Theodore Lim
Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning (UAP)
140 Otey St
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Blacksburg, VA 24061
- Ph.D., City & Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
- M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University (China), 2011
- B.A., Immigrant Studies, Swarthmore College, 2007
- Environmental planning
- Environmental data and models in decision-making processes
- Water resources and hydrology
- SPIA 2005/2006: Introduction to Urban Analytics
- SPIA 2104: Urban Analytics for Decision-Making
- SPIA 4464: Data and the Art of Policy-Making and Planning
- SPIA 4854: Urban Infrastructure
- UAP 5125: Planning Studio: Real World Problems and Solutions
- "Examining privilege and power in US urban parks and open space during the double crises of antiblack racism and COVID-19" Socio-Ecological Practice Research, with Fushcia Hoover (2020)
- “Rocky Steps towards Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governance in Implementing Green Infrastructure at Urban Scale in Philadelphia.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, with David Hsu and Ting Meng (2020)
- "Model emulators and complexity management at the environmental science-action interface" Environmental Modelling & Software (2020)
- “Use of the McHargian LUSA in agricultural research and decision-making in the age of non-stationarity and big earth observation data.” Socio-Ecological Practice Research (2019)
- “Assessing variability and uncertainty in green infrastructure planning using a high-resolution surface-subsurface hydrological model and site-monitored flow data,” with C. Welty, Frontiers of the Built Environment (2018)
- “An empirical study of spatial-temporal growth patterns of a voluntary residential green infrastructure program,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2017)
- “Effects of spatial configuration of imperviousness and green infrastructure networks on hydrologic response in a residential sewershed,” with C. Welty, Water Resources Research (2017)
- “Predictors of urban variable source area: a cross-sectional analysis of urbanized catchments in the United States,” Hydrological Processes (2016)
- Green Infrastructure 2.0
- Open data portals, information accessibility and smart communities
- Integrated carbon and water cycle planning
- Agriculture and rural planning
- Climate change mitigation
- Green infrastructure planning and implementation
- Water resources management and impacts of land use on hydrology
- Data science and “big data” applications in urban and environmental planning