Yichun Zhou

Yichun Zhou

Ph.D. candidate in Urban Systems
Anticipated Graduation: May 2025
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Research Associate at LOUD

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo

Published in Applied Geography, 2024.
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Citation: Zhou, Y., Guan, C., Wu, L., Li, Y., Nie, X., Song, J., Kim, S. K., & Akiyama, Y. (2024). Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo. Applied Geography, 167, 103300.
Summary: This study introduces a novel classification of urban parks in Tokyo based on mobile phone data from 300 parks, revealing distinct park types—everyday leisure parks, social destination parks, and seasonal activity parks—each with unique visitation patterns. These findings support targeted park management strategies that align maintenance and amenities with actual usage trends, enhancing green infrastructure planning.

Exploring environmental equity and visitation disparities in peri-urban parks: A mobile phone data-driven analysis in Tokyo

Published in Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024.
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Citation: Guan, C., & Zhou, Y. (2024). Exploring environmental equity and visitation disparities in peri-urban parks: A mobile phone data-driven analysis in Tokyo. Landscape and Urban Planning, 248, 105104.
Summary: This study examines environmental equity and visitation disparities in Tokyo’s peri-urban parks using mobile phone data, revealing that extending the park service radius beyond 10 km could reduce inequities in park access. The findings provide insights for developing policies that enhance accessibility and better address visitor needs in urban planning.

“Unfenced” parks and residents’ visit patterns: A regression discontinuity design in Shanghai

Published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2024.
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Citation: Wu, L., Zhou, Y., Nie, X., Kim, S. K., Shao, Y., & Guan, C. (2024). “Unfenced” parks and residents’ visit patterns: A regression discontinuity design in Shanghai. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 78, 128459.
Summary: This study employs a regression discontinuity design to examine shifts in park visitation behaviors among Shanghai residents following the sudden easing of COVID-19 containment measures, revealing decreased visits, reduced public transit use, and diminished activity levels, particularly in larger parks and community greenspaces. These insights inform greenspace management strategies during transitional post-pandemic periods.

Conference Proceedings

Zhou, Y., Song, X., & Zhou, M. (2021). Supply chain fraud prediction based on XGBoost method. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Engineering (ICBAIE), pp. 539-542. DOI

Zhou, Y., Cheng, Y., Lin, Y., & Mengqiu, T. (2021). Sales Forecasting Using GBDT Based Model and Data Mining Method. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics and Computer Engineering (ICCECE), pp. 398-401. DOI

Teng, Y., Chen, D., Zhou, Y., Vegh, N. M., & Zhang, R. (2020). A WaveNet based Ion Channel prediction Method. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1651(1), 012009. DOI

Under Review

  1. Zhou, Y., Wu, T., & Guan, C. How perceived residential environments affect neighborhood park visitation? A nonlinear analysis of mobile data and street view imagery. (Under Review)
  2. Wu, L., Zhou, Y., Nie, X., Kim, S. K., Guan, C., & Shao, Y. Buffering effects of green space on residents’ mental wellbeing: A regression discontinuity analysis during “exiting from zero-COVID” period. (Revise and Resubmit)
  3. Wu, L., Zhou, Y., Nie, X., & Guan, C. Enhancing subjective well-being through community and demographical moderators in planning indoor and outdoor green spaces. (Under Review)
  4. Song, J., Guan, C., Zhou, Y., Akiyama, Y., & Shibasaki, R. Planning implications of visitor-oriented urban park categorization: An application of home-park trip characteristics from mobile phone data. (Revise and Resubmit)
  5. Xie, H., You, M., Guan, C., Lin, T., Zhou, Y., Li, C., Xiao, Y., Wang, X., & Liu, X. Towards an equality evaluation mechanism of urban green space quality: A case study of Fuzhou, China. (Under Review)
  6. Guan, C., Zhong, H., Zhou, Y., Srinivasan, S., Zhang, B., & Nielsen, C. P. How do young adults’ choices of active travel influence the planning of low-carbon cities? (Under Review)

Selected Works in Progress

  1. Zhou, Y., & Guan, C. Social sensing for planning urban green space: A review. (Manuscript in preparation)
  2. Zhou, Y., Ren, X., & Guan, C. The causal impact of urban park physical and visual features on visitation duration and activity intensity. (Manuscript in preparation)
  3. Zhou, Y. Exploring human interactions with urban green space through social sensing and spatiotemporal analysis. (Dissertation)