy.

I made a game: play MSAdle here, a Wordle-style guessing game where you identify U.S. metro areas by their industry employment patterns. It's designed to be a teaching tool, gamifying employment data and regional specialization patterns.

My research explores urban development, demographics, and socio-spatial transformation. I am particularly interested in how technology alters the human behaviors and relational networks that shape the built environment—migration, employment, household formation, etc.

My dissertation, Cities in the Age of Remote Work: investigating work-from-home’s impacts on urban decline and the spatial structure, features three papers examining how the rise of remote work has and has not altered our largest and most productive cities.

Other ongoing projects include research on historical urban development and land-use patterns, online dating, and the economic geography of today's food service industry.

Prior to academia, I received my master’s of urban planning (MUP) at USC, and my BA in Growth and Structure of Cities at Haverford College.