Prof. LU Yi (陸毅)

Prof. Yi LU is a tenured Associate Professor in Architecture at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his bachelor’s degree of architecture from Southeast University in China, his master’s degree from National University of Singapore, and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. His research areas include healthy cities, spatial analysis, and environment-behavior studies, such as how urban design characteristics influence walking and healthy outcomes and how nursing unit design influences staff behaviors.

Prof. LU published over 130 SCI/SSCI articles in leading academic journals. He is the director of Healthy Urban & Buildings (HUB) Lab.

He was awarded over HK$3M in external research grants as a principal investigator from various agencies, such as the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He serves as the deputy director of the Environmental-behavior Research Committee and an editorial board member of Landscape and Urban Planning, and Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. He is named the 2023 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of social sciences by Clarivate Analytics (1 in 1000) and the Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientist by Stanford University in multiple years.

See more recent news and events from the lab's website: HUB Lab

• CA29112: Integrated Studio - Medium-Scale Buildings (Topic 1)
• CA29122: Integrated Studio - Medium-Scale Buildings (Topic 2)
• CA29132: Integrated Studio - Medium-Scale Buildings (Topic 3)
• CA29502: Technical Studies - Building Envelope Systems
• CA3177: Architectural Spatial Analysis
• CA5166: Spatial Analysis and Theories

Spatial analysis, Environment-behavior study, Built environment and health, Urban big data, Greenspace