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Side-by-side aerial views of a multi-story building before and after collapse. The outlined area shows the intact building on the left and the remains of the destroyed structure on the right, reduced to rubble.

Unveiling the Linkage between Climate Change and Miami-Area Condominium Collapse

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By Yanghe Liu. Featured Image adapted from NY Post. On Thursday, June 24th, 2021, the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed suddenly roughly an hour after midnight. This catastrophic falling of the 40-year-old residential building in the Miami suburb has destroyed at least half of the 136 units, causing […]

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Poor and Black neighborhoods express different attitudes towards the hurricane

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Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng examined the association between neighborhood equity and disaster situational awareness with a case study of Hurricane Florence. Disaster situational awareness means knowing what is happening during a disaster event. Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R., & Yuan, F. (2020). Examine the effects of neighborhood equity on disaster situational

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Measuring Citywide Transportation Efficiency

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Doctoral students Wei Zhai and Xueyin Bai, and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng, developed a bottom-up approach to measuring transportation network efficiency with a case study of New York City taxis. October 31, 2019 Zhai, Wei, Xueyin Bai, Zhong-Ren Peng, Chaolin Gu, “A bottom-up transportation network efficiency measuring approach: A case study of taxi efficiency in New York

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The Change of Mobility in Poor and Wealthy Counties in the United States Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

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Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai, visiting scholar Mengyang Liu and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng visualized how foot traffic has increased or declined across the United States amid Covid-19 Outbreak. June 6, 2020 Zhai, W., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2020). Social distancing and inequality in the United States amid COVID-19 outbreak. Environment and Planning A: Economy and

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