Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume II, 1st ed. 2021
Urban Design and Mobility
GeoJournal Library Series, Vol. 130

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be ?people-centered? and concerned about ?place-making? in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Successful urban design and placemaking should adopt interdisciplinary approaches to planning and designing ?space? and ?place?. A core vision is the delivery of urban spaces that can cater to the needs of an increasingly diverse crowd of urban dwellers calling cities home. The book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning and design approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to those faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban design, transport planning, mobility analysis and planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond.

This book discussing human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility is part of a 2 volume set. Volume I deals with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China.

Part I   Urban design and placemaking

1.     Space-oriented Elements and Their Relevance to Chengdu Street Cultural Landscape

Lingqing Zhang and Jing Yan

2.      Study of the Fifth Façade Planning and Controlling in the Wuhan Aerotropolis

Guanpeng Liu, Shaozhi Hong, Ying Wang, Ling Dai and Weixuan Wei

3.      Station-City Integration: Urban Space Ecological Transformation Research Based on Rail Transit

Yang Yue and Jiang Chang

4.      Overview of the Research Progress of TOD at Home and Abroad - Based on the Visual Analysis into Citespace Software

Xuan Zhuo, Jiang Chang and Yuanyuan Deng

5.      Towards a definition of bikability in the Chinese context

Aline Chevalier, Manuel Charlemagne, and Leiqing Xu

6.      The Activation System of the ‘Three-dimensional City’ in Urban Renewal

Qing Mei

7.      Research on the Generation Mechanism of Urban Innovation Space

Peng Zeng and Jinxuan Li

8.      A Strategic Approach to Activating Multi-level Public Space in Neighborhoods along Urban Expressways

Yijia Guo and Yan Huang

9.      Urban Form Analysis of Courtyard in Traditional Settlements - Case Study of Three Lanes and Seven Alleys District in Fuzhou city

Li-bin Zhou and Hsiao-Tung Chang

10.   Analysis of Existing Research on the Architecture Culture and Ecological Technique used in Li`s Courtyard in Yanjing Village, Shanxi Province

Yuanfen Lv

Part II Human activities and urban mobility

11.   Understanding the Substitution of Commuting Trip Chains for Other Home-based Trips and Factors’ Effects on Commuting Trip Chaining Propensity - Using Shanghai Mobile Phone Sighting Data

Yishu Wang and Haixiao Pan

12.   Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Passenger Travel Modes: A Study Based on Shanghai Smart Card Data

Huanxi Xu and Shaozhi Hong

13.   Study of the Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of College Students' Activities Based on Mobile Phone Data

Chenchen Sun, Xinyi Niu and Xiaodong Song

14.   Cycling to School in China: Identifying Patterns in Safety Perception

Aline Chevalier, Manuel Charlemagne and Leiqing Xu

15.   Effects of the Built Environment on the Route-Choosing Behaviors of Recreational Cyclists in Shenzhen

Ting Wen and Kun Liu

16.   The Effects of Parks and Surrounding Built Environments on Physical Activity Diversity with Volunteered Geographic Information

Hongkun Xie, Miao Yu and Kun Liu

17.   The Inflow and Outflow Pattern of University Graduates of Major Cities in China from the Perspective of Flow Space

Jingxin Nie and Helin Liu

18.   A Study on the Distribution of Migrants with Different Education Levels in Shanghai

Ziqi Liu, Bev Wilson and Wei Zhu

Weifeng Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also holds both a Master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Peking University, China. His research interests focus on environmental sustainability, urbanization and environmental changes, land use-transportation planning interactions and the environmental and energy impacts, as well as the use of GIS and spatial analysis in urban planning. Currently he is working on neighborhood design and energy efficiency funded by Research Grants Committee in Hong Kong and built environment and air quality funded by NSF of China.  Dr. Li was a board member of the International Association for China Planning (IACP), 2013-2017.

Lingqian Hu is Chair of the Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture & Urban Planning at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prof. Hu received her Bachelor of Planning degree from Nanjing University in China and a Master of Planning and doctorate in Policy, Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California. As a professor of urban planning, She teaches courses on transportation and land use planning, urban development theories, and transportation and GIS. Prof. Hu is also the chair of the International Association for China Planning (IACP).

Jason Cao is a professor of urban planning in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received a Ph.D. degree from University of California, Davis. His research interests include land use and transportation interactions, the impacts of ICT on travel behavior, and planning for subjective well-being. He is internationally well-known for his research in addressing residential self-selection in the relationships between land use and travel behavior and exploring nonlinear associations

Describes human-centered urban design, place making and mobility

Presents theories and practices of sustainable urban design and mobility

Explores approaches to planning and designing space and place