Li Yin
PhD
Selected Publications
- *Wang, C., *Yin, F., *Zhao, Y., and Yin, L.#2023. Making Transportation Systems In U.S. Cities Smarter and More Inclusive: A Synthesis of Challenges and Evaluation of Strategies. International Journal of Geo-Information. 12(2). 72
- *Wang, C. and Yin, L. 2023. Defining ‘Urban Big Data’ in Urban Planning: A Literature Review. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 149(1).
- Yin, L., and Silverman, R. (2022): Spatial Clustering of Property Abandonment In Shrinking Cities: A Case Study of Targeted Demolition In Buffalo, NY’s African American Neighborhoods, Urban Geography, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2022.2142404
- *Yin, F. , Crooks, A. and Yin, L. 2022. Information Propagation on Cyber, Relational and Physical Spaces about Covid-19 Vaccine: Using Social Media and Splatial
- Framework. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 98
- Yin, L. and *Zhang H#. 2021. Building Walkable and Safe Neighborhoods: Assessing the Built Environment Characteristics for Pedestrian Safety in Buffalo, NY. Journal of Transport & Health. 22.
- Yin, L., Patterson, K.L., Silverman, R.M, *Wu, L., and *Zhang, H. 2020. Neighborhood Accessibility and Walkability of Subsidized Housing in Shrinking U.S. Cities. Urban Studies. 59(2). pp323-340
- Zhang, H. and Yin, L. 2020. The Application of Big Data in Assessing the Built Environment for Public Health: A Literature Review (In Chinese) ShangHai Urban Planning Review. 137(5) pp 36-40.
- Yin, L., Zhang, H., Patterson, K., Silverman, R. M., and Wu, L. (2020). Walkability, safety, and housing values in Shrinking cities: A Spatial Hedonic Study in Buffalo, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, and Detroit, MI. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 146(3).
- Zhang, H. and Yin, L. 2020 The Impact of the Built Environment on Pedestrian Safety and Walkability: A Literature Review and Case Study (In Chinese) ShangHai Urban Planning Review, 134(3) pp 57-62.
- Silverman, R.M., Taylor, H., Yin, L., *Miller, C. and *Buggs, P. (2020). Are we still going through the empty ritual of participation?: Inner-city residents’ and other grassroots stakeholders' perceptions of public input and neighborhood revitalization. Critical Sociology 46(3), pp413-428
- Wu, L., Hu, S., He, Z., Yin, L., Xu, Y., Cui, H. (2020). A framework for extracting urban functional regions based on multiprototype word embeddings using points-of-interest data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 80
- Silverman, R.M., Yin, L. and Taylor, H.L. 2020. Managing competing interests in the public participation process: Lessons from an analysis of residential displacement in Buffalo New York’s transitioning neighborhoods. Pp. 211-223, in Research handbook on community development, edited by Rhoda Phillips, New York: Routledge. Yin, L., Wu, L., Cole, S. and Wu, LY. (2019). Synthesizing Data to Explore the Dynamic Spatial Patterns of Hotel Development International Journal of Geo-Information.
- Silverman, R.M., Taylor, H., Yin, L., Miller, C. and Buggs, P. (2019). Are we still going through the empty ritual of participation?: Inner-city residents’ and other grassroots stakeholders' perceptions of public input and neighborhood revitalization. Critical Sociology
- Silverman, R.M., Taylor, H.T., Yin, L., Miller, C. and Buggs, P. 2019. Place making as a form of place taking: Residential displacement and grassroots resistance to institutional encroachment in Buffalo, NY. Journal of Place Management and Development 12(4) pp566-580.
- Cui, H., Wu, L., He, Z., Hu, S., Ma, K., Yin, L., Tao, L. 2019. Exploring Multidimensional Spatiotemporal Point Patterns Based on an Improved Affinity Propagation Algorithm International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(11) 1988
- Silverman, R.M., Taylor, H., Yin, L., Miller, C. and Buggs, P. 2019. There goes our family friendly neighborhood: Residents’ perceptions of institutionally driven inner-city revitalization in Buffalo, NY Journal of Community Practice. pp168-187
- Jia, P., Xue, H., Yin, L., Stein, A. Wang, M. and Wang, F. 2019. Spatial technologies in obesity research: current Applications and future promise. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism. 30(3). pp211-223
- Zhang, H. and Yin, L. 2019. A Meta-analysis of the Literature on the Association between the Social and Built Environment and Obesity: Identifying Factors in Need of More In-depth Research. American Journal of Health Promotion 33(5) pp792-805
- Silverman, R.M., Taylor, H.T., Yin, L., Miller, C. and Buggs, P. 2018. Perceptions of Residential Displacement and Grassroots Resistance to Anchor Driven Encroachment in Buffalo, NY. Urbanities. 8(2).pp79-86
- Zhang, H. and Yin, L. 2018. Spatial Clustering of Pedestrian Activity and the Built Environment Characteristics. Nano Life. 8(2), 1840005
- Wu, L., Hu, S., Yin, L., Wang, Y., Chen, Z., Guo, M., Chen, H., and Xie, Z. 2017. Optimizing Cruising Routes for Taxi Drivers Using a Spatio-temporal Trajectory Model International Journal of Geo-Information. 6, pp373-393
- Zhang, H. and Yin, L. 2017 Building Healthy Cities: Applying Spatial Technology in the Public Health Research (In Chinese) ShangHai Urban Planning Review, 134(3) pp 57-62.
- Yin, L. 2017. Street Level Urban Design Qualities for Walkability: Combining 2D and 3D GIS Measures Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 64, pp288-296
- Silverman, R.M., Yin, L. and Patterson, K.L. 2017. Siting Affordable Housing in Opportunity Neighborhoods: An Assessment of HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Mapping Tool, Journal of Community Practice 25(2), pp143-158
- Patterson, K.L., Ranahan, M., Silverman, R.M. and Yin, L. 2017. Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs): A Typology for Shrinking Cities. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 37(3/4), pp231-247.
- Yin, L. and Wang Z. 2016. Measuring Visual Enclosure for Street Walkability: Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Google Street View Imagery Applied Geography 76, pp147-153.
- Shao, Z., Fu, H., Fu, P., and Yin, L. 2016. Mapping Urban Impervious Surface by Fusing Optical and SAR data Based on the Random Forests and D-S Theory. Remote Sensing 8(11), 945
- Patterson, K.L., Silverman, R.M, Yin, L. and Wu, L. 2016. Neighborhoods of Opportunity: Developing an Operational Definition for Planning and Policy Implementation. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. 22(3) pp142-153.
- Yin, L., Cheng, Q., Wang, Z. and Shao, Z. 2015. ‘Big Data’ for Pedestrian Volume: Exploring the use of Google Street View Images for Pedestrian Counts. Applied Geography 63, pp337-345
- Silverman, R.M., Patterson, K.L., Yin, L., and Wu, L.2015. Neighborhood characteristics and the location of HUD-subsidized housing in shrinking cities: An analysis to inform anchor-based urban revitalization strategies. Community Development 46(5), pp632-651
- Yin, L. and Silverman, R.M. 2015. Housing Abandonment and Demolition: Exploring the Use of Micro-level and Multi-year Models. International Journal of Geo-Information. 4. pp1184-1200
- Solhyon, B. Raja, S., Park, J., Epstein, L., Yin, L., and Roemmich, J. 2015. Park Design and Children’s Active Play: A Micro-Scale Spatial Analysis of Intensity of Play in Olmsted’s Delaware Park. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 42(6). pp1079-1097
- Hajrasouliha, A. and Yin, L. 2015. The Impact of Street Network Connectivity on Pedestrian Movement. Urban Studies. 52(13). pp2483-2497
- Silverman, R.M., Yin, L., and Patterson, K.L. 2015. Municipal property acquisition patterns in a shrinking city: Evidence for the persistence of an urban growth paradigm in Buffalo, NY. Cogent Social Sciences. 1, pp1-22
- Feda, D. M., Seelbinder, A., Baek, S., Raja, S., Yin, L., and Roemmich, J. N. 2015. Neighbourhood Parks and Reduction in Stress among Adolescents: Results from Buffalo, New York. Indoor and Built Environment. 24(5) pp631-639
- Huang, H. and Yin, L. 2015. Creating sustainable urban built environments: An application of hedonic house price models in Wuhan, China. Journal of Housing and Built Environment. 30. pp219-235
- Yin, L. and Shiode, N. 2014. “3D Spatial-Temporal GIS Model of Urban Environments for Supporting the Designing and Planning Process. Journal of Urbanisim: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 7(2). pp152-169
- Yin, L., Raja, S., Li, X., Lai, Y., Epstein, L. H., and Roemmich, J. N. 2013. Neighborhood for Playing: Using GPS, GIS, and Accelerometry to Delineate Areas within which Youth are Physically Active. Urban Studies, 50(14), pp2922-2939
- Yin, L. 2013. Assessing Walkability in the City of Buffalo: An Application of Agent-Based Simulation, Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 139(3). pp166-175
- Silverman, R.M., Yin, L., and Patterson, K. 2013. Dawn of the Dead City: An Exploratory Analysis of Vacant Addresses in Buffalo, NY 2008-2010. Journal of Urban Affairs 35(2), pp131-152
- Yin, L. 2010. “Modeling Cumulative Effects of Wildfire Hazard Policy and Exurban Household Location Choices: An Application of Agent-based Simulations.” Planning Theory and Practice 11(3), pp375-396
- Yin, L. 2010. “Integrating 3D Visualization and GIS in Planning Education,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 34(3), pp419-438.
- Raja, S., Yin, L., Roemmich, J., Ma, C., Epstein, L., Yadav, P. and Ticoalu, A. 2010. “Food environment, Built Environment, and Women's BMI: Evidence from Erie County, New York” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 29(4), pp444-460.
- Muller, B. and Yin, L. 2010. “Regional Governance and Hazard Information: The Role of Co-ordinated Risk Assessment and Regional Spatial Accounting in Wildfire Hazard Mitigation”. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 53(1), pp1-21.
- Yin, L. 2009. “The Dynamics of Residential Segregation in Buffalo: An Agent- Based Simulation” Urban Studies 46(13), pp2749-2770.
- Muller, B., Yin, L., Kim, Y., and Alexanderescu, F. 2008. “The Dynamics of Land Development in Resort Communities: A Multiagent Simulation of Growth Regimes and Housing Choice” Environment and Planning A 40(7), pp1728-1743.
- Yin, L. and Muller, B. 2008. “Urbanization and Resort Regions: Creating an Agent-based Simulation of Housing Density in ‘Ski Country’” Journal of Urban Technology, 15(2), pp55-75.
- Yin, L. and Hastings, J. 2007. “Capitalizing on Views: Assessing Visibility Using 3D Visualization and GIS Technologies for Hotel Development in the City of Niagara Falls, USA” Journal of Urban Technology, 14(3), pp59-82.
- Yin, L. 2007. “Assessing Indirect Spatial Effects of Mountain Tourism Development: An Application of Agent-based Spatial Modeling” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 37(3), pp257-265.
- Yin, L. and Muller, B. 2007. “Residential Location and the Biophysical Environment: Exurban Development Agents in a Heterogeneous Landscape” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 34(2), pp279-295.
- Roemmich, J. N., Epstein, L. H., Raja, S., and Yin, L. 2007. “The Neighborhood and Home Environments: Disparate Relationships with Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Youth” Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33(1) pp 29-38.
- Yin, L. 2006. “Agent-based Simulations for Disaster Decision Support” Journal of Security Education, 1(4) pp169-175.
- Roemmich, J. N., Epstein, L. H., Raja, S., Yin, L., Robinson, J., and Winiewicz, D. 2006. “Association of Access to Parks and Recreational Facilities with the Physical Activity of Young Children” Preventive Medicine, 43(6) pp 437-441.