Map of structure-to-structure connectivity within the wildland-urban interface across Los Angeles County

Structure-to-Structure Connectivity and Urban Wildfire Destruction Risk in California

Using LiDAR-derived building meshes and post-fire assessments for 24,771 exposed structures, this paper estimates when structure-to-structure exposure drives self-sustained urban wildfire spread and identifies at-risk communities across California.

October 2026 · Adam Swietek
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Automated Design Appraisal

Design appraisal is represented by a novel data-driven approach that predicts prices of procedurally generated building designs, using learned estimates of financial preference of design performance.

Adam R. Swietek
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Visual Capital

Evaluating visual landscape quality at large-scale has remained challenging. In this paper we have introduced a spatial machine learning approach to generate an income-derived building-specific measure of Visual Capital.

Adam R. Swietek, Wüest Partner