Xinyu Fu

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Final week to submit your abstract to our EPB special issue!

Guest editors: myself, Dr. Catherine Brinkley at UC Davis, Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez at TAMU, Dr. Chaosu Li at HKUST-GZ, and @AndyCrooks at UBuffalo. Please rt to reach a wider community! @LindaMSee @envplanb @IIASAVienna

📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 Special Issue on "Leveraging #NLP for Urban Analytics" in Environment & Planning B. Transform urban planning with #AI! 🏙️ 🗓️ Abstract Deadline: 24 April 2024 📩 Submit abstracts to Xinyu Fu at xinyu.fu@waikato.ac.nz More details: journals.sagepub.com/page/epb/colle…

Most cities don’t map their own #pedestrian networks. Researchers @MITdusp have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that. #urbanplanning mitsha.re/kfta50P1A9m

New or improved flood protection can give a false sense of security – the so-called ‘levee effect’. However, climate change is unpredictable, which means ‘residual risk’ always exists and must be planned for, write Xinyu Fu + colleagues (@waikato). #Echobox=1693436367-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/flood-protecti…

Fresh off press: an op-ed on residual flood risk. We need to move away from the conventional “build more levees” to "creating more room for water" approach. theconversation.com/flood-protecti…

@DanImmergluck Sending love with our new puppy Maggie.

@TimFWelch Congratulations Tim. Very interesting project!

Planners, #policymakers, #gis and #dataviz people of twitter, @TrivikV @mikhailsirenko and I released a new #opensource project: CityAccessMap. It's an open source #webapplication that visualizes urban #accessibility insights for almost every city in the globe 🌐. 🧵1/6

@tjedd Yes, lectures are required to be made available online since the begining of the pandemic. Since then, I find the motivation for students to actually come in-person is increasingly diminishing. I never got more than half of the enrollment attending lecture this semester.

@FuXinyu I've had similar experiences over the last two semesters of our return to in-person teaching... Out of curiosity, are you recording and posting your lectures?

Today marks my first time that no student turned up during a lecture. How can it be worse than during the pandemic? #PandemicIsOver

@AndreeaCalude I actually just realized that and wondered whether today is actually a school holiday. Finger-crossed for that as teaching to myself is no fun.

@FuXinyu Oh @FuXinyu sorry to hear that - attendance has been low for many of us....today may be explained by Kīngitanga Day perhaps!?! Hang in there :) people will gradually come back ...

"Institutional prestige significantly shapes faculty placements. Nearly half of planning faculty graduated from Berkeley, MIT, UCLA, Cornell, and UNC. Faculty are predominantly hired in similar or lower ranking programs with little upward mobility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

@DrShariGallop @ivanhaigh I use Google chrome and it saves password across platforms.

@RavenCretneyNZ @APA @100ResCities Thanks Raven!

Can machines read plans? Our new @APA JAPA paper explore the potential of natural language processing to analyze planning documents from the @100ResCities and we propose a framework for cutting-edge planners to leverage its power to read a large stack of plans more efficiently.

Thanks my co-authors Chaosu Li and @WeiZhai1209; 50 Free access here: tandfonline.com/eprint/UCRYBRP…