Brian Deal

About

Professor Brian Deal is actively engaged in teaching and research related to sustainability and planning. His scholarship includes the study of planning from an energy conservation perspective, urban land use transformation and modeling, planning for climate change, and approaches that enable communities to make better, more sustainable decisions. He is the founder of the Illinois Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC) and serves as the Director of the Landuse Evolution and Impact Assessment Model (LEAM) laboratory. His educational background includes a BS in Architectural Studies, an MA in Architecture, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Geography
• Engineering
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Environmental planning
• Regional science
• Meteorology
• Environmental resource management
• Civil engineering

Selected publications

• Discerning the success of sustainable planning: A comparative analysis of urban heat island dynamics in Korean new towns

  Sustainable Cities and Society · 2020 · 59 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Spatial impacts of multimodal accessibility to green spaces on housing price in Cook County, Illinois

  Urban forestry & urban greening · 2021 · 56 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• An urban informatics approach to understanding residential mobility in Metro Chicago

  Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science · 2020 · 32 citations

  This paper proposes that urban informatics can represent a flow of information from diverse and voluminous data into and back from the planning process. We present a proof-of-concept of how an urban informatics approach can improve public understanding of essential information in the planning process, and we propose a theoretical construct of how it can make planning processes more democratic and participatory, especially for disadvantaged groups. Specifically, this study uses a multi-dimensiona…

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• How neighborhood conditions and policy incentives affect relocation outcomes of households from low-income neighborhoods—Evidence from intra-city movement trajectories

  Cities · 2021 · 29 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning

  Anthropocene · 2023-05-27 · 26 citations

  articleOpen access

  An ideal form of smart city planning would focus on the availability of urban amenities that can meet the basic needs of a resident’s material life, civil connections, and humanistic spirit. Previous studies have concentrated on analyzing the spatial distribution of urban services, with less attention on their contribution as local urban amenities. In this study, we propose a spatial dynamic modeling approach based on urban amenities using social media data from Google Place API to provide locat…

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Frequent coauthors

• Haozhi Pan

  Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  26 shared

• Zahra Kalantari

  KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  13 shared

• Yoonshin Kwak

  Gachon University

  12 shared

• Varkki Pallathucheril

  American University of Sharjah

  11 shared

• Yexuan Gu

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  10 shared

• Xuesong Zhang

  China Agricultural University

  10 shared

• Georgia Destouni

  Stockholm University

  9 shared

• Ji-Lu Zheng

  8 shared

Labs

• Department of Landscape ArchitecturePI

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