Qing Shen

Qing Shen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Design and Planning at University of Washington.  He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley.  His academic interests center on understanding changes in the spatial organization of cities, their socioeconomic impacts, and their implications for urban transportation planning and policymaking.  Author of numerous scholarly publications, Professor Shen has developed new methodological frameworks for analyzing urban spatial structure, examined the social consequences of automobile-oriented metropolitan development, and investigated the differential impacts of information and communication technologies on various population groups.  His work has been recognized by the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) with a Horwood Critique Prize and by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) with an Emerging Scholar Paper Award in spatial analysis and modeling specialty.  He is a former member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association (from 2000 to 2006), and he currently serves on the editorial boards of three journals: Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Transport and Land Use, and Urban Planning International. He served for many years as a member of the Committee on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).  He played a leading role in founding the International Association for China Planning (IACP).

Professor Shen was educated in China (Zhejiang University), Canada (University of British Columbia) and the United States.  Before joining the University of Washington faculty in 2009, he was Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park. He started his academic career at MIT as an assistant professor in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor in 1999.  In 2005, he was appointed by the President of Nanjing University in China as the first holder of Siyuan Chair Professorship, an endowed visiting position.  In 2009, he was appointed by Tongji University as a Tongji Chair Professor. In collaboration with colleagues in China, he is engaged in research on land use and transportation problems in Chinese cities.

Selected Publications

Pan H X, Shen Q, Zhang M, 2009, “Influence of Urban Form on Travel Behaviour in Four Neighbourhoods of Shanghai” Urban Studies 46 275 - 294

Zhang F, Shen Q, Clifton K, 2008, “An Examination of Traveler Responses to Real-time Bus Arrival Information Using Panel Data” Transportation Research Record 2082 107 - 115

Shen Q, Zhang F, 2007, “Land use changes in a pro-smart growth state: Maryland, USA” Environment and Planning A 39 1457 - 1477

Kawabata M, Shen Q, 2006, “Job accessibility as an indicator of auto-oriented urban structure: a comparison of Boston and Los Angeles with Tokyo” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 33 115 - 130

Shen Q, Sanchez T W, 2005, “Residential location, transportation, and welfare-to-work in the United States: a case study of Milwaukee” Housing Policy Debate 16 393 - 431

Dawkins C, Shen Q, Sanchez T W, 2005, “Race, space, and unemployment duration” Journal of Urban Economics 58 91 - 113

Sanchez T W, Shen Q, Peng Z, 2004, “Transit mobility, jobs access, and low-income labor participation in U.S. metropolitan areas” Urban Studies 41 1313 - 1331

Shen Q, 2003, “Updating spatial perspectives and analytical frameworks in urban research”, in Spatially Integrated Social Science Eds M Goodchild, D Janelle (Oxford University Press, London) pp 263 - 279

Shen Q, Kawabata M, 2003, “Reexamining the geography of the urban labor market: a case study of the San Francisco Bay Area”, in Integrated Land Use & Environmental Models Ed S Guhathakurta (Springer-Verlag, Berlin) pp 197 - 214

Shen Q, 2001, “A spatial analysis of job openings and access in a U.S. metropolitan area” Journal of the American Planning Association 67 53 - 68

Shen Q, 2000, “New telecommunications and residential location flexibility” Environment and Planning A 32 1445 - 1463

Shen Q, 2000, “An approach to representing the spatial structure of the information society” Urban Geography 21 543 - 560

Shen Q, 2000, “Spatial and social dimensions of commuting” Journal of the American Planning Association 66 68 - 82

Zhang M., Shen Q, Sussman J, 1999, “Strategies to improve job accessibility – a case study of Tren Urbano in the San Juan metropolitan region” Transportation Research Record 1669 53 - 60

Shen Q, 1999, “Transportation, telecommunications, and the changing geography of opportunity” Urban Geography 20 334 - 355

Shen Q, 1998, “Spatial technologies, accessibility, and the social construction of urban space” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 22 447 - 464

Zhang M, Shen Q, Sussman J, 1998, “Job accessibility in the San Juan metropolitan region – implications for rail transit benefit analysis” Transportation Research Record 1618 22 - 31

Shen Q, 1998, “Location characteristics of inner-city neighborhoods and employment accessibility of low-wage workers” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 25 345 - 365

Shen Q, 1997, “Urban transportation in Shanghai, China: problems and planning implications” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 21 589 - 606

Shen Q, 1996, “Spatial impacts of locally enacted growth controls: the San Francisco Bay Region in the 1980s” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 23 61 - 91

Shen Q, 1994, “An application of GIS to the measurement of spatial autocorrelation” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 18 167 - 191

Landis J (Primary Author), Bradshaw T, Hall P, Teitz M, Egan E, Pamuk A, Shen Q, Simpson D, 1993 How Shall We Grow: Alternative Futures for the Greater Bay Region (California Policy Seminar, Berkeley, CA)

Meier R L and Shen Q, 1991, “The urban ecosystem approach: planning and designing for the long term in coastal China” TRIALOG 28 30 - 33

Kroll C, Landis J, Shen Q, Stryker S, 1990, “The economic impacts of the Loma Prieta earthquake: a focus on small business” Berkeley Planning Journal 5 39 - 58