Monitoring “smart inclusive transition” for equitable urban futures, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework
This project is to monitor smart-inclusive transitions of cities across the globe, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework of UN-Habitat. It aims to contribute to better prepare cities to address a wide range of shocks and transitions to sustainable urban futures.
Funding Source: XJTLU UPD/ Seoul National University
Research Team: Juhyun Lee, Sophie Sturup, Joon Kim, Elain (Lujie) Wang, Yanru Feng and researchers from the SNU Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Project Period: Jan 2022
Monitoring “Smart Inclusive Transitions (SIT)” for Equitable Urban Future, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework
The project is commissioned by UN-Habitat to showcase how the UN’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework can be applied as an analytic tool to promote an equitable urban future. Ultimately, the project investigates smart inclusive transitions to enhance understanding of opportunities and challenges towards an equitable urban future. The project develops the SIT analytical toolkit and conducts a concrete case study in Africa to judge the applicability of the toolkit and its application to policy implications.
The project is commissioned by UN-Habitat to showcase how the UN’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework can be applied as an analytic tool to promote an equitable urban future. Ultimately, the project investigates smart inclusive transitions to enhance understanding of opportunities and challenges towards an equitable urban future. The project develops the SIT analytical toolkit and conducts a concrete case study in Africa to assess the applicability of the toolkit and its policy implications.
Funding Source: XJTLU Design School Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Juhyun Lee, Joon Sik Kim, Sophie Sturup
UN-Habitat (Seoul National University)
Project Period: 2022 ~ 2024
Financing Clean Air: the potential of Land Value Capture to secure sustainable urban development supporting air quality enhancement
Poor urban air quality is a significant threat to human life. More sustainable transport and housing promises to enhance air quality, but this requires investment. Capturing a proportion of land values in the development process offers an innovative way of improving housing- and transport-induced poor air quality through investing in urban environments. We will do this by identifying the dynamic relationship between varying approaches to land value capture as mechanisms to finance sustainable transportation and environmentally responsible housing to improve air quality.
Poor urban air quality is a significant threat to human life. More sustainable transport and housing promises to enhance air quality, but this requires investment. Capturing a proportion of land values in the development process offers an innovative way of improving housing- and transport-induced poor air quality through investing in urban environments. We will achieve this by identifying the dynamic relationship between varying approaches to land value capture as mechanisms to finance sustainable transportation and environmentally responsible housing to improve air quality.
Funding Source: NSFC-Joint Programme Initiative-Urban Europe (NSFC 71961137006)
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim, Hyung-Chul Chung; University of Liverpool, UK; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France; Radboud Univeristy, Netherlands; Tongji University, China
Project Period: 2019 ~ 2023
Understanding complex viewpoints in smart sustainable cities: The experience of Suzhou, China
Smart sustainable cities have been seen as catalysts for transforming the socio-economic environments of the city to be more knowledge-based and eco-friendly. By combining two buzzwords, ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart cities’, planners face the complex challenge of managing their definitional impreciseness, which often involves contrasting views and different expectations in delivering smart sustainable cities in real life. The stakeholders’ perception study is critical because the attitudes of professionals and policymakers may impact the strategic directions of smart sustainable cities, especially when no clear consensus is built on this emerging issue. The research uses Q methodology to measure the different perspectives and subjective opinions to develop new ideas by capturing human practice, in this case, from smart city practitioners in China.
Smart sustainable cities have been seen as catalysts for transforming the socio-economic environments of the city to be more knowledge-based and eco-friendly. By combining two buzzwords, ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart cities’, planners face the complex challenge of managing their definitional impreciseness, which often involves contrasting views and different expectations in delivering smart sustainable cities in real life. The stakeholders’ perception study is critical because the attitudes of professionals and policymakers may impact the strategic directions of smart sustainable cities, especially when no clear consensus is built on this emerging issue. The research uses Q methodology to measure the different perspectives and subjective opinions to develop new ideas by capturing human practice, in this case, from smart city practitioners in China.
Funding Source: XJTLU Research Development Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim, Yangru Feng
Project Period: 2019 ~ 2024
Unlocking the ‘Black Box’: Digitally-enabled regional planning collaboration for ecological revitalization in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Leveraging the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this research is critical in bringing the traditional knowledge of collaborative planning theory into innovative debates on contemporary digitalized planning practice. By taking the novel communication means into account, the ‘digitally-enabled collaboration’ concept is newly introduced in this research to capture synergy generated from both digital and non-digital interactions across different governmental units at multiple spatial scales. Preliminary analysis results guide the study in two research foci: (1) formal approach – how can institutional and policy arrangements be reformed to improve regional collaboration?; and (2) informal approach – how can an informal network, such as guanxi (关系), be a planning tool for collaboration in China?
Leveraging the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this research is critical in bringing the traditional knowledge of collaborative planning theory into innovative debates on contemporary digitalized planning practice. By taking novel communication means into account, the ‘digitally-enabled collaboration’ concept is newly introduced in this research to capture synergy generated from both digital and non-digital interactions across different governmental units at multiple spatial scales. Preliminary analysis results guide the study in two research foci: (1) formal approach – how can institutional and policy arrangements be reformed to improve regional collaboration?; and (2) informal approach – how can an informal network, such as guanxi (关系), be a planning tool for collaboration in China?”
Funding Source: XJTLU Postgraduate Research Scholarship Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim
Project Period: 2024 ~ Now
Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation
This project is an invitation for cross disciplinary engagement around the topic of Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation. Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation, is a wide-ranging research topic including extending the question of smart technology (or digitalisation) from what it can be used for into the question of its impact on society, and on life. An initial workshop has been conducted with keynote speaker Sarah Barns (RMIT Melbourne) and attendees from Linneus University and from XJLTU Departments of: Urban Planning and Design; Architecture; China Studies; Educational Studies; HeXie Management; and Health and Environmental Sciences. The intention of the project is to build a platform of engagement in the topic across the region.
This project is an invitation for cross-disciplinary engagement around the topic of Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation. Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation is a wide-ranging research topic that includes extending the question of smart technology (or digitalisation) beyond its uses to its impact on society and life. An initial workshop has been conducted with keynote speaker Sarah Barns (RMIT Melbourne) and attendees from Linneus University and from XJLTU Departments of Urban Planning and Design, Architecture, China Studies, Educational Studies, HeXie Management, and Health and Environmental Sciences. The intention of the project is to build a platform for engagement on the topic across the region.
Funding Source: UPD Department for workshop support
Research Team: XJTLU: Sophie Sturup, Juhyun Lee, Kon Kim; Linneus University, Sweden: Johan Vaide
Project Period: 2024 ~ Now
Elderly friendly Environment Making during Rapid Urbanisation Longitudinal Empirical Study of the Impact of Built Environment on Health
Rapid urbanisation has caused a considerable elderly population to relocate from rural countryside to urban neighbourhoods. This study examines the impact of built environment change on their health and the inequality aggravated by living density and built environment configuration. Methods: The primary data is from a longitudinal study on urbanisation and health of relocated farmers in Suzhou, China. The baseline survey was conducted from June to November in 2019 from two groups, relocated farmers (N=1,053) and the control group of farmers still living in the rural countryside (N=1,597).
Rapid urbanisation has caused a considerable elderly population to relocate from rural countryside to urban neighbourhoods. This study examines the impact of built environment change on their health and the inequality aggravated by living density and built environment configuration. Methods: The primary data are from a longitudinal study on urbanisation and health of relocated farmers in Suzhou, China. The baseline survey was conducted from June to November in 2019 with two groups: relocated farmers (N=1,053) and the control group of farmers still living in the rural countryside (N=1,597).
Funding Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 51808451)
Research Team: Dr Ying Chang(UPD), Dr Guibo Sun (University of Hong Kong), Dr Lin Lin (UPD)
Exploring Residential Satisfaction: The Impact of Neighborhood Built Environment on Happiness Across Age Groups
Understanding the relationship between the built environment and happiness is crucial as it informs urban planning and policy decisions that enhance the quality of life. Studying happiness across different age groups provides insights into tailored environmental interventions that can meet diverse needs and promote well-being in urban populations. This study investigates how the built environment of neighborhoods influences residential satisfaction and happiness among various age groups.
Understanding the relationship between the built environment and happiness is crucial as it informs urban planning and policy decisions that enhance the quality of life. Studying happiness across different age groups provides insights into tailored environmental interventions that can meet diverse needs and promote well-being in urban populations. This study investigates how the built environment of neighborhoods influences residential satisfaction and happiness among various age groups.
Funding Source: Qingdao Urban Planning and Design Research Institute
Research Team: XJLTU: Lin Lin; Qingdao Urban Planning and Design Research Institute: Tianyi Chen
Project Period: 2023 ~ 2025
Implementing Change in Complex Systems
This project encompasses a diverse set of activities including Shaohua Hu’s PhD research ‘Getting Public Transport Networked: how to improve the implementation of this ‘wicked’ problem’ and research on Implementing Networked Public Transport in China. The work proceeds through genealogical studies of implementation enhanced by storytelling interview techniques. The findings demonstrate the value of approaches to implementation which encompass understandings of the whole, and attempts to develop mechanisms through which such understandings can remain privileged over time.
Research Team: Sophie Sturup, Shaohua Hu, Yina Sima, Jan Scheurer
Monitoring “smart inclusive transition” for equitable urban futures, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework
This project is to monitor smart-inclusive transitions of cities across the globe, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework of UN-Habitat. It aims to contribute to better prepare cities to address a wide range of shocks and transitions to sustainable urban futures.
Funding Source: XJTLU UPD/ Seoul National University
Research Team: Juhyun Lee, Sophie Sturup, Joon Kim, Elain (Lujie) Wang, Yanru Feng and researchers from the SNU Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Project Period: Jan 2022
Monitoring “Smart Inclusive Transitions (SIT)” for Equitable Urban Future, using Global Urban Monitoring Framework
The project is commissioned by UN-Habitat to showcase how the UN’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework can be applied as an analytic tool to promote an equitable urban future. Ultimately, the project investigates smart inclusive transitions to enhance understanding of opportunities and challenges towards an equitable urban future. The project develops the SIT analytical toolkit and conducts a concrete case study in Africa to judge the applicability of the toolkit and its application to policy implications.
The project is commissioned by UN-Habitat to showcase how the UN’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework can be applied as an analytic tool to promote an equitable urban future. Ultimately, the project investigates smart inclusive transitions to enhance understanding of opportunities and challenges towards an equitable urban future. The project develops the SIT analytical toolkit and conducts a concrete case study in Africa to assess the applicability of the toolkit and its policy implications.
Funding Source: XJTLU Design School Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Juhyun Lee, Joon Sik Kim, Sophie Sturup
UN-Habitat (Seoul National University)
Project Period: 2022 ~ 2024
Financing Clean Air: the potential of Land Value Capture to secure sustainable urban development supporting air quality enhancement
Poor urban air quality is a significant threat to human life. More sustainable transport and housing promises to enhance air quality, but this requires investment. Capturing a proportion of land values in the development process offers an innovative way of improving housing- and transport-induced poor air quality through investing in urban environments. We will do this by identifying the dynamic relationship between varying approaches to land value capture as mechanisms to finance sustainable transportation and environmentally responsible housing to improve air quality.
Poor urban air quality is a significant threat to human life. More sustainable transport and housing promises to enhance air quality, but this requires investment. Capturing a proportion of land values in the development process offers an innovative way of improving housing- and transport-induced poor air quality through investing in urban environments. We will achieve this by identifying the dynamic relationship between varying approaches to land value capture as mechanisms to finance sustainable transportation and environmentally responsible housing to improve air quality.
Funding Source: NSFC-Joint Programme Initiative-Urban Europe (NSFC 71961137006)
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim, Hyung-Chul Chung; University of Liverpool, UK; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France; Radboud Univeristy, Netherlands; Tongji University, China
Project Period: 2019 ~ 2023
Understanding complex viewpoints in smart sustainable cities: The experience of Suzhou, China
Smart sustainable cities have been seen as catalysts for transforming the socio-economic environments of the city to be more knowledge-based and eco-friendly. By combining two buzzwords, ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart cities’, planners face the complex challenge of managing their definitional impreciseness, which often involves contrasting views and different expectations in delivering smart sustainable cities in real life. The stakeholders’ perception study is critical because the attitudes of professionals and policymakers may impact the strategic directions of smart sustainable cities, especially when no clear consensus is built on this emerging issue. The research uses Q methodology to measure the different perspectives and subjective opinions to develop new ideas by capturing human practice, in this case, from smart city practitioners in China.
Smart sustainable cities have been seen as catalysts for transforming the socio-economic environments of the city to be more knowledge-based and eco-friendly. By combining two buzzwords, ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart cities’, planners face the complex challenge of managing their definitional impreciseness, which often involves contrasting views and different expectations in delivering smart sustainable cities in real life. The stakeholders’ perception study is critical because the attitudes of professionals and policymakers may impact the strategic directions of smart sustainable cities, especially when no clear consensus is built on this emerging issue. The research uses Q methodology to measure the different perspectives and subjective opinions to develop new ideas by capturing human practice, in this case, from smart city practitioners in China.
Funding Source: XJTLU Research Development Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim, Yangru Feng
Project Period: 2019 ~ 2024
Unlocking the ‘Black Box’: Digitally-enabled regional planning collaboration for ecological revitalization in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Leveraging the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this research is critical in bringing the traditional knowledge of collaborative planning theory into innovative debates on contemporary digitalized planning practice. By taking the novel communication means into account, the ‘digitally-enabled collaboration’ concept is newly introduced in this research to capture synergy generated from both digital and non-digital interactions across different governmental units at multiple spatial scales. Preliminary analysis results guide the study in two research foci: (1) formal approach – how can institutional and policy arrangements be reformed to improve regional collaboration?; and (2) informal approach – how can an informal network, such as guanxi (关系), be a planning tool for collaboration in China?
Leveraging the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this research is critical in bringing the traditional knowledge of collaborative planning theory into innovative debates on contemporary digitalized planning practice. By taking novel communication means into account, the ‘digitally-enabled collaboration’ concept is newly introduced in this research to capture synergy generated from both digital and non-digital interactions across different governmental units at multiple spatial scales. Preliminary analysis results guide the study in two research foci: (1) formal approach – how can institutional and policy arrangements be reformed to improve regional collaboration?; and (2) informal approach – how can an informal network, such as guanxi (关系), be a planning tool for collaboration in China?”
Funding Source: XJTLU Postgraduate Research Scholarship Fund
Research Team: XJTLU: Joon Sik Kim
Project Period: 2024 ~ Now
Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation
This project is an invitation for cross disciplinary engagement around the topic of Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation. Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation, is a wide-ranging research topic including extending the question of smart technology (or digitalisation) from what it can be used for into the question of its impact on society, and on life. An initial workshop has been conducted with keynote speaker Sarah Barns (RMIT Melbourne) and attendees from Linneus University and from XJLTU Departments of: Urban Planning and Design; Architecture; China Studies; Educational Studies; HeXie Management; and Health and Environmental Sciences. The intention of the project is to build a platform of engagement in the topic across the region.
This project is an invitation for cross-disciplinary engagement around the topic of Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation. Everyday Urbanism and Digitalisation is a wide-ranging research topic that includes extending the question of smart technology (or digitalisation) beyond its uses to its impact on society and life. An initial workshop has been conducted with keynote speaker Sarah Barns (RMIT Melbourne) and attendees from Linneus University and from XJLTU Departments of Urban Planning and Design, Architecture, China Studies, Educational Studies, HeXie Management, and Health and Environmental Sciences. The intention of the project is to build a platform for engagement on the topic across the region.
Funding Source: UPD Department for workshop support
Research Team: XJTLU: Sophie Sturup, Juhyun Lee, Kon Kim; Linneus University, Sweden: Johan Vaide
Project Period: 2024 ~ Now
Elderly friendly Environment Making during Rapid Urbanisation Longitudinal Empirical Study of the Impact of Built Environment on Health
Rapid urbanisation has caused a considerable elderly population to relocate from rural countryside to urban neighbourhoods. This study examines the impact of built environment change on their health and the inequality aggravated by living density and built environment configuration. Methods: The primary data is from a longitudinal study on urbanisation and health of relocated farmers in Suzhou, China. The baseline survey was conducted from June to November in 2019 from two groups, relocated farmers (N=1,053) and the control group of farmers still living in the rural countryside (N=1,597).
Rapid urbanisation has caused a considerable elderly population to relocate from rural countryside to urban neighbourhoods. This study examines the impact of built environment change on their health and the inequality aggravated by living density and built environment configuration. Methods: The primary data are from a longitudinal study on urbanisation and health of relocated farmers in Suzhou, China. The baseline survey was conducted from June to November in 2019 with two groups: relocated farmers (N=1,053) and the control group of farmers still living in the rural countryside (N=1,597).
Funding Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 51808451)
Research Team: Dr Ying Chang(UPD), Dr Guibo Sun (University of Hong Kong), Dr Lin Lin (UPD)
Project Period: Jan 2019
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Exploring Residential Satisfaction: The Impact of Neighborhood Built Environment on Happiness Across Age Groups
Understanding the relationship between the built environment and happiness is crucial as it informs urban planning and policy decisions that enhance the quality of life. Studying happiness across different age groups provides insights into tailored environmental interventions that can meet diverse needs and promote well-being in urban populations. This study investigates how the built environment of neighborhoods influences residential satisfaction and happiness among various age groups.
Understanding the relationship between the built environment and happiness is crucial as it informs urban planning and policy decisions that enhance the quality of life. Studying happiness across different age groups provides insights into tailored environmental interventions that can meet diverse needs and promote well-being in urban populations. This study investigates how the built environment of neighborhoods influences residential satisfaction and happiness among various age groups.
Funding Source: Qingdao Urban Planning and Design Research Institute
Research Team: XJLTU: Lin Lin; Qingdao Urban Planning and Design Research Institute: Tianyi Chen
Project Period: 2023 ~ 2025
Implementing Change in Complex Systems
This project encompasses a diverse set of activities including Shaohua Hu’s PhD research ‘Getting Public Transport Networked: how to improve the implementation of this ‘wicked’ problem’ and research on Implementing Networked Public Transport in China. The work proceeds through genealogical studies of implementation enhanced by storytelling interview techniques. The findings demonstrate the value of approaches to implementation which encompass understandings of the whole, and attempts to develop mechanisms through which such understandings can remain privileged over time.
Research Team: Sophie Sturup, Shaohua Hu, Yina Sima, Jan Scheurer
Project Period: July 2019