Bo Yang

Interests

Teaching

Design studio, landscape performance, environmental spatial analysis, landscape planning

Research

Green infrastructure and stormwater management, landscape performance, environmental planning and technology, community planning and design, water related ordinances, and landscape history and theory in China and East Asia.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Canfield, J., Yang, B., & Whitlow, H. (2019). Evaluating Landscape Performance: A Guidebook for Metrics and Methods Selection. Landscape Architecture Foundation.
• Yang, B., & Young, R. F. (2019). Ecological Wisdom: Theory and Practice. Springer. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0571-9
• Yang, B. (2018). Landscape Research Record 7. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
• Yang, B. o. (2018). Landscape Performance: Ian McHarg’s ecological planning in The Woodlands, Texas. Routledge.
• Yang, B. (2017). Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2017 Conference Proceedings. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
• Yang, B. (2017). Landscape Research Record 6. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Chapters

• Yang, B., Li, S., Xiang, W., Bishop, I., Liao, K., & Liu, J. (2019). Where Does Ecological Wisdom Come from? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. In Ecological Wisdom: Theory and Practice. Springer. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0571-9_3

Journals/Publications

• Meixner, T., Murrieta-Saldivar, J., Yang, B., Henry, A. D., Lena, B., Mastler, M., Gupta, N., Pavao-Zuckerman, M., Zuniga Teran, A. A., Shipek, C., Thomure, T., Elder, A., & Gerlak, A. K. (2021). Green infrastructure: Lessons in governance and collaboration from Tucson. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63(3). doi:10.1080/00139157.2021.1898894
• Cheng, M., Dai, F., & Yang, B. (2020). Spatiotemporal variations of PM2. 5 concentration at the neighborhood level in five Chinese megacities. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 11, 190-202.
• Yang, B. (2020). Landscape Performance Evaluation for Socio-Ecological Practice: Current Status and Prospects. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 2, 91–104.
• Chen, M., Fei, D., Yang, B., & Zhu, S. (2019). Assessing the effects of urban green infrastructure morphological pattern on PM2.5 in the neighborhoods of five Chinese megacities. Building and Environment, 158, 1-15.
• Cheng, M., Dai, F., Yang, B., & Zhu, S. (2019). Evaluating the effects of neighborhood green space on PM2.5 mitigation: Evidence from five megacities in China. Building and Environment, 156, 33-45.
• Flint, C., Jackson-Smith, D., Yang, B., & Dean, T. (2019). Transdisciplinary Socio-Scientific Practice: Lessons Learned from Social and Engineering Water Science. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 1(1), 55-66.
• Yang, B. (2019). Blending project goals and performance goals in ecological planning: Ian McHarg’s contributions to landscape performance evaluation. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 1, 209-225.
• Yang, B. (2019). Landscape Performance Assessment for Socio-Ecological Practice: Current Status and Prospects. Socio-Ecological Practice Research. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-019-00039-x
• Fang, C., LeBleu, C., Zhao, H., Liu, S., & Yang, B. (2018). Vision, Pattern, Focus: Research Frontiers of Stormwater Management in 2017 CELA Conference. Modern Urban Research.
• Yang, B., & Fang, C. (2018). Editorial: Urban stormwater management. Modern Urban Research.
• Yang, B., Mesner, N., Drew, M., & Durfee, D. (2018). Integrated teaching and practice: Green infrastructure plan and green roof performance in a semi-arid campus environment, USA. Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
• Yang, B., Mesner, N., Drew, M., & Durfee, D. (2018). Rain as a Resource: Green infrastructure design and performance at campus setting, USA. Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 6(5), 44-59.
• Dai, F., Jiang, J., & Yang, B. (2017). Research frontiers of GIS applications in landscape and urban planning. Chinese Landscape Architecture, 33(260), 52-58.
• Fang, C., & Yang, B. (2017). Modern Christian Landscapes in Nanjing, China: A Literature Review. Sustainability, 9, 2155. doi:10.3390/su9112155
• Fang, C., Li, J., & Yang, B. (2017). Study on the War Landscape Heritage from Collective Memory Perspective: A Case Study of the Landscape Heritage of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Nanjing. Modern Urban Research, 7, 22-30.
• Yang, Y., Yang, B., & Li, W. (2017). Assessing historical flooded areas and city comprehensive plans in Nanjing, China. Hundred Schools in Arts, 266-267.

Presentations

• Engineer, A. A., Son, Y., Li, S., Yang, B., & Sternberg, E. M. (2020, November). DASH-SAFE: A personal real-time risk-assessment, risk-management, navigation and automated alarm tool.. COVID-19 Symposium, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (Virtual)..
• Engineer, A. A., Son, Y., Li, S., Yang, B., & Sternberg, E. M. (2020, September). DASH-SAFE: A Multi-Modal GIS-based Real-Time COVID Risk Assessment, Management, & Navigation Tool. Restruct Built Environment Research Symposium: Mid-Pandemic Adaptation,. Virtual.
• Li, S., & Yang, B. (2019, April). Place sensing for place making: a review on social media in landscape planning and design. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington DC.
• Li, S., & Yang, B. (2019, January). Ecological Planning as a Tool for Urban Flood Resilience: Lessons from Community Developments in the Houston Region. The 99th American Meteorological Society Conference. Phoenix, Arizona.
• Li, S., & Yang, B. (2019, May). Social Benefits Assessment: Comparing Project Goals with Outcomes. 2019 CELA conference.
• Li, S., Yang, B., & Luo, Y. (2019, May). Doing Real and Permanent Good: Examining Landscape Performance Benefits from an Ecological Wisdom Perspective. 2019 CELA conference.
• Li, S., & Yang, B. (2018, March). From Design with Nature to Geodesign: The Evolution of GIS in Landscape Architecture. The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.