ChengHe Guan
Can urban design strategies promote sustainable urban future?
ChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Design at New York University Shanghai. He also served as an Associate Research Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He taught an urban design studio, a research seminar on spatial analysis, and a lecture course on urban design and spatial formation at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard College from 2015-2018. Dr. Guan is a consultant for the PEAK Urban program at COMPAS, University of Oxford and the World Bank urban development sector.
He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. His recent publications including using cellular automata models to investigate network of cities and towns:
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Liu, Z., Liu, C., Guan, C. (2021) The impacts of the built environment on the incidence rate of COVID-19: A case study of King County, Washington. Sustainable Cities & Society. (SCIE) Pre-proof. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103144
Guan, C., Song, J., Keith, M., Zhang, B., Akiyama Y., Da, L., Shibasaki R., Sato, T. (2021) Seasonal variations of park visitor volume and park service area in Tokyo: A mixed-method approach combining big data and field observations. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 58, 126973 (SCIE & SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126973
Guan, C.*, Rowe, P. (2021) Beyond big versus small: assessing spatial variation of urban neighborhood block structures in high-density cities. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 3, 37-53. (CNKI) https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-021-00074-7
Gómez, J., Guan, C.*, Tripathy, P., Duque, J., Passos, S., Keith, M., Liu, J. (2021) Analyzing the spatiotemporal uncertainty in urbanization predictions. Remote Sensing, 13(3), 512 (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030512
Zhang, Y., Guan, C.#, Chen, B., Zeng, L., Zhang, B. (2021) Tracking embodied water uses and GHG emissions along Chinese supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125590
Altinkaya-Genel O., Guan C.* (2021) Assessing urbanization dynamics in Turkey’s Marmara Region using CORINE data between 2006 and 2018. In a special issue - CORINE Land Cover System: Limits and Challenges for Territorial Studies and Planning. Remote Sensing. 13(4), 664 (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040664
Guan, C.*, Song, J., Keith, M., Akiyama Y., Shibasaki R., Sato, T. (2020) Delineating urban park catchment areas using mobile phone data: A case study of Tokyo. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 81, 101474. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101474
Guan, C.*, Srinivasan, S., Zhang, B., Da, L., Liu, J., Nielsen, C. (2020) The influence of neighborhood types and accessibility on active transport in China’s growing cities. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 80. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102273
Guan, C.*, Peiser, R.B., Fu, S., Zhou, C. (2020) New towns in China: The Liangzhu story. In Peiser, R., and Forsyth, A. Eds. Toward Twenty-First Century New Towns. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Yao, Z., Yang, J., Liu, J., Keith, M., Guan, C.* (2021) Comparing Tweet sentiment in megacities using machine learning techniques: In the midst of COVID-19. Cities 116, 103273. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103273
Guan, C.* and Forsyth, A. (2020) The influence of urban form and socio-demographics on active transport: A 40-neighborhoods study in Chengdu, China. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 13(1), 367-388. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2020.1697
Zhang, Y., Wu, X., Guan, C., Zhang, B. (2021) Methane emissions of major economies in 2014: A household-consumption-based perspective. Science of the Total Environment, 768, 144523. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144523
Guan, C.* (2020) Landscape sensitivity of the border zone between wilderness and cities in the Appalachian Trail region. In Wang, J. and Cui, K. Eds. Frontiers of Urban Design Development, 533-539. Higher Education Press. International Top-level Forum on Engineering Science and Technology Development Strategy, Chinese Academic of Engineering. http://www.hep.com.cn/book/details?uuid=536c85f7-1694-1000-88e8-4f70147a3a5d
Tan, J., Guan, C.* (2021) Are people happier in locations of high property value? Spatial temporal analytics of activity frequency, public sentiment and housing price using Twitter data. Applied Geography 132, 102474 (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102474
Guan, C.*, Rowe, P. (2020) Multi-criteria locational analysis for retail development in small towns. In Wu, W. and Wang, Y. Eds. The Geography of Mobility, Wellbeing and Development: Understanding China’s Transformations through Big Data. Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy, ISBN 9781138081321. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112954
Srinivasan, S., Guan, C.*, Nielsen, C. (2020) Built environment, income and travel behavior: Change in the city of Chengdu, China 2005-2016. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 14:10, 749-760. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2019.1625088
Gao, J., Guan, C., Zhang, B. (2020) China’s CH4 emissions from coal mining: A review of current bottom-up inventories. Science of the Total Environment, 725. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138295
Zhao, X., Wu, X., Guan, C., Ma, R., Nielsen, C., Zhang, B. (2020) Linking Agricultural GHG emissions to Global Trade Network. Earth’s Future, 8(3) e2019EF001361. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001361
Liu, Y., Wu, X., Sun, X., Guan, C., Zhang, B., Wu, X. (2020) Exports-driven primary energy requirements and the structural paths of Chinese regions. Frontiers of Earth Science. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-020-0822-4
Zhang, B., Zhang, Y., Wu, X., Guan, C., Qiao, H. (2020) How the manufacturing economy impacts China's energy-related GHG emissions? Insights from structural path analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 743. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140769
Guan, C. (2019) Spatial distribution of high-rise buildings and its relationship to public transit development in Shanghai. Transport Policy 81, 371-380. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.09.004
Guan, C.*, Srinivasan, S., Nielsen, C. (2019) Does neighborhood form influence low-carbon transportation in China? Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 67, 406-420. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2018.12.015
Guan, C.*, Keith, M., Hong, A. (2019) Designing walkable cities and neighborhoods in the era of urban big data. Urban Planning International 34 (5) 9-15. DOI:10.22217/upi.2019.389
Guan, C.* (2019) Spatial metrics of urban form: measuring compact cities in China. In Lin, Z. and Gamez, J. Eds. Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-351-20683-9.
Han, M., Zhang, B., Zhang, Y., Guan, C*. (2019) Agricultural CH4 and N2O emissions of major economies: Consumption vs. production-based perspectives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 210, 276-286. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.018
Wang, Y., Chen, B., Guan, C., Zhang, B. (2019) Evolution of methane emissions in global supply chains during 2000-2012. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 150, 1-11, 104414. (SCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104414
Guan S, Han M, Wu X, Guan, C., Zhang, B. (2019) Exploring energy-water-land nexus in national supply chains: China 2012. Energy, 185, 1225-1234. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.07.130
Guan, C.*, Rowe, P. (2018). In pursuit of a well-balanced network of cities and towns: A case study of the Changjiang Delta Region. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48 (3), 1-19. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317696073
Guan, C.*, Peiser, R. (2018) Accessibility, urban form, and property value: A study of Pudong, Shanghai. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11(1) 1057-1080. (SSCI) http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2018.1318
Guan, C.*, Mehrotra, R (2018) Can urban design intervention at scale contribute to affordable housing in dense cities? Three paradigms of spatial strategy in Mumbai, India. Urban Design, 2018(2): 32-43. Tsinghua University Press: http://urbandesign.tsinghuajournals.com
Guan, C.* (2018) Urban form and digitalization of urban design. Urban Planning International. 33 (1), 22-27. http://www.upi-planning.org/EN/Magazine/Show.aspx?ID=47301 In Chinese. DOI:10.22217/upi.2017.540
Zhang, B, Zhao, X, Wu, X, Han, M, Guan, C*., Song, S (2018) Consumption-based accounting of global anthropogenic CH4 emissions. Earth’s Future, 6 (9) 1349-1363. (SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000917
Ma, R., Chen, B., Guan, C., Meng, J., Zhang, B. (2018) Socioeconomic determinants of China’s growing CH4 emissions. Journal of Environmental Management, 228, 103-116. (SCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.08.110
Guan, C.*, Rowe, P. (2017). Should big cities grow? Scenario-based cellular automata urban growth modeling and policy applications. Journal of Urban Management, 5(2), 65-78. (ESCI). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2017.01.002
Guan, C.*, Rowe, P. (2016). The concept of urban intensity and China’s townization policy: Cases from Zhejiang Province. Cities, 55, 22-41. (SSCI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.03.012
Rowe, P., Guan, C.* (2017). Striking balances between China’s urban communities, blocks and their layouts. Time and Architecture, 6, 29-33. In Chinese.
