Research


Journal Articles

"Cao, J., Yang, J. Revealing Park Safety Insights via Instagram Posts: A Novel Analysis of Los Angeles County Parks Leveraging Chat-GPT4. (Under Writing)"
  • Previous research has indicated that urban parks often play a role as crime generators. While various studies have explored the connection between park safety and the spatial behavior of visitors through structural questionnaires and traditional methods, recent research has begun to leverage social media data for insights. However, there has been a notable scarcity of studies focusing on gender differences in this context.

    This research seeks to evaluate the potential of Instagram as a tool for discerning gender disparities in park safety, utilizing spot crime data alongside ChatGPT as an innovative method for processing image content. The research is designed to uncover patterns and investigate the utility of spatial indicators (visibility, vegetation, density, lighting, and land use). With aim to pinpoint areas that demand the attention of decision-makers, enabling the development of strategies to enhance safety and address gender inequality in neighborhood parks.
"Goula M, Vanucchi J. Sustained Change: Design Speculations on the Performance of Fallow-Scapes in Time along the Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, (ECNHC), New York.” Sustainability. 2022; 14(3):1675. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031675."
  • Utilized ArcGIS and mapping tools to analyze rural land cover patterns in the Erie Canal area and identified opportunities for agroforestry, afforestation and carbon sequestration methods for climate change mitigation.
  • Work as research assistant under Prof. Goula's supervision. 
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Comparative cartographies trace the deforestation and reforestation patterns over time and provide a critical base map for fallow lands in the study area.
"Zhou Y, Wu B, Gan W, Geng XC. A Review of Quantitative Measurement Methods on the Form of Street Interface,” South Architecture 2019,(1):88-93."
  • Street interface is the material basis for the formation of street space. The existing quantitative measurement parameters are numerous and diverse, and it is urgent to summarize them. This paper attempts to summarize and compare compares various quantitative measurement parameters related to street interfaces, considering urban form, spatial cognition, and environmental behavior. 
  • Parameters such as Interface Density, Build-to-Line Ratio, Alignment of Buildings, and Near-Line Ratio have distinct applications in urban form research. Recent studies in spatial cognition and environmental behavior have shifted from a city-centered perspective to a human-oriented one, emphasizing street space quality and human experience. Future research should adopt a multidimensional framework, integrating urban morphology, environmental behavior, spatial cognition, regional climate, and historical culture to develop a comprehensive quantitative measurement method for street interfaces.

Book Chapters

"MidTown Cleveland Final Report - Rails, Trails, and Building Community. 2020. City and Regional Planning, Cornell University."

"Storm - Innovative Thinking and Design Competition Expression, 2018, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press. ISBN: 9787568045919."

Conferences

Co-organizer, “Sensation” The 5th Shanghai Landscape Forum, Shanghai, China. (2019)
Student Assistant, The 8th Asia-Pacific Hotel Design Annual Conference (APHDA), Wuhan, China. (2018)
Student Assistant, CHINA New Architecture Academic Forum (NAAF), Huazhong University of Science and Technology. (2018)