Projects
In some places, subway stations thrive with social infrastructure, while others find themselves in underdeveloped areas, surrounded by vast parking lots. Where are places where these two infrastructure co-exist, and what factors are associated with the divide?
While a new metro station enhances transit connetivity in the metro network, its construction plans to demolish a historic neighborhood in Guangzhou China. How can we quantify the social cost of the station in terms of loss in social connections and memories?
Airport as a regional transportation hub is a large, restricted land use that inhibits local mobility flows. With the newly proposed AeroATL Greenway Plan, how can planners engage citizens to evaluate and assess benefits of this trail network infrastructure for the nearby residents?
What are the main factors that are predictive of blighted properties in the city of Savannah? How can we build a predictive model with housing experts’ local knowledge “in the loop”?
Given the same levels of GDP, education, and population, do cities outperform at intercity connectivity also outperform at innovation?
How has COVID-19 pandemic impacted international scientific collaboration? Which disciplines or which countries suffer more? Do developing countries leverage COVID-19 to grow their research influence in the scientific networks?
Designed for social scientists, geographers, and planners to visualize spatial social networks in R. The tutorial comes with a R package that embed advanced functions and sample datasets.
How do you find clusters of incidents/individuals that are not only geographically close to each other, but also have dense local social connections?
How has COVID-19 impacted community economic networks in a conservation area?
A D3 explorer to show the racial and income diversity of people visiting point of interests (POI) in Atlanta. What kinds of POI are most/least diverse and where do they locate?
What are the demographic characteristics of people who are locals vs. jetsetters? How may these people different in local social support, ability to leverage social networks for disaster evacuation, and frequency to travel or migrate between cities?
How have research knowledge of spatial network insights and methods been applied to study cities and planning? What are some of the challenges and opportunities, especially in collaborative planning?
Which cities most resemble McCities? What kinds of built environment and sociodemographic characteristics are associated with the prevelance of chain restaurants?
Some colleges are mammals, others are cities. How scale of universities affect factors like tuition, research production, and teaching salaries? What are the tradeoffs and constraints for universities to be scale efficiently?
