A5077358456- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Housing Market and Economics
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Noise Effects and Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Rural development and sustainability
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Urban and spatial planning
- Architecture and Art History Studies
Texas A&M University
2016-2025
Mitchell Institute
2015-2025
Jiangsu Provincial Urban Planning and Design Institute
2018
Urban digital twins (UDTs) have been identified as a potential technology to achieve transformative positive urban change through landscape architecture and planning. However, how this new will influence community resilience adaptation planning is currently unclear. This article: (1) offers scoping review of existing studies constructing UDTs, (2) identifies challenges opportunities UDT technologies for planning, (3) develops conceptual framework UDTs infrastructure resilience. article...
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Land use planning is key to mitigating natural hazards the effects of climate change. Communities adopt multiple plans that directly indirectly address hazard mitigation; integration local can significantly affect future community vulnerability hazards. We develop a resilience scorecard assess degree which network targets areas most prone then evaluate coordination test it in Washington (NC), vulnerable coastal floods projected sea-level rise. find...
Vacant land is a significant issue in virtually every country across the globe. This study presents current inventory of vacant and structural abandonment urban United States. Using survey data, it analyses trends by region city type. Nationally, an average 16.7% large US cities’ area considered vacant, with approximately 4% addresses unoccupied. The ratio to size has increased 1.3 percentage points since 1998 but decreased 3 1963. Regional variations exist both amount kind land, suggesting...
Purpose Participatory action research can improve scientific knowledge and community capacity to address disaster resilience environmental justice. Evidence from the literature suggests that resident participation enhances assessment of risks, raises awareness empowers residents fight for equitable distribution hazard climate risk adaptations. Yet, urban planning processes still frequently operate within expertise-driven groups without significant engagement. Such fragmentation results in...
Place-based structural inequalities can have critical implications for the health of vulnerable populations. Historical urban policies, such as redlining, contributed to current in exposure intra-urban heat. However, it is unknown whether these spatial are associated with disparities heat-related outcomes. The aim this study determine relationships between historical heat conditions, and emergency department visits using data from eleven Texas cities. At zip code level, proportion redlining...
The aim of this study was to identify the major variables identified as important for considering stabilization slope revegetation based on hydroseeding applications and evaluate weights each variable using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with both environmental experts civil engineers. Twenty-five were selected by experts’ survey from a total 65 existing literature, considered an factor in South Korea. final results AHP method showed that associated driving force water resources higher...
Many cities worldwide are using re-greening strategies to help reverse urbanization patterns that aggravate environmental issues. Green infrastructure (GI) has become a significant and effective strategy address problems. To better understand GI, this study uses CiteSpace analyze 5420 published papers in the field of GI on Web Science database from 1990–2020. This bibliometric analysis will new scholars researchers current status trends research, as well identify further research needed...
Abstract Due to the growing importance of accessibility urban amenities on quality life and neighborhood satisfaction in South Korea, various efforts have been made improve by establishing a minimum standard, an approach called Living Social Overhead Capital (Living SOC); for example, one such standards states that elementary school should be reachable within 15-min walk. However, these endeavors not yet resulted equal distribution SOC rural areas. Many residents feel disparity is greatest...
Abstract Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly recognized for their potential to improve efficiency and decision-making in various domains of the built environment. Despite promise, challenges like cost, complexity, interoperability, data integration remain. This paper introduces a novel interactive visual analytics system that tackles these issues, using case study simulating class distribution campus building capacity at large public university. The leverages enrollment data, converting it...
Climate change and its related factors are increasing the frequency of hurricanes, coastal storms, urban flooding. Recovery from disasters can be slow, with jurisdictions failing to rebuild better, wasting time money without improving resilience for next disaster. To help attenuate floods mitigate their impact, Low-Impact Development (LID) incorporation green infrastructure (GI) is gaining in popularity. LID includes more natural methods absorbing, redirecting, retaining, filtering water...
Rising sea levels and coastal population growth will increase flood risk of more people assets if land use changes are not planned adequately. This research examines the efficacy protection systems planning by comparing Amsterdam in Netherlands (renown for resilience methods), with city Houston, Texas US (seeking ways increasing due to extreme recent flooding). It assesses future urban lieu level rise using Land Transformation Model, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based Artificial...
Communities adjacent to concentrated areas of industrial land use (CAILU) are exposed elevated levels pollutants during flood disasters. Many CAILU also characterized by insufficient infrastructure, poor environmental quality, and socially vulnerable populations. Manchester, TX is a marginalized neighborhood proximate several petrochemical sites that prone frequent flooding. Pollutants from stormwater runoff discharge uses into residential have created increased toxicant exposures. Working...
Neighborhood greenspace benefits health, yet few tools are available for estimating the health consequences of community design alternatives, especially prior to implementation a landscape plan. Herein we present machine learning based tool predicting prevalence non-communicable diseases on maps at scale. We achieve this data collected in five major metropolises United States. By using high-resolution satellite imagery and remote sensing technologies, spatial characteristics were extracted...
This study explores the integration of text-to-image generative AI, particularly Stable Diffusion, in conjunction with ControlNet and LoRA models conceptual landscape design. Traditional methods design are often time-consuming limited by designer’s individual creativity, also lacking efficiency exploration diverse solutions. By leveraging AI tools, we demonstrate a workflow that efficiently generates detailed visually coherent designs, including natural parks, city plazas, courtyard gardens....