Boqian Xu, PhD, PLA

Dr. Xu’s research focuses on Ecocities, Ecological Footprint, and Geo-design. He is committed to Ecological Footprint’s application in the planning realm – DESIGN the built environment to shape individual behaviors, reduce urban ecological footprints, and foster planetary sustainability. His research agenda centers on the Ecological Footprints of “neighborhoods,” a scale gap within existing ecological footprint studies. The goal is to transition Ecological Footprint’s research scale from “nation-city-individual” to “nation-city-neighborhood-individual”. Dr. Xu is currently constructing and analyzing global ecological/carbon footprint datasets at the neighborhood scale, with Python and open-source data platforms such as Google Earth Engine and OpenStreetMap.