Assessing San Antonio’s City Imageability Through Digital Mapping
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Nico Molina
Project period: 2024 – current
This study digitizes Kevin Lynch’s concept of urban imageability in San Antonio, exploring how its physical environment influences navigation and mental mapping. By mapping Lynch’s five elements—paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks—this research aims to provide insights into the city’s physical characteristics and overall imageability.
Evaluating the Free Tree Planting Program in San Antonio, Texas
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Roger Enriquez, Chris Reddick, Sam Rueda
Project period: 2022–2024 | Sponsor: City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Dept.
We explore the free tree planting program in San Antonio to identify spatial and socioeconomic patterns and conduct a survey to identify the root causes of low response rates in the past years.
Green Gentrification and Community-Based Organizations in San Antonio, Texas
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Natalie Bradford, Rhonda BeLue, Kenya Felder, Sam Rueda
Project period: 2023–2024
Walkable Environment and Heat Exposure in San Antonio, Texas
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Sam Rueda
Project period: 2023–2024
Is a walkable environment truly walkable? We examine the relationship between walkable built environments and heat levels in Texas and examine if socially vulnerable communities are more exposed to higher heat due to walkable neighborhood environments.
Neighborhood perception, physical disorders, and disaster preparedness behaviors
Team: Ryun Jung Lee
Project period: 2019 – 2023
This study examines the perception of the neighborhood environment in relation to risk perception and the effects on households’ disaster preparedness behaviors to answer the question: How and in what ways can the perception of neighborhood environment encourage disaster preparedness behaviors?
Community resilience to urban decline: the relationship between urban form and neighborhood satisfaction
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Sungmin Lee
Project period: 2021 – 2025 | Federal Statistical Research Data Center
The goal of this research is to investigate the role of urban form in promoting community resilience against the effects of urban decline using restricted Census data.
Flood buyouts, green infrastructure, and nearby property values in Harris County, Texas
Team: Ryun Jung Lee, Wayne Day, Alexander Abuabara, Galen Newman, and Walter Peacock
Project period: 2022 – 2023 | Sponsor: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
This project explores the indirect effects of land-based climate adaptation strategies by measuring the effects of floodplain buyout activity on nearby tax-assessed property values.
