Y D Wei

Biographic Data

ID22167
NAMEY D Wei
GIVEN NAMESY D
FAMILY NAMEWei
SIGNATUREWEI Y D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Utah
ORCID0000-0002-8510-388X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS154
TOTAL CITATIONS1257
AUTHOR COUNT154
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX20

  • Does industrial digital transition improve urban land use efficiency? Evidence from Chinese cities

    Open AccessJing Shen, Chenghui Lin et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2026

    Economic and institutional forces are considered as key determinants of urban land use efficiency (ULUE), while the role of technological change has received insufficient attention. This study examines whether industrial digital transition (IDT) enhances ULUE across 281 prefecture-level cities in China. We measure both IDT and ULUE and employ spatial Durbin and mediation models to identify the effects of IDT on ULUE. The results indicate that bot…

  • Urban sprawl, natural environments, and mortality inequality

    Open AccessY D Wei, Yu Wang et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2026

    Mortality patterns exhibit substantial spatial variation, yet potential geographic influences are not well-understood. This study develops an integrated framework to investigate how urban sprawl and natural environments contribute to county-level all-cause mortality risk and to examine intergenerational mobility (IM) as a mediator. The analysis incorporates machine learning and spatial regression methods with U.S. county data. Using a small-area …

  • Neighborhood Context, Divine Struggles, and Psychological Distress

    Open AccessT D Hill, Pui Yin Cheung et al.ARTICLESociety and Mental Health2026

    Although researchers have consistently linked structural neighborhood disadvantage with poorer mental health, they continue to search for underlying mechanisms. In this article, we test whether the association between structural neighborhood disadvantage and psychological distress is mediated by perceived neighborhood disorder and divine struggles. Using longitudinal national survey data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 2 and 3) study…

  • Neighborhood walkability and intergenerational mobility

    Open AccessY D Wei, Ning XiongARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2026

  • Spatial Inequality and Shared Accessibility in the Fifteen-Minute Community Life Circle

    Yue Li, Li Yue et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2026References: 80

    The fifteen-minute community life circle (15-MCLC) paradigm has emerged as a pivotal policy instrument for sustainable urban development through optimized public facility allocation. Existing studies, however, focus mainly on community boundaries and accessibility, frequently neglecting the critical issue of cross-community facility sharing, which hinders effective resource integration. To address this gap, we propose a comprehensive 15-MCLC fram…

  • Urban equity of park use in peri-urban areas during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessYangyi Wu, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025

  • Technological Innovation and Industrial Development in China

    Open AccessDandan Li, Y D WeiARTICLETijdschrift voor Economische en…2025References: 82

    This paper analyzes the impact of technological innovation on industrial development through a study of patent‐intensive industry (PII) in the Yangtze River Delta, China, with the following findings: (1) Technological innovation in PII has greatly improved and has evolved from agglomeration to dispersion. Moreover, the spatial inequality of technological innovation in PII is significant, with Suzhou replacing Shanghai as the core. (2) The develop…

  • Urban Sprawl and Subjective Well-Being

    Yu Wang, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025References: 65

    Subjective well-being (SWB) has recently gained significant attention as an important indicator of measuring quality of life. Based on the Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index, this study analyzes the spatial distribution characteristic of county-level SWB across the United States. We apply multiple linear regression, structural equation modeling (SEM), and geographically weighted SEM to identify the overall effects of urban sprawl on SWB, examin…

  • Neighborhood intergenerational mobility and population health inequality

    Open AccessNing Xiong, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025References: 8

  • Teleworking, social capital, and subjective well-being

    Open AccessYu Wang, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLECities2025References: 5

  • Economic inequality, intergenerational mobility, and life expectancy

    Open AccessNing Xiong, Y D WeiARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Cited by: 1References: 64

  • Spatial Social Polarization and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence and Incidence

    Open AccessEthan Siu Leung Cheung, David S Curtis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2025References: 64

    This study examines the spatial polarization of income and racial-ethnic groups as predictors of prevalent and incident cardiometabolic disease and tests the extent to which local environmental features act as mediators. Spatial income and racial polarization are defined using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes. Using two waves of data from the Midlife in the United States study, generalized Poisson regression model results indicate that …

  • Domesticating sustainability transitions

    Open AccessJing Shen, Lu Cui et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024

  • Daily Flows, Urban Polycentricity, and Transit Commuting Patterns

    Open AccessJiaying Guo, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2024

    Employment center locations, the jobs-housing relationship, and commuting patterns are inextricably connected in a megacity that heavily relies on the urban transit system to shuttle commuters. Using a transit smartcard dataset, a machine learning method is employed as a preliminary filter to sift through commuter flows and isolate key data, then kernel density and topological analysis methods are implemented to delve into the primary research qu…

  • Urban sprawl and racial inequality in intergenerational mobility

    Open AccessN Xiong, Y D Wei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2024Cited by: 3References: 25

    Persistent racial inequality in socioeconomic status within urban areas has been a significant concern in both the US and European countries. Differences across racial groups in intergenerational mobility (IM) have been identified as a key source of this persistence. However, efforts to understand racial inequality in IM have rarely considered the role of urban sprawl. This article argues that urban sprawl affects differences in IM between racial…

  • Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility

    Open AccessY D Wei, Ning XiongARTICLECities2024References: 77

  • Foreign trade, foreign direct investment, and urban inequality

    Yu Wang, Y D WeiARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2024References: 2

    The concentration of population and socioeconomic activities in large cities in developing countries has sparked broad concerns regarding inequality in national urban systems (NUS). This paper examines how Chinese foreign trade and overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI) affected host countries' NUS from 2000 to 2018. Chinese foreign trade reduced NUS inequality, particularly countries with more cultural distance from China, while OFDI increase…

  • Institutions, urban space, and residential markets in globalizing Shanghai

    Y D Wei, Yangyi Wu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2024References: 5

    China's skyrocketing residential market has raised concerns about housing affordability in metropolitan areas. Current literature usually overlooks the various mechanisms between sale and rent, which may unfold more fundamental structural forces beyond housing location and attributes. This study constructs an analytical framework to investigate how global, regional, and local development contexts, including institutional forces, urban spatial str…

  • GLOBAL-Local DRIVING Forces of CHINA'S GREENING of INDUSTRY

    Open AccessJing Shen, Lu Cui et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2024References: 55

    The greening of industry is an inevitable path for developing economies to achieve sustainability transition. However, the specific roles of global and local driving forces are still not substantially understood. This study develops a three-dimensional framework, which includes coercive pressures, normative pressures, and technology acquisition to analyze the influence of global and local drivers on China’s greening of industry. We measure the in…

  • Centring or suburbanization? Changing locations of producer services in Shanghai

    Open AccessY D Wei, Weiye Xiao et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2024References: 54

    Producer services are a critical indicator of global cities in advanced economies, whose spatial-temporal dynamics reflect the trajectory of urban transformation. However, the growth of producer services in China cannot be fully explained by current theories (e.g. neoclassical, institutional, global city and human capital theories), especially regarding their development process and geographical contexts. This study developed a context-sensitive …

  • Heterogeneous mechanisms of urban land price in China

    Open AccessFeng Yuan, Weiye Xiao et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2023

    Analyzing how the underlying mechanism influences land value changes is essential to understanding the land market, which contributes to sustainable urbanization. Drawing upon a land transaction dataset, we analyze the determinants of urban land prices from 2008 to 2020, considering land supply and demands, with particular attention to natural restrictions and government interventions in China. The statistical analysis suggests that the inequalit…

  • Urban space, sprawl, and intergenerational mobility

    Open AccessY D Wei, Ning Xiong et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2023

  • Covid-19, cities and inequality

    Open AccessHan Li, Y D WeiARTICLEApplied Geography2023

  • Assess the non-linear relationship between built environment and active travel around light-rail transit stations

    Open AccessWeiye Xiao, Y D WeiARTICLEApplied Geography2023

  • De-Centering ‘Spatial Fix’ - Patterns of Territorialization and Regional Technological Dynamism of ICT Hubs in China

    Yu Zhou, Yifei Sun et al.

    [This paper critically assesses Harvey’s “spatial fix” thesis through systematically comparing the spatial patterns and dynamics of three key regions of China’s information and communication industry (ICT). The divergent territorialization is analyzed by broadening the concepts of global pipelines and local buzz to the context of developing countries. The research is based on a large-scale survey conducted in 2006–7 in three mega-city regions of …