DR. WEI LIU, AICP, CNU-A

Bio

Wei Liu an Assistant Professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design at the University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture. He teaches core courses in environmental design and mentors graduate research assistants across disciplines within the Insititute for Quality Communities at the University of Oklahoma.

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, Main Street America, 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 degree from the University of Miami. He was a Mellon Fellow with the 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 recipient of the Gina Tirinnanzi Memorial Scholarship awarded by the American Planning Association.

In professional practice, Wei worked as an urban planner/designer, collaborating primarily with public sector clients. His projects include county-, city-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 Neighborhood projects.

News

• [01/16/26] IQC Durant Dual-Projects Launched in Preparation for Early-March Design Charrette.
• [01/15/26] Joined the Gibbs AI Workgroup.
• [12/15/25] IQC Dewey District Project Advances as Students Present Final Concepts to Poteau Community Partners.
• [12/12/25] Invited to Present at the 2026 Main Street Now Conference in Tulsa (April 13–15, 2026).
• [12/12/25] Awarded $6,500 PRE Grant from the Gibbs College of Architecture for Small-Town Mobility Corridor Research.
• [11/20/25] Awarded $30,052 OVPRP SEIP Grant to Support the Launch of the Mobile Urban Design Unit.
• [08/16/25] Joined the University of Oklahoma as Assistant Professor.

Teaching

I teach courses within the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design, with a focus on environmental design education that integrates planning, urban design, and real-world engagement. My teaching interests include environmental design capstones and seminars on sustainable urbanism, designing resilient communities, and urban real estate development.

Vitæ

Full Curriculum Vitae in PDF.

• University of Oklahoma 2025 - Now

  Assistant Professor
  Planning, Landscape Architecture, & Design
  Assistant Professor
  Institute of Quality Communities
  Gibbs College of Architecture
• Washington University in St. Louis 2016 - 2021

  Doctorate
  Sustainable Urbanism
• University of Miami 2014 - 2016

  Master
  Urban Design
• Tianjin Chengjian University 2009 - 2014

  B.E.
  Urban and Regional Planning

Acknowledgement