Brian Deal is a Professor at Landscape Architecture.

What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?

Urban Sustainability, building energy, climate mitigation planning, and landscape scaled modeling and analysis

What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes?

I teach Landscape architecture geodesign studios along with classes on urban sustainability, urban energy systems, smart landscapes, and sustainable planning theory.

Do you have any recent awards, honors, or publications that you would like to highlight?

I am one of the primary, original authors of the iCAP - the University's Climate Action Plan. Recent publications include: Esmaeilzadeh, Ahmad, Brian Deal, Aghil Yousefi-Koma, and Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh. "How Multi-Criterion Optimized Control Methods Improve Effectiveness of Multi-Zone Building Heating System Upgrading." Energies 15, no. 22 (2022): 8675. Mosey, Grant, and Brian Deal. "Measuring the Economic Premium for Height." CTBUH Journal 2 (2022). Cong, C., Kwak, Y., and Brian Deal. “Incorporating active transportation modes in large scale urban modeling to inform sustainable urban development”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. (2022): 91, 101726. Pan, Haozhi, Yoonshin Kwak, and Brian Deal. "Participatory Development of Planning Support Systems to Improve Empowerment and Localization." Journal of Urban Technology (2022): 1-22. Pan, Haozhi, Stan Geertman, Brian Deal, Jungfeng Jiao, and Bo Wang. "Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era." Journal of Urban Technology 29, no. 2 (2022): 1-5. Lai, Siqi, and Brian Deal. "Parks, Green Space, and Happiness: A Spatially Specific Sentiment Analysis Using Microblogs in Shanghai, China." Sustainability 15, no. 1 (2022): 146. Esmaeilzadeh, Ahmad, Brian Deal, Aghil Yousefi-Koma, and Mohammad Reza Zakerzadeh. "How combination of control methods and renewable energies leads a large commercial building to a zero-emission zone–A case study in US." Energy 263 (2023): 125944. Cai, Zipan, Yoonshin Kwak, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Brian Deal, and Ulla Mörtberg. "Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning." Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet. (2023).

What is a book (academic or non-academic, in or outside your field) that you think should be more widely read?

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold