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Xu, W. (2021). Legacies of Institutionalized Redlining: A Comparison Between Speculative and Implemented Mortgage Risk Maps in Chicago, Illinois. Housing Policy Debate, 0(0), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2020.1858924
  • Data and code used for the paper

Kang, W., Oshan, T., Wolf, L. J., Boeing, G., Frias-Martinez, V., Gao, S., Poorthuis, A., & Xu, W. (2019). A roundtable discussion: Defining urban data science. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(9), 1756–1768. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319882826

Williams, S., Xu, W., Tan, S. B., Foster, M. J., & Chen, C. (2019). Ghost cities of China: Identifying urban vacancy through social media data. Cities, 94, 275–285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.006
  • Media coverage on urbanNext and exhibition at the Seoul Biennale.

Xu, Wenfei. "Urban Explorations: Analysis of Public Park Usage using Mobile GPS Data." arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.01921 (2018).

Giampieri, M. A., Williams, S., Xu, W., Gunc, H., Langston, C. M., & Harvey, D. C. (2017). Benchmark: Using sensors to study public space. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings, 17(1), 22. "

Under Review


Xu, Wenfei. "The Contingency of Neighborhood Diversity: Variation of Social Context Using Mobile Phone Location Data"

Tan, Shin Bin, Wenfei Xu, Sarah Williams. "Spatial Distribution of High-End Housing in Chinese Private Resale Housing Markets"

Working Papers


Xu, Wenfei. "Opportunities and Limitations in Smart Cities Pratices and Urban Data Science"

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