Chen Yang

Assistant Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. University of Waterloo Alumni.

[Re-Figuration of Spaces (SFB 1265) @SFB1265]

Out now #OpenAccess
The "Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research" (@transcriptweb) presents a broad interdisciplinary range of methods to study different facets of space, with lots of instructive explanations and concrete examples!📖
https://t.co/1IhnZM0xB6

[Chen Yang @chenyang0123]

Urban imagination is much needed for planning Urban futures!

[ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴜᴛᴏ @MicheleAcuto]

If you’re doing work on #urbanfutures and urban #imagination we’d love to hear from you! Our second thematic call for papers at @USJ_online is out and it’s a great one.. 🔮🤓
Have a look and get it touch - i’m guest editing this one with Markus Moos and Shenjing He! ⬇️

[American Planning Association @APA_Planning]

Digital twins are playing a crucial role in designing cities. Learn how to leverage this resource for proficient data management and community dynamics to help shape strategic planning initiatives - part of APA's Upskilling efforts. https://t.co/ULrY3QgZJR

[Northwestern Polytechnical University @NPUintl]

Looking for more information about our dual degree program ? Join our admission officers this Wednesday on #zoom to clear all your queries !

@kmo_kaznu

[Michael Batty @jmichaelbatty]

Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with
AI and Street-Level Imagery – Fan Zhang et al. current issue, Annals AAG open source, https://t.co/TgY8FrDgLg

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

Geospatial data science is all about having access to good data.

Here are a list of my favourite free geospatial resources:

[Michael Batty @jmichaelbatty]

Our edited book Urban Informatics (free download Springer https://t.co/Zf6vKItn1p) has been translated into Chinese. Get it here https://t.co/hpxjtOUOfP. The world turned upside down – English edition free, Chinese quite cheap but not free as far as I can tell !

[Urban Analytics Lab @urbanalyticslab]

JAG publishes a massive review on GeoAI in quantitative human geography. In this paper, 8 of our lab members have been involved in. Starting from a corpus of 14,537 papers, 1516 of them were reviewed to outline the applications of GeoAI in this domain. 🔗 https://t.co/1ym2siOHvh

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

#OpenAccess debates paper by Richard Kirk demonstrates that some measure of influence is exerted by #AcademicDiscourse on displacement-inducing #UrbanPolicy in the US
https://t.co/t4zfZQaPQT
#displacement

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

New #OpenAccess debates paper by Richard Kirk: Legitimising #displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation, and #gentrification
https://t.co/t4zfZQaPQT

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

Published this week, Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics. #openaccess: https://t.co/zFAW4pCfOU

[Human Geography @HGJournal]

Human Geography 17.1 has been published. It has a special symposium on Mike Davis that has been guest edited by Ananya Roy. Please share widely:
https://t.co/gHri2bQ29D

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

New #BookReview by Muhammad Rizal Pahleviannur: The Urban Rehabilitation of Post-Disaster Scapes by Nerma Omićević and Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci @SpringerNature
https://t.co/YuPGQn0S2S

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

We have just updated our database of funding opportunities/fellowships for PhD students

For each entry of the 190 entries, we provide link, $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download this database for free here: https://t.co/1h76jJaHOv

Good luck!

[Peking University @PKU1898]

On the first day of Zheng Yue (the first month of the Chinese New Year), people visit relatives and friends to exchange New Year greetings. Dear #Pekingers, don't forget to share your festive moments with us!

Source: People's Daily Online

#SpringFestivalTraditions

[Bunting Labs 🗺 @BuntingLabs]

6 months, 158,000 map training datapoints, and an entire rebuild of the AI later: today is the launch of our QGIS AI Map Tracing Plugin!

Check it out in the QGIS plugins window as "Bunting Labs AI Vectorizer" #GISChat

[Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @UrbanDemog]

📖The Eng version of "Introduction to urban accessibility a practical guide with R" has been officially published by @ipeaonline.
In addition to the online book, you can now download the book as a PDF to read it offline.
🌐https://t.co/wfNp6NVatR
Great colab with @dhersz!

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

Dimensionality reduction can see structures that do not exist and miss structures that exist.

The simplest explanation isn’t always the best.

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