Human-centered Urban Planning And Design

This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization.  Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, culture diversity, economic prosperity and sustainable built form. This book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to the faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban and regional planning, rural planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, climate change and ecological planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. 

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

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 with travel behavior through machine learning. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (2018-2023). He was the chair of International Association for China Planning (2015-2017).