@waikato planning senior lecturer; interested in cities and water; part-time academic, full-time nerd

Joined August 2011
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19 Jul 2024
Check out this APA blog covering our latest JAPA paper.
Should AI be used to sift through public engagement data? The ethics and best practices of ChatGPT in planning are discussed in a New Zealand case study published in #JAPAplanning. @FuXinyu @waikato @TAMUArchSchool @hkust_ppol plnn.org/3zRxyLy
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18 Apr 2024
Final week to submit your abstract to our EPB special issue!
7 Mar 2024
📣 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/ep…
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7 Mar 2024
📣 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/ep…
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8 Mar 2024
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
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2 Sep 2023
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

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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). theconversation.com/flood-pr…
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31 Aug 2023
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-pr…

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16 Oct 2022
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
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15 Sep 2022
Today marks my first time that no student turned up during a lecture. How can it be worse than during the pandemic? #PandemicIsOver
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"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…
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20 Jun 2022
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.
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18 Jun 2022
Check out our new paper published in the Journal of Environmental Management. In this study, we try to conceptualize resilience in climate adaptation planning and examine how well existing adaption plans incorporate its key notions in the US. authors.elsevier.com/a/1fGAL…

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Interested in #soil, #care, #children, #publicspace, #climatechange & #indigenous #planning! Tune in @ACRN_SOAC #SpeakingOut webinar 2022! 📢 Date: Thursday 16 June 📢 11am (Perth), 1pm (AEST), 3pm (NZ) 📢 Register- bit.ly/38ZlaMf 👇speaker info docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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When clubbing goes bad in Downtown Miami #miami #flood #brickell #downtown #PTC1
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31 May 2022
📢 Join us at @ACRN_SOAC #SpeakingOut webinar 2022: Emerging Research Voices from Aotearoa NZ! 📢 Date: Thursday, 16 June 📢 11am (Perth), 1pm (Syd/Melb), 3pm (NZ) 📢 Register here - bit.ly/38ZlaMf Please share in your network 👏 scroll👇 for more info.
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