Built environment | Hazard Vulnerability | Wealth inequality | Health disparity | Spatial Innovation
A. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Yu, Y., Flores, A., Connor, D., Meerow, S., Braswell, A. E., & Leyk, S. (2025). Flood risk and the built environment: Big property data for environmental justice and social vulnerability analysis. Population and Environment, 47(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00485-8
Connor, D. S., Xie, S., Jang, J., Frazier, A. E., Kedron, P., Jain, G., Yu, Y., & Kemeny, T. (2025). Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations. PNAS Nexus, 4(2), pgae587. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae587
Gong, X., Lai, S., Meng, Q., Santamouris, M., Yu, Y., & Zhang, L. (2025). Comparison of indoor thermal comfort of the elderly in urban, suburban rural and mountainous rural areas in South China karst. Building and Environment, 113260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113260
Helmrich, A., Gerber, B., Gall, M., Horton, P., El Asmar, M., Sailor, D. J., Neveu, M., El Kassis, R., Fagliarone, G., Kuruvada, N., Sanboskani, H., Vemulapalli, K., Vogel, A., Yu, Y., & White, D. (2025). Developing Long-Term Risk & Resilience Management Strategies for Physical Asset and Critical Infrastructure Projects. Frontiers in Built Environment. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2025.1530343
Gong, X., Yu, Y., Lai, S., Wang, X., Duan, X., Liu, J., & Wang, W. (2025). A Field Investigation on Summer Thermal Comfort of Occupants of Rural Houses in the North Area of Hot Summer and Warm Winter Zone, China. Buildings, 15(5), 715. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15050715
Flores, A.B., Sullivan, J.A., Yu, Y. & Friedrich, H.K. (2024). Health Disparities in the Aftermath of Flood Events: A Review of Physical and Mental Health Outcomes with Methodological Considerations in the USA. Current Environment Health Report 11, 238–254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-024-00446-7
Gong, X., Meng, Q., & Yu, Y. (2021). A Field Study on Thermal Comfort in Multi-Storey Residential Buildings in the Karst Area of Guilin. Sustainability, 13(22), 12764. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212764
Gong, X., Jia, C., Yu, Y., & Li C. (2019). Optimization of passive design measures for residential buildings in Chinese hot summer and cold winter areas. 2nd International Conference of Green Buildings and Environmental Management (GBEM), Guiyang, China, Jun.14-16, 2019. [IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 310 (2019) 022058] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/310/2/022058/pdf
Yu, Y., Pang, W., & Yang, Y. (2017). Community Space Design in the Context of Changing Community Relationships. Urbanism and Architecture | Planning Design (CN), 36(2):42-43.
B. MEDIA REPORT
Elliott, J. R., Boyer, D., & Yu, Y. (2026). What if Texas’ destructive ‘Tax Day’ flood had centered on inner Houston instead? It’s why cities should plan for the improbable. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAI.n3v6qtmsv, April 14, 2026.
Yu, Y., Elliott, J. R., & Cosley Trigg, K. (2025). As hurricane season peaks, Rice experts spotlight overlooked Houston flood risks beyond FEMA maps, Rice News, https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/hurricane-season-peaks-rice-experts-spotlight-overlooked-houston-flood-risks-beyond-fema, Aug. 26, 2025.
Yu, Y., Lin, Y., Lin, Y., & Luo, L. (2019). Illustrated Landscape Urbanism - Operate Urban Planning with Landscape, eyes on place,https://eyesonplace.net/2019/12/04/13192/?fbclid=IwAR3JXtRmEpsvn-JxjBJdlgK9AyMOJPhCyVqaN7IEpBBQT8LPB-4niMd13U4, Dec. 4, 2019.