Wei Zhai

About Wei Zhai

Dr. Wei Zhai is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at San Antonio, focusing on urban resilience and urban science. Dr. Zhai’s research interests center on how to make cities smart and resilient in the face of local and global environmental change.

Selected Publications

Zhai, W., Yu, H., Song, C. (2023). Disaster misinformation and its corrections on social media: Spatiotemporal proximity, social network, and sentiment contagion. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(2), 408-435., Zhai, W. *, Peng, Z. R., & Bai, X. (2021). Prototypical Resilience Projects for Postdisaster Recovery Planning: From Theory to Action. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X211048928., Zhai, W.*, Fu, X., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2021). The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19. Urban Studies, 00420980211050183., Zhai, W., Bai, X., Shi, Y., Han, Y., Peng, Z. R., & Gu, C. (2019). Beyond Word2vec: An approach for urban functional region extraction and identification by combining Place2vec and POIs. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74, 1-12.

Recent Courses Taught

URP 5463 Environmental Planning and Assessment
URP 5453 Urban and Regional Sustainability
URP 5363 Urban Planning Methods I