Wei Liu, PhD, AICP, is an Assistant Professor of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. He teaches environmental design capstones and seminars on sustainable urbanism, design resilient communities, and urban real estate development. He also serves as a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Quality Communities at OU.
Wei’s current research explores sustainable and resilient design as a way to strengthen cohesion and navigate urban transformation in today’s increasingly polarized society. He has presented his scholarship at conferences hosted by the American Planning Association, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Association of Geographers, the Institute for Public Health at Washington University, and Tongji University.
Wei earned a doctorate in sustainable urbanism from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Urban Design from the University of Miami. He was a Mellon Fellow with the Divided City Initiative at Washington University, where he studied the role of public space in mediating urban segregation in St. Louis. He is also a recipient of the Gina Tirinnanzi, AICP Memorial Scholarship awarded by the American Planning Association.
In professional practice, Wei worked as an urban planner, collaborating primarily with public sector clients. His projects included county-wide future land use plans, municipal small area plans and design guidelines, retrofitting historic redlining neighborhoods, corridor and main street revitalization, master-planned communities, and HUD Choice Neighborhoods projects.
