Williamson, Thad. "Sprawl, Spatial Location and Politics: How Ideological Identification Tracks the Built Environment." American Politics Research 36 (2008): 903-933.
Williamson, Thad. "From Concentrated Poverty to Community Wealth Building: A Report from the Field on Richmond’s Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Wealth Building Initiative." Carolina Planning Journal 40 (2015), pp. 14-18.
Urban Affairs Review 43 (2008): 584-591
Review essay of Sprawl: A Compact History, by Robert Bruegmann, Don’t Call it Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the Twenty-First Century, by William T. Bogart. and Zoned Out: Regulations, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use, by Jonathan Levine. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2006.
Suburban Injustice: https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/suburban-injustice/Content?oid=1362215
Review essay on Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos : https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race/thad-williamson-almost-inevitable-failure-justice
"The Challenge of Urban Sprawl," in Nancy Kleiniewski, ed, "Cities and Society." Blackwell, 2005.
Review of Edward Soja's Seeking Spatial Justice. City and Community 12 (2013).