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Release date：2021/03/11
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 Our Team at City University of Macau

       

The City University of Macau provides professional talents high-level education in urban planning and design, devoted to help the city of Macau and other related cities achieving effective management of urban development. Out of the sense of responsibility for the city we live in, as well as the foresight on the necessity of urban studies for the future development of the city of Macau, the School of Innovation and Design has set up a major in urban planning and design, committed to research and teaching in urban renewal, waterfront cities, smart cities and other related research directions. The school has leading faculty with excellent research and teaching experience, including Li Chaohuan, the course director of urban planning and design master's degree program, Zhou Long, the course director of design art bachelor's degree program, as well as teachers in the urban planning and design research team such as Lee Mengshun, Huang Guang, Yang Huajie and Yan Xiaoyi. In addition, in response to the considerable demand of the Macau SAR for the talents in the field of design, the City University of Macau has set up the design major in the School of Innovation and Design to cultivate high-quality and creative design professionals. The curriculum adheres to both theoretical foundation and real-world practice, and our training will cultivate our students with solid professional skills and comprehensive knowledge literacy. The faculty have cross-field design capabilities, and their teaching and research cover architectural design (environmental landscape, vernacular architecture, cultural heritage), product design (design psychology) and visual communication design (creative thinking), etc. In the field of design, Wang Pohsun's course director (Master and PhD degree in design), Lee Mengshun, Huang Guang, Xing Yalong, Ren Yujie, Wang Yuya and other teachers are members of the design research team.

Selected publications in recent years

          

In the recent years, the urban planning and design research team has combined the needs and major concerns of the urban planning and development of Macau SAR and Mainland, and has continued to pay attention to the significant topics such as "environmental and health effects of urban patterns", "Urban Land Use Research and Planning", "Urban Transportation Planning" and "Temporal and spatial characteristics of the Covid-19 transmission, and some of the influential articles have been published in international high-level journals. The main research in recent years are as follows:

 

  • Zhou, L., Shen, G.Q., Li, C.S., Chen, T., Li, S.H., Brown, R. (2021). Impacts of land covers on stormwater runoff and urban development: A land use and parcel based regression approach. Land Use Policy, 103, DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105280.
  • Shen, G.Q., Zhou, L., Aydin, G. (2020). A multi-level spatial-temporal model for freight movement: The case of manufactured goods flows on the U.S. highway networks. Journal of Transport Geography, 88, DOI:  10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102868.
  • Quan, S., & Li, C. (2020). Urban form and building energy use: a systematic review of measures, mechanisms, and methodologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.110662.
  • Song, Y., Li, C., Zhou, L., Huang, X., Chen, Y., & Zhang, H. (2020). Factors affecting green building development at the municipal level: a cross-sectional study in China.  Energy and Buildings, 110560.
  • Zhou, L., Li, S., & Li, C. (2020). Visualising the dynamics of COVID-19 cases leading to inbound transmission in Hong Kong. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, DOI: 10.1177/0308518X20961395.
  • Li C., Song Y., Tian L., & Ouyang W. (2020). Urban form, air quality, and cardiorespiratory mortality: a path analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 1202.
  • Chen Y., Song Y., & Li C. (2020). Where do people tweet? the relationship of the built environment to tweeting in Chicago, Sustainable Cities and Society, 52, 1-14. 
  • Li C., Song Y., Kaza N., & Burghardt, R. (2019). Explaining spatial variations in residential energy usage intensity in Chicago: the role of urban form and geomorphometry, Journal of Planning Education and Research, DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19873382.
  • Yang, H., & Wang, L. (2019). Testing the constant commuting time hypothesis amid substantial changes to transportation and land use: case study of Portland, Oregon 1994-2011. 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, USA. ttps://trid.trb.org/view/1572622.
  • Zhou, L. (2018). Correlations of Stormwater Runoff and Quality, Urban Pavement and Property Value by Land Use at the Parcel Level in a Small Sized American City. Water, 11(11), 2369. DOI: 10.3390/w11112369.
  • Wang, L., Gregor, B., Yang, H., Weidner, T., & Knudson, A. (2018). Capturing the built environment-travel interaction for strategic planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11(1), 1287-1308.
  • Wang, L., Gregor B., Yang H., Weinder T., and Knudson T., (2018). Development of a Multi-modal Travel Demand Module for the Regional Strategic Planning Model. 97th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.
  • Zhou, L., Shen, G. Q., Woodfin, T., Chen, T., Song, K. (2018). Ecological and Economic Impacts of Green Roofs and Permeable Pavements at the City level: The Case of Corvallis, Oregon. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61 (3), 430-450.

In response to the trend of global design research and the domestic demand to improve design research, the program of design has combined the principles of science, humanities and art to deepen the research in related fields of design. The research team continues to pay attention to "regional culture and design","cognition", as well as research on "Design with Emotion" and the Macau-related geographical topics. The results in recent years are as follows:

 

  • Wang PH (2020) MACAU・A Creative City and Cultural Design. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. Major publishing house in Chinese, ISBN 9787302572602ZHANG YY and WANG PH (2021)
  • INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF MACAU. Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design（デザイン学研究）.
  • Ren Yujie, Xing Yalong (2020). A study on The Origin and Decorative Features of Kraak Porcelain Unearthed in Macao. Art Panorama，5（51），113-116.
  • ZHOU JL and WANG PH (2020) Research on the Spatial Pattern of Rua Direita in Macao Based on Spatial Syntax. Journal of ZHUANGSHI 324: 136-137.
  • Lee, M.S. (2017). Use BIM to boost the construction of Smart City in Macau，Asia Pacific Forum on Urban Construction and Management Practice 2018，Beijing: Beijing University of Architecture.
  • Lee, M.S. (2017). Revitalization of Unused Ruins Space for Tang Garden, Macau，P394-401，2017 Built Heritage: A cultural motivator for urban and rural development, international academic forum proceedings，Shanghai: Tongji University.
  • WANG PH and LI WC (2017) Protection and Development for Famous Historical and Cultural City Districts in MACAU. Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology 18(4): 1552-1559.
  • Xing YL, Wang PH and Sheng J (2016) Interpretation of the Construction of Characteristic Streets from the Perspective of Environmental Imagery - Taking the St. Lazarus Parish District of Macau as an Example. Journal of Beauty and Times 636: 78-82.

Future work

In recent years, the urban planning and design research team has collected and sorted out relevant geographic information system data for urban research of Macau, providing important data support for continuous research on important urban planning issues such as Macau's urban morphology, urban renewal, and resilient city. In the future, the research team will continue to conduct continuous and in-depth research in the research fields of urban morphology and land use, smart cities, and resilient cities based on the hot and significant topics of Macau and the country, combined with international academic research hotspots in urban planning and development.

 

In response to the regional characteristics of Macau and compact city development factors, the design team focuses on the two developments of "cultural heritage value" and "regional (terroir) architecture", emphasizing Macau's "community participation", focusing on theory and practical analysis to construct the complete theory of Macau's history, heritage and the appropriate regional cultural design of Macau. Their work makes the city of Macau formulate a forward-looking outlook for sustainable development.

 

In addition, the School of Innovation and Design also pays attention to the value and preservation of cultural heritage through the "China-Portuguese Cultural Heritage Protection Science Belt and Road Joint Laboratory", especially in conjunction with the HERCULES laboratory of the University of Évora in Portugal (funded by the EU ERASMUS and Horizon 2020 project). The team analyze the substitutability of the original and contemporary materials used in the architectural heritage and the appropriateness of replacement, and the means to replace the materials without destroying the original heritage to extend the preservation period. It is hoped that through the development of research, it helps protect the historical city of Macau and extend the value of the city.

 

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