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Xu, Wenfei. "Legacies of Institutionalized Redlining: A Comparison Between Speculative and Implemented Mortgage Risk Maps in Chicago" (2020) (Accepted at Housing Policy Debate)

Organizers, Wei Kang, Taylor Oshan, Levi J. Wolf, Discussants, Geoff Boeing, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Song Gao, Ate Poorthuis, and Wenfei Xu. "A roundtable discussion: Defining urban data science." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46, no. 9 (2019): 1756-1768.

Williams, Sarah, Wenfei Xu, Shin Bin Tan, Michael J. Foster, and Changping Chen. "Ghost cities of China: Identifying urban vacancy through social media data." Cities 94 (2019): 275-285.
  • Talk at NACIS
  • 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, Mario A., Sarah Williams, Wenfei Xu, Hayrettin Gunc, Christine M. Langston, and Dennis C. Harvey. "Benchmark: using sensors to study public space." In Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 22. 2017.

Under Review


Xu, Wenfei. "The Contingency of Neighborhood Diversity: Variation of Social Context Using Mobile Phone Location Data" (2020)

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

Working Papers


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

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