Resilient Urban Landscapes: GeoAI for Sustainable Growth and Climate Adaptation
Name of Event/Lecture
Resilient Urban Landscapes: GeoAI for Sustainable Growth and Climate Adaptation
Name of Speaker
Yue Zhu
Location
SDE3 Level 4, LT427
Date: 13 March 2025
Time: 9:00 AM –10:00 AM
Venue: SDE3 Level 4 LT 427
Resilient Urban Landscapes: GeoAI for Sustainable Growth and Climate Adaptation
As cities face increasing pressures from climate-related hazards, designing for resilience and sustainable growth requires a nuanced understanding of landscape transformations and their multifunctional roles. This seminar will discuss technological advancements and interdisciplinary insights that contribute to landscape planning for urban resilience. This includes the exploration of GeoAI for projecting how urban landscapes evolve, enabling us to anticipate the impacts of land development and strategically guide future development.
Building on these insights, leveraging data-driven approaches further enhances our ability to optimize the form and function of urban landscape to mitigate climate-related risks such as pluvial flooding. Beyond risk mitigation, urban landscape also serves multiple ecological, social, and economic functions. The seminar will further discuss how these multifunctional roles should be considered in facilitating the development of landscape planning strategies that balance urban growth with environmental sustainability.
Dr Yue Zhu is a scholar whose research lies at the intersection of urban ecology, geospatial data analysis, and machine learning. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and is currently based at the Singapore-ETH Centre, where she investigates pluvial flood mitigation and urban landscape multifunctionality. Dr Zhu holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, where she developed tailored GeoAI models to monitor and predict land cover changes, contributing to sustainable and resilient urban landscape planning. Prior to her PhD, she completed an MSc (Distinction) from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and was awarded the AAF Graduate School Prize for Design.
She supervises Master’s and PhD students at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and guides Master’s thesis projects at ETH Zurich in the field of data analytics for environmental sustainability. Additionally, she taught a skills module on applying deep learning for geospatial pattern analysis at UCL Bartlett.