Yehua Dennis Wei is professor of geography at the University of Utah (UU) and has received degrees in both geography and planning. Dr. Wei has extensive experience in urban/economic geography, regional planning, and GIS. He has been studying urban environment, housing and travel behaviors in Salt Lake City. He is author of more than 100 referenced journal articles including Economic Geography, Cities, Environment and Planning A, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Urban Studies. He has edited Urban Land and Sustainable Development (MDPI, 2017) and a dozen journal special issues including Spatial Inequality (Applied Geography, 2015) and Urban Expansion, Sprawl and Inequality (Landscape and Urban Planning, in progress). His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Ford Foundation, and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has received awards for excellence in research from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Association of American Geographers’ Regional Development & Planning specialty group. His professional services include: advisor/panelist for the NSF, consultant to the World Bank, Chair of the Association of American Geographers’ China, Asian, and Regional Development & Planning specialty groups.