Hanlin Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanlin Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanlin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0334-5322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Street characteristics and obesity: Evidence from Toronto and Greater Manchester using a scalable GeoAI framework
Obesity is increasingly recognised as being shaped by the built environment, yet evidence remains incomplete regarding how eye-level street characteristics relate to obesity across different urban contexts. This study examines how street-level environmental characteristics are associated with obesity prevalence and whether these relationships differ across urban contexts. Using Greater Manchester (UK) and Toronto (Canada) as comparative case stud…
A hierarchical network approach for analyzing scale-dependent coupling among policy-relevant dimensions of disaster governance
Casted: Calibrated anomaly-based spatial-temporal event detection framework for anomaly detection in resilience curves
Linking Streetscape Atmosphere with Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience
Social vulnerability and community resilience are essential frameworks for disaster risk management. Environmental perception quality also affects disaster outcomes by shaping social capital and postdisaster psychological recovery. As existing research seldom examines how perception quality is associated with the resilience–vulnerability system, however, practitioners cannot determine whether and how perception quality might interact with resilie…
Investigating the relationship between psychological stress and physical activity through individual-based geographic ecological momentary assessment
Physical Activity (PA) is known to buffer stress, yet evidence remains limited when examining real-time stress responses alongside objective measures of activity and environmental exposures in daily life. To address the gap, this study employs a Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) framework that integrates accelerometer, GPS tracking, and survey data. The primary objective of this study is to assess the association between self-repo…
Examining the Microlevel Impact of Medical Marijuana Legalization on Drug-Related Calls for Service
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States. The recent legalization of marijuana has shifted public opinion, which might affect how people report drug-related activities. Whereas some studies have investigated the issue at the city or larger scales, few have focused on a microlevel within a city. This study examined the spatiotemporal distribution of drug-related calls at the street segment level in Cincinnati, Ohio, from…
Associating the Visual Built Environment with Active Transport: An Analytical Approach Using Integrated Individual Behavior Data and Street Imagery
Active transport (AT) is a crucial source of health-enhancing physical activity (PA), and the visual built environment (VBE) can significantly influence people’s AT decisions. Street view imagery (SVI) has become widely used for large-scale measurement of the VBE. Previous SVI research, however, has often either focused on residential neighborhoods instead of actual travel routes or has focused on travel modes while neglecting the PA intensity in…
From alleys to arterial streets: Unpacking the influence of diverse street types and associated business on urban theft patterns
The impact of changing ambient population composition on crime during Covid-19 lockdowns
Governments around the world implemented social distancing measures and lockdowns to limit people's movement and stem the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. These restrictions have changed the ambient population and altered its racial composition. By analyzing trips between census block groups using data from SafeGraph, we calculate the ambient population and infer its racial makeup during pre-lockdown, lockdown, early-post lockdown, and lat…
Spatial Variations of the Broken Emotion Conjecture
Crime is not randomly distributed but tends to occur in specific spatial clusters. The literature has published many theories to explain its underlying causes. In recent years, scholars have increasingly leveraged social media big data to enrich our understanding of crime. Among these efforts is the Broken Emotion Conjecture, which offers a novel perspective on the connection between crime and emotion. However, how this connection varies among cr…
Assessing the impact of modern streetcar on street robbery at street segment level: A longitudinal comparison in Cincinnati, OH
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling
Examining the relationship between active transport and exposure to streetscape diversity during travel: A study using GPS data and street view imagery
Active transport (AT)—physical activity (PA) during travel—can promote human health. Among built environment factors related to travel research, design refers to the street network features encouraging AT. The advent of street view images (SVIs) presents the potential to measure design during travel by capturing the eye-level built environments. Benefited by SVIs, this study innovatively introduces streetscape diversity—the interconnection of str…
Are villages in the city and segregation associated with crime in Chinese cities? An assessment of burglary in ZG city using satellite images and big data
A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
Perceived safety of the built environment—a cognitive assessment different from emotional fear of crime—might affect the number of potential crime victims in an area and thus affect crime opportunities. The perceived safety derived from street view imagery has propelled scholars to examine its relationship with crime. The literature, however, has not addressed the related geographic scale variability issue; that is, the choice of the geographic a…
Measuring perceived racial heterogeneity and its impact on crime: An ambient population-based approach
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach
Are Crime and Collective Emotion Interrelated? A “Broken Emotion” Conjecture from Community Twitter Posts
A neighborhood’s social cohesion, referring to the emotional and social connection of people within it, tends to have an influential impact on its crime level. Traditional approaches to measuring social cohesion and collective efficacy are mostly interviews and surveys, which are usually costly in time, money, and other resources. Big social media data provides us with a new and cost-effective source of such information. We believe the combinatio…
Agglomerative Effects of Crime Attractors and Generators on Street Robbery? An Assessment by Luojia 1-01 Satellite Nightlight
Scholars have long confirmed the agglomerative effect in retail geography. The colocation of multiple shops would encourage customers to make multiple stops in a single shopping trip. Does the agglomerative effect exist in illegal activities such as crime? What is a viable measurement of the colocation of facilities that attract or generate crime? These questions have never been explicitly addressed in crime geography. Numerous studies explain cr…
Using Google Street View imagery to capture micro built environment characteristics in drug places, compared with street robbery
Chemical composition and anti-inflammatory activity of n-butanol extract of Piper sarmentosum Roxb. In the intestinal porcine epithelial cells (Ipec-J2)
Assessing the Impact of Street-View Greenery on Fear of Neighborhood Crime in Guangzhou, China
Previous literature has examined the relationship between the amount of green space and perceived safety in urban areas, but little is known about the effect of street-view neighborhood greenery on perceived neighborhood safety. Using a deep learning approach, we derived greenery from a massive set of street view images in central Guangzhou. We further tested the relationships and mechanisms between street-view greenery and fear of crime in the n…
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities
This article examines whether different levels of entry controls impact burglary rates in gated communities. It differs from the previous studies that only distinguish gated communities from non-gated communities but ignore important variation in different levels of entry controls. A sample of 698 gated communities in a large Chinese city are selected for this study. A negative binomial regression model estimates the relationships between entry c…
The Spatial Heterogeneity of Factors of Drug Dealing: A Case Study from ZG, China
Drug addiction and drug-related crime caused by drug dealing are serious problems for many countries. Such problems have gained urgency in China during recent years. However, there has been no research on the relationship between drug dealing and associated factors and its variation over space at a fine scale, such as the police station management area (PSMA), in China. Based on a seven-year data set obtained in ZG city, China, a geographically w…
Linking Luojia 1-01 nightlight imagery to urban crime
A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
Perceived safety of the built environment—a cognitive assessment different from emotional fear of crime—might affect the number of potential crime victims in an area and thus affect crime opportunities. The perceived safety derived from street view imagery has propelled scholars to examine its relationship with crime. The literature, however, has not addressed the related geographic scale variability issue; that is, the choice of the geographic a…
Measuring perceived racial heterogeneity and its impact on crime: An ambient population-based approach
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities
This article examines whether different levels of entry controls impact burglary rates in gated communities. It differs from the previous studies that only distinguish gated communities from non-gated communities but ignore important variation in different levels of entry controls. A sample of 698 gated communities in a large Chinese city are selected for this study. A negative binomial regression model estimates the relationships between entry c…
Assessing the Intraday Variation of the Spillover Effect of Tweets-Derived Ambient Population on Crime
The spatial pattern of geotagged tweets reflects the dynamic distribution of the ambient population during day and night as a result of people’s routine activities. A few studies have assessed the impact of tweets-derived ambient population on crime and the spillover effect of such impact at different spatial and temporal scales. However, none has revealed the intraday variation of such spillover effect. This study analyzes both the direct and sp…
Agglomerative Effects of Crime Attractors and Generators on Street Robbery? An Assessment by Luojia 1-01 Satellite Nightlight
Scholars have long confirmed the agglomerative effect in retail geography. The colocation of multiple shops would encourage customers to make multiple stops in a single shopping trip. Does the agglomerative effect exist in illegal activities such as crime? What is a viable measurement of the colocation of facilities that attract or generate crime? These questions have never been explicitly addressed in crime geography. Numerous studies explain cr…
Are Crime and Collective Emotion Interrelated? A “Broken Emotion” Conjecture from Community Twitter Posts
A neighborhood’s social cohesion, referring to the emotional and social connection of people within it, tends to have an influential impact on its crime level. Traditional approaches to measuring social cohesion and collective efficacy are mostly interviews and surveys, which are usually costly in time, money, and other resources. Big social media data provides us with a new and cost-effective source of such information. We believe the combinatio…
Are villages in the city and segregation associated with crime in Chinese cities? An assessment of burglary in ZG city using satellite images and big data
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach
The Spatial Heterogeneity of Factors of Drug Dealing: A Case Study from ZG, China
Drug addiction and drug-related crime caused by drug dealing are serious problems for many countries. Such problems have gained urgency in China during recent years. However, there has been no research on the relationship between drug dealing and associated factors and its variation over space at a fine scale, such as the police station management area (PSMA), in China. Based on a seven-year data set obtained in ZG city, China, a geographically w…
Linking Luojia 1-01 nightlight imagery to urban crime
Assessing the Intraday Variation of the Spillover Effect of Tweets-Derived Ambient Population on Crime
The spatial pattern of geotagged tweets reflects the dynamic distribution of the ambient population during day and night as a result of people’s routine activities. A few studies have assessed the impact of tweets-derived ambient population on crime and the spillover effect of such impact at different spatial and temporal scales. However, none has revealed the intraday variation of such spillover effect. This study analyzes both the direct and sp…
Using Google Street View imagery to capture micro built environment characteristics in drug places, compared with street robbery
Chemical composition and anti-inflammatory activity of n-butanol extract of Piper sarmentosum Roxb. In the intestinal porcine epithelial cells (Ipec-J2)
Assessing the Impact of Street-View Greenery on Fear of Neighborhood Crime in Guangzhou, China
Previous literature has examined the relationship between the amount of green space and perceived safety in urban areas, but little is known about the effect of street-view neighborhood greenery on perceived neighborhood safety. Using a deep learning approach, we derived greenery from a massive set of street view images in central Guangzhou. We further tested the relationships and mechanisms between street-view greenery and fear of crime in the n…
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities
This article examines whether different levels of entry controls impact burglary rates in gated communities. It differs from the previous studies that only distinguish gated communities from non-gated communities but ignore important variation in different levels of entry controls. A sample of 698 gated communities in a large Chinese city are selected for this study. A negative binomial regression model estimates the relationships between entry c…
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach
Are Crime and Collective Emotion Interrelated? A “Broken Emotion” Conjecture from Community Twitter Posts
A neighborhood’s social cohesion, referring to the emotional and social connection of people within it, tends to have an influential impact on its crime level. Traditional approaches to measuring social cohesion and collective efficacy are mostly interviews and surveys, which are usually costly in time, money, and other resources. Big social media data provides us with a new and cost-effective source of such information. We believe the combinatio…
Agglomerative Effects of Crime Attractors and Generators on Street Robbery? An Assessment by Luojia 1-01 Satellite Nightlight
Scholars have long confirmed the agglomerative effect in retail geography. The colocation of multiple shops would encourage customers to make multiple stops in a single shopping trip. Does the agglomerative effect exist in illegal activities such as crime? What is a viable measurement of the colocation of facilities that attract or generate crime? These questions have never been explicitly addressed in crime geography. Numerous studies explain cr…
Measuring perceived racial heterogeneity and its impact on crime: An ambient population-based approach
Examining the relationship between active transport and exposure to streetscape diversity during travel: A study using GPS data and street view imagery
Active transport (AT)—physical activity (PA) during travel—can promote human health. Among built environment factors related to travel research, design refers to the street network features encouraging AT. The advent of street view images (SVIs) presents the potential to measure design during travel by capturing the eye-level built environments. Benefited by SVIs, this study innovatively introduces streetscape diversity—the interconnection of str…
Are villages in the city and segregation associated with crime in Chinese cities? An assessment of burglary in ZG city using satellite images and big data
A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
Perceived safety of the built environment—a cognitive assessment different from emotional fear of crime—might affect the number of potential crime victims in an area and thus affect crime opportunities. The perceived safety derived from street view imagery has propelled scholars to examine its relationship with crime. The literature, however, has not addressed the related geographic scale variability issue; that is, the choice of the geographic a…
From alleys to arterial streets: Unpacking the influence of diverse street types and associated business on urban theft patterns
The impact of changing ambient population composition on crime during Covid-19 lockdowns
Governments around the world implemented social distancing measures and lockdowns to limit people's movement and stem the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. These restrictions have changed the ambient population and altered its racial composition. By analyzing trips between census block groups using data from SafeGraph, we calculate the ambient population and infer its racial makeup during pre-lockdown, lockdown, early-post lockdown, and lat…
Spatial Variations of the Broken Emotion Conjecture
Crime is not randomly distributed but tends to occur in specific spatial clusters. The literature has published many theories to explain its underlying causes. In recent years, scholars have increasingly leveraged social media big data to enrich our understanding of crime. Among these efforts is the Broken Emotion Conjecture, which offers a novel perspective on the connection between crime and emotion. However, how this connection varies among cr…
Assessing the impact of modern streetcar on street robbery at street segment level: A longitudinal comparison in Cincinnati, OH
Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling
Street characteristics and obesity: Evidence from Toronto and Greater Manchester using a scalable GeoAI framework
Obesity is increasingly recognised as being shaped by the built environment, yet evidence remains incomplete regarding how eye-level street characteristics relate to obesity across different urban contexts. This study examines how street-level environmental characteristics are associated with obesity prevalence and whether these relationships differ across urban contexts. Using Greater Manchester (UK) and Toronto (Canada) as comparative case stud…
A hierarchical network approach for analyzing scale-dependent coupling among policy-relevant dimensions of disaster governance
Casted: Calibrated anomaly-based spatial-temporal event detection framework for anomaly detection in resilience curves
Linking Streetscape Atmosphere with Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience
Social vulnerability and community resilience are essential frameworks for disaster risk management. Environmental perception quality also affects disaster outcomes by shaping social capital and postdisaster psychological recovery. As existing research seldom examines how perception quality is associated with the resilience–vulnerability system, however, practitioners cannot determine whether and how perception quality might interact with resilie…
Investigating the relationship between psychological stress and physical activity through individual-based geographic ecological momentary assessment
Physical Activity (PA) is known to buffer stress, yet evidence remains limited when examining real-time stress responses alongside objective measures of activity and environmental exposures in daily life. To address the gap, this study employs a Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) framework that integrates accelerometer, GPS tracking, and survey data. The primary objective of this study is to assess the association between self-repo…
Examining the Microlevel Impact of Medical Marijuana Legalization on Drug-Related Calls for Service
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States. The recent legalization of marijuana has shifted public opinion, which might affect how people report drug-related activities. Whereas some studies have investigated the issue at the city or larger scales, few have focused on a microlevel within a city. This study examined the spatiotemporal distribution of drug-related calls at the street segment level in Cincinnati, Ohio, from…
Geography (16 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)