Perry Yang

About Perry Yang

Perry Yang is a Professor and Director of Eco Urban Lab of the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Perry’s work focuses on incorporating data analytics into urban design to improve ecological and energy performance of cities.

Areas of Expertise

Selected Publications

• Wang, X, Yang, P. P-J., Balchanos, M., Mavris, D., 2023, Urban airspace route planning for advanced air mobility operations in GIS environment, in CUPUM2023 Book: AI and Platforms in the City, R Goodspeed, R Sengupta, M Kytta, C Pettit eds. 
• Yang, P. P-J., Chang, S., Saha, N., Chen, H. W. 2020. Data-driven planning support system for a campus design, in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(8): 1474-1489.
• Yamagata, Y., Yang, P. P-J. eds. 2020. Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era, Elsevier.
• Yang, P. P-J., Quan, S. J., Castro- Lacouture, D., Stuart, B. 2018. A Geodesign method for managing a closed-loop urban system through algae cultivation. Applied Energy, 231, 1372-1382.

Recent Courses Taught

• Urban Design Studio
• Urban Ecological Design/ Design of Smart Urban Systems
• Smart City Workshop
• Urban Analytics Capstone