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Program

Key events:

19 June: Cocktail reception @ 6:30pm - McGill Faculty Club

20 June: Conference dinner @ 6:30pm - McGill Faculty Club

20 June: Plenary with keynote speaker (Bianca Wylie)

21 June: Plenary panel discussion - CUPUM in Evolution

22 June: Plenary panel discussion - CUPUM According to ChatGPT

22 June: Workshops 

23 June: Field trips

CUPUM DAY 1: 20 June 2023

 

8:30 - 10:00 | KEYNOTE (Day 1) (Moyse Hall, Arts Building)

  • Necessary Friction(s): Urban Technology and Public Compliance, Resistance, and Reliance
    R
    eorganizing the Computational Futures of Cities,
    Bianca Wylie

10:30 - 11:32 | SESSION 1 (Day 1)

Track 1: Planning Support (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Integrating Modelling, Simulation and Data Management Tools to Create a Planning Support System for the Improvement of Air Quality by Urban Planning Solutions - Joanna Badach

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-based Tourism Support System - Yudai Kato, Kayoko Yamamoto

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Assisting Urban Infrastructure Renewal: An Analytical Platform Integrating Urban Big Data and Geospatial Tool - Xiaoyu Chen, Changyu Chen, Jingfen Wu, Yu Ye

 

Track 2: Active + Air Mobility (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Using Public Data to Assess Bike-sharing Systems Operational Strategies - Gustavo Gonçalves Oliveira, Antônio Nélson Rodrigues da Silva

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Understanding Bikeability: Insight Into the Cycling-City Relationship Using Massive Dockless Bike Sharing Records - Enjia Zhang, Wanting Hsu, Ying Long, Scott Hawken

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Urban Airspace Route Planning for Advanced Air Mobility Operations - Xi Wang, Perry Pei-Ju Yang, Michael Balchanos, Dimitri Mavris

 

Track 3: Urban Climate 1 (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Study Regarding the Relationship Between Air Temperature Distribution and Physical Environment Factors in the Densely Built-up Area of Bangkok - Umpika Mettatam, Ngamsiriudom Tarnrawee, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

  • 10:51 - 11:11 A Computational Workflow for Analyzing Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Spaces: findings from an Urban Canyon Case Study - Daniel Conforte, Sabrina Barbosa, Fernando Lima

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Comparing the Urban Ventilation Characteristics between the Old and New Central Business Districts of Bangkok, Thailand: Field measurement in Yaowarat district and Ratchadamri district in 2022 - Tarnrawee Ngamsiriudom, Umpika Mettatam, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

 

Track 4: Simulation 1 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

 

11:33 - 11:49 | BREAK  

 

11:50 - 12:52 | SESSION 2 (Day 1)

Track 1: Land and Housing 1 (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Development of a Tool for the Rapid Analysis of Land Value Impacts in Rezoning Scenarios - Reg Wade, Chris Pettit

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Urban Growth Modeling for Wildlife Habitat Conservation - Shujuan Li

  • 12:32 - 12:52 Spatial Equity in U.S. Cities: An Evaluation and Comparison of Equity Tools - Niko McGlashan, Daniela Coray, Sarah Williams, Rohun Iyer

 

Track 2: Micromobility 1 (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Shared Micro-mobility: A Panacea or a Patch to Urban Transport? - Zhenpeng Zou

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Disclosing the Impact of Perceived Environment Characteristics on Dockless Bikeshare Trip Volume: A Case Study of Ithaca - Qiwei Song, Wenjing Li, Jintai Li, Xinran Wei, Waishan Qiu

  • 12:32 - 12:52 Service Region and Capacity Design for Bike-sharing Systems: a Data-driven Risk-Averse Robust Decision Model - Zichun Liu, Yan Zhang

 

Track 3: Urban Climate 2 (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Study on the Impact of Green Space Placement on Heat and Wind Environment and its Mapping Using Meso-scale Model WRF - Kaoru Matsuo, Sumire Nakamoto, Shigeaki Takeda, Hiroyuki Kaga

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Potential Evaluations of Measures to Improve the Thermal Environment of Outdoor Spaces in the Urban Central Area of Hiroshima – Comparing Public and Private Lands - Naoya Kutsuna, Tomoya Migitera, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

  • 12:32 - 12:52 Application of Time-series Analysis To Urban Climate Change Assessment - Huimin Liu, Qingming Zhan, Yinghui Xiaoi

 

Track 4: Simulation 2 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Agent-Based Decision Support for Social Media Influence in Urban Planning - Yanliu Lin, Myrthe Hemker, Neghah Hosseini Ojagh, Pinar Yolum Birbil

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Integrating Reinforcement Learning into Agent-Based Model for Simulating the Grocery Stores Choices of Urban Customers - Duo Zhang, Raja Sengupta

  • 12:32 - 12:52 Modelling the Impacts of Accessibility to Safe Injection Sites for People Who Inject Drugs on Usage and Mitigation of Overdoses - Shahab Valaei Sharif, Dawn Parker

12:53 - 14:29 | LUNCH

14:30 - 15:32 | SESSION 3 (Day 1)

Track 1: Land and Housing 2 (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 14:30 - 14:50 Applying Spatial Clustering Algorithms To Find Discrepancies In Property Databases - Lara Sucupira Furtado, Virginia Queiroz, Vladia Pinheiro

  • 14:51 - 15:11 Residential Development and Sustainable Travel Patterns in the London Region 2011-22: The Widening Price Gap for Sustainable Housing - Duncan A. Smith

  • 15:12 - 15:32 Exploring the Intervention of Local Government Financing Vehicles in the Land Market in China - Shan Yu, Li Wan

 

Track 2: Networks, COVID + Sustainability (Room 260, Arts Building)

 

Track 3: Urban Climate 3 (Room W-215, Arts Building)

 

Track 4: Simulation 3 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 14:30 - 14:50 Policy Testing in Land Use Forecasts: Evaluating Affordable Housing Development through Microsimulation - Elizabeth Theocharides

  • 14:51 - 15:11 Mobility Profiles Identification Using Machine Learning Techniques - Yassamina Berkane, Leïla Kloul, Yoann Demoli

  • 15:12 - 15:32 A Data-driven Approach for Real-time Detection of Water-use Anomaly Using Smart Water Meter Data - Gopika Rajan, Shahram Sattar, Songnian Li

15:33 - 15:49 | BREAK

15:50 - 16:52 | SESSION 4 (Day 1)

Track 1: Urban Growth + Shrinkage (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Interactive Dashboard to Characterize Urban Sprawl in Latin America based on SLEUTH - Gonzalo Peraza-Mues, Roberto Ponce-Lopez, José Antonio Torre, Antonio Vazquez, Carolina Piedrafita

  • 16:11 - 16:31 Spatial Variation of Local Population Distribution in the Urban Shrinking Process - Kiichiro Kumagai, Haruka Tokoi

  • 16:32 - 16:52 Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis from the Perspective of Data Distribution: An Eigenvector Spatial Filtering-based Spatially Varying Quantile Regression Model - Zhan Peng, Ryo Inoue

Track 2: Walkability (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Automatic Evaluation of Street-level Walkability Based on Computer Vision Techniques and Urban Big Data - Lu Huang, Takuya Oki, Sachio Muto, Hongjik Kim, Yoshiki Ogawa, Yoshihide Sekimoto

  • 16:11 - 16:31 Applying the AURIN Walkability Index at the Metropolitan and Local Levels by Sex and Age in Australia - Arsham Bassiri Abyaneh, Andrew Allan, Johannes Pieters, Sekhar Somenahalli, Ali Soltani

  • 16:32 - 16:52 A Planning Support System for Boosting Bikeability in Seoul - Madiha Bencekri, Donggyun Ku, Seungjae Lee, Doyun Lee

 

Track 3: Green Space + Hazards (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Using the Activity-Based Metronamica to Simulate Dynamic Exposure Profile and Support Disaster Risk Reduction - Hedwig van Delden, Raffaele Giordano, Margherita Ascari, Arnout Van Soesbergen, Roel Vanhout

  • 16:11 - 16:31 Urban Supply Network Dynamic Invulnerability Re-search Based on Cascading Failure Concerning Dynamic Demand of Citizens - Hao Huang, Junchao Wang, Miaoxi Zhao, Wenchu Zhang, Zipei Zhen

  • 16:32 - 16:52 A Study on the Impact of Different Locations of Rice Paddy Dams on Flood Damage Reduction - Toward the Introduction of Rice Paddy Dams to the Right Place in Kurose River Basin - Taisei Moriyama, Daiki Shiromoto, Mitihiro Matuura, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

Track 4: Imagery for Planning (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 "Eyes on the Street": Estimating Natural Surveillance Along City Streets Using Street-level Imagery - Timo van Asten, Vasileios Milias, Alessandro Bozzon, Achilleas Psyllidis

  • 16:11 - 16:31 A Geometric Approach for Detecting Unregulated On-Street Parking based on a Sequence of Street View Images - Uijeong Hwang, Bon Woo Koo, Subhrajit Guhathakurta

  • 16:32 - 16:52 Road Detection for Post-Disaster Using Twitter Image Data and Deep Learning Considering Earthquake - Eda Tsujimoto, Sunyong Eom, Tsutomu Suzuki

 

CUPUM DAY 2: 21 June 2023

 

9:00 - 10:00 | PANEL 1 (Day 2) (Moyse Hall, Arts Building)

  • CUPUM in Evolution - Joanna Badach (Gdansk University of Technology), Mike Batty (University College London), Joe Ferreira (MIT), Marketta Kyttä (Aalto University), Chris Pettit (Carleton University), Qingming Zhan (Wuhan University), Xinyue Ye (moderator) (Texas A&M University)

 

10:30 - 11:32 | SESSION 1 (Day 2)

Track 1: Planning for Community (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Easy as child’s play? Co-designing a Network-Based Metric for Children’s Access to Play Space - Roos Teeuwen, Achilleas Psyllidis

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Co-designing and Mapping for Accessible Cities: A Cross-disability Project in Zwolle, The Netherlands - Johannes Flacke, Fenna Hoefsloot, Karin Pfeffer

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Basic Research to Reconsider the Planning Area Based on the Analysis of Actual Usage of Long-term Care ―A Case Study of Three Cities in Tochigi Prefecture: α-city, β-city, and γ-city - Kurumi Takezawa, Eiji Satoh

 

Track 2: Transport Methods (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Integrating Big Data and a Travel Survey to Understand the Gender Gap in Ride-hailing Usage: Evidence from Chengdu, China - Si Qiao, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Mengzhu Zhang

  • 10:51 - 11:11 A Comparison of Electric and Non-Electric Bike Sharing in Montréal, Canada - Grant McKenzie

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Characterizing Urban Mobility Based on Transit-oriented Development (TOD) Features in the Twin Cities Region of Minnesota: A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Using GPS-based Travel Survey Data - Qianchuan Li, Marta González

Track 3: Hazard Resilience (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Verification of Flood Control Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure Conversion of Low-utilized Land - Shinji Hirai, Ryota Araki, Riki Yamaga, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Disaster Prevention Learning Support System Focusing on Household Stockpiles - Yuki Shirahama, Kayoko Yamamoto

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Self-guided Natural Education Opportunities Triggered by Plant Identification Apps in Public Parks Within Central Guangzhou, China - Yixin Wu

 

Track 4: Three-Dimensional Planning 1 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 A 3D Agent-Based Model for Simulating Parcel Level Urban Redevelopment in Toronto, Canada - Richard Burke, Raja Sengupta, Alistair Ford

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Participants’ Experiences of Hybrid Public Participation, Case Viiskorpi Framework Plan, Espoo, Finland - Pilvi Nummi, Eveliina Harsia, Saana Rossi, Aija Staffans

  • 11:12 - 11:32 3D Dashboard Development for Smart Campus using ESRI Enterprise & Cesium Platforms - Shahram Sattar, Peyman Azari, Gopika Rajan, Songnian Li

 

11:33 - 11:49 | BREAK 

 

11:50 - 12:52 | SESSION 2 (Day 2)

Track 1: Planning Strategy 1 (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 The Role of Urban Analytics in Strategic Planning – A Case Study of the Greater Sydney Region Plan - Claire Daniel, Christopher Pettit

  • 12:11 - 12:31 The Long Road to Digital Transformation - Wayne Williamson

  • 12:32 - 12:51 Augmented Urban Planning: A Framework for Strategic Urban Planning - Shervin Azadi, Dena Kasraian, Pirouz Nourian, Pieter Wesemael

Track 2: Networks (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Urban Spatial Structure from a Street Network Perspective: Mapping Street Patterns with Machine Learning - Cai Wu, Jon Wang, Menno-Jan Kraak

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Multimodal Network Design for the Optimal Placement of Pedestrian Streets in an Urban Congested Network - Soichiro Murakami, Yuki Oyama

  • 12:32 - 12:51 A Human-Oriented Exploration of Data-informed Urban Design: A Case Study in Shanghai - Xinghan Chen, Shanzhi Kang, Chengcheng Huang, Hanting Yu, Huali Zhang, Zehui Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen

 

Track 3: Urban Design (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Geo-visualization through Augmented Reality - Ming-Chun Lee

  • 12:11 - 12:31 Local Software: Integrated Design and Geo-computing Workflows for Urban Design - Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga, Nicholas de Monchaux

  • 12:32 - 12:51 A Feminist-Driven Computational Urban Design Framework for Mapping Gender-Inclusive Urban Places - Hawjin Falahatkar, Victoria Fast

Track 4: Three-dimensional Planning 2 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Efficient Assessment of Window Views in High-rise, High-density Urban Areas using 3D Color City Information Models - Maosu Li, Fan Xue, Anthony Gar On Yeh

  • 12:11 - 12:31 A Proposed Workflow for Conceptual Visualization Stud-ies in Urban 3D-models - Beata Stahre Wästberg, Monica Billger, Liane Thuvander, Fabio Latino, Susanne van Raalte

  • 12:32 - 12:51 Experimental Walkability Evaluation for Street Design and Traffic with 3D Street Models - Kazuki Nakamura, Yuuki Shinoda

 

12:53 - 14:29 | LUNCH

 

14:30 - 15:32 | SESSION 3 (Day 2)

Track 1: Planning Strategy 2 (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 14:30 - 14:50 Using Natural Language Processing to Identify Key Planning Strategies from Government Documents – A Case Study of 190 Chinese Cities from 2012 to 2016 - Tianyuan Wang, Li Wan

  • 14:51 - 15:11 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption in Canadian Municipalities: In-house Development versus Outsourcing - Sichen Wang, Renée Sieber

  • 15:12 - 15:32 Visions and Visibility in Mobility Data - Peter Dunn

Track 2: Transit Oriented Development + Trade (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 14:30 - 14:50 Determining the Transit Catchment Area and Distance Distribution - Daisuke Hasegawa, Sunyong Eom, Tsutomu Suzuki

  • 14:51 - 15:11 A Study on Trade Areas of Commercial Facilities in Local Medium-sized Cities -Toward a Study of the Appropriate Location of Each Facility - Daiki Shigematsu, Yuki Yamamoto, Taku Goto, Shota Tamura, Takahiro Tanaka

  • 15:12 - 15:32 Assessing the Relationship of Transit-oriented Development with Urban Vitality in China - Wenzhu Li, Tangqi Tu, Jingjia Chen, Ying Long

 

Track 3: Health + Sustainability (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 14:30 - 14:50 An Empirical Investigation of the Substitute and Complementary Relationships between Fresh, Frozen, and Canned Fruits and Vegetables in Quebec Consumers - Yu Ma, Jungmin Chang, Hiroshi Mamiya, Javad Ghasempur Sis, Laurette Dubé

  • 14:51 - 15:11 EATS: A Next-generation Adaptive Recommender System for Healthy Food Purchase Nudges - Fares Belkhiria, Jian-Yun Nie, Tianyu Zhu, Cameron McRae, Laurette Dubé

  • 15:12 - 15:32 Geographies of Aging in Hong Kong: Non-spatial and Spatial Correlation Analysis of Population Ageing Ratio and Population Ageing Density - Danyang Lei

 

Track 4: Participation 1 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

15:33 - 15:49 | BREAK 

 

15:50 - 16:52 | SESSION 4 (Day 2)

Track 1: Dashboards (Room 150, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Curbcut: A Web Platform for Deep, Dynamic and Intuitive Geospatial Analysis of Sustainability in Canadian Cities - David Wachsmuth, Kevin Manaugh, Maxime Bélanger de Blois

  • 16:11 - 16:31 GreenTwins as a Communicative Planning Support System (CPSS) - Viktorija Prilenska, Pilvi Nummi, Xunran Tan, Laura Mrosla, Hamidreza Zarrinkafsh, Henna Fabritius

  • 16:32 - 16:52 Design and Implementation of a Human-centered Inter-active Transportation Dashboard for Small Towns through Heterogeneous Spatial Data Integration - Xinyue Ye, Shoujia Li, Jiaxin Du, Wei Li

 

Track 2: Urban Futures (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Planning Sustainable Cities: Coordinating Accessibility Improvements with Housing Policies - Rounaq Basu, Joseph Ferreira

  • 16:11 - 16:31 The What If? Online Planning Support Toolkit - Richard Klosterman

  • 16:32 - 16:52 Digital Twins, Turing Tests, and Urban Models - Mike Batty

 

Track 3: Energy (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 Spatial Microsimulation and Agent-Based Modelling of Household Energy Behaviors - Jianhua Zhang, Dimitris Ballas

  • 16:11 - 16:31 Using Linked Data to Assist in Estimating Hourly Pv Power Generation at the Neighbourhood Level: A Case Study in The Netherlands - Xuan Liu, Dujuan Yang, Bauke de Vries

  • 16:32 - 16:52 Measuring Community Perceptions of Wind Farm Cumulative Environmental Impacts: Australia versus UK - Trevor White, Andrew Allan, Ali Soltani

 

Track 4: Participation 2 (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 15:50 - 16:10 The Role of Social Media in Reshaping the Power of Third Parties in Urban Planning - Junyao He, Yanliu Lin, Pieter Hooimeijer, Jochen Monstadt

  • 16:11 - 16:31 The Influence of Participatory Mapping on Urban Planning - Nurminen Valtteri, Saana Rossi, Marketta Kyttä

  • 16:32 - 16:52 The Platformization of Public Participation: Considerations for Urban Planners Navigating New Engagement Tools - Pamela Robinson, Peter Johnson

 

CUPUM DAY 3: 22 June 2023

 

9:00 - 10:00 | PANEL 2 (Moyse Hall, Arts Building)

  • CUPUM According to ChatGPT - Rob Goodspeed (University of Michigan), Nelson Rodrigues da Silva (University of São Paulo), Renée Sieber (McGill University), Roberto Ponce Lopez (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Sarah Williams (MIT), Anthony Yeh (University of Hong Kong), Raja Sengupta (moderator) (McGill University)

 

10:30 - 11:33 | SESSION 1

Track 1: Visioning the City (Room 150, Arts Building)

Track 2: Urban Policy + Environment (Room 260, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Hybrid Smartness: Seeking a Balance Between Top-down and Bottom-up Smart City Approaches - Mennatullah Hendawy, Iasmin Fernanda Kormann da Silva

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Predicting Urban Heat Island Mitigation with Random Forest Regression in Belgian Cities - Mitali Yeshwant Joshi, Daniel G. Aliaga, Jacques Teller

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Urban Form and Daily Living Convenience: A Quantitative Urban Morphological Study using Shanghai New Towns as Cases - Changyu Chen, Xiaoyu Chen, Yu Ye

Track 3: Urban Life (Room W-215, Arts Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 Developing Polynomial Logit Regression Models for Home and Neighbourhood Location Choices - Ali Soltani, Reza Asadi, Banafsheh Aliabbasi, Safiyeh Tayebi, Arsham Bassiri Abyaneh

  • 10:51 - 11:11 An Evaluation of an Integrated Community Care System Using Medical Services Reimbursement Data - Misugi Yuyama, Eiji Satoh, Yasuhiro Nohara

  • 11:12 - 11:32 Mapping Public Opinion Dynamics on Weibo: A Case Study on Epidemic Prevention Policy Discussion - Minxin Chen

 

Track 4: Smart Cities (Room 232, Leacock Building)

  • 10:30 - 10:50 A framework to probe the uncertainties in urban cellular automata modelling with a novel framework of multilevel density approach for Wallonia region, Belgium - Anasua Chakraborty, Ahmed Mustafa, Hichem Omrani, Jacques Teller

  • 10:51 - 11:11 Mapping Smart City Indexes Over Time - Mennatullah Hendawy, Nagham El Hayek, Atieh Kashani, Olayinka Iyinolakan and Magy Seif El-Nasr

  • 11:12 - 11:32 How visual perception shapes our cities: Simulation of street activity based on visibility - Asya Natapov, Mingyang Li

 

12:10 - 13:30 | LUNCH                                                                                                                                                      

 

13:30 - 17:00 | WORKSHOPS

NB: Exact workshop duration will vary depending on content

WORKSHOP 1 (Room 150, Arts Building) 

  • Deep Dive into New Scenario Planning Toolkits – What If? & RAISE - Chris Pettit, Reg Wade

 

WORKSHOP 2 (Room 260, Arts Building) 

  • Cellular Automata and Agent Based Modelling for Urban Densification Studies - Saeed Harati, Raja Sengupta

 

WORKSHOP 3 (Room W-215, Arts Building) 

  • Modelling and Mapping Transit Accessibility for Sustainable City Planning - Duncan Smith, Adam Dennett

 

WORKSHOP 4 (Room 232, Leacock Building) 

  • GGP-GAMS - The Fast, Accurate and Transparent (i.e. easily understood outputs) Approach to AI for Urban Planning Using Spatial GAMs - Alexis Comber

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