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Tingwei Zhang

 

Dr. Tingwei Zhang is Chair of International Association for China Planning (IACP). A native Shanghainese, he received his college and master education in Tongji University. He then served as Deputy Director of the City Planning Department in Tongji, and Deputy Director of China National Training Center for Planning Directors in the middle1980s. He was awarded “National Outstanding Young Scholar (1978 to 1988)” by China National High Education Committee. He earned a PhD in urban planning and public policy from University of Illinois, and currently is professor and chair of the globalization concentration in the Urban Planning and Policy Program in UIC. He also serves on China National Planning Expert Committee, and on planning advisory committees of several Chinese cities including Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. Dr. Zhang is member of editorial committees of a number of Chinese planning journals, including City Planning Review, Urban Planning Forum, Planners, Planning Overseas, and Time & Architecture.

 

As co-author, Dr. Zhang has published 6 books in China, the US, and Switzerland. He is also the author of over 80 journal articles in China, the US, UK, and France. His research covers a wide range of issues around urban planning practice and theory. In recent years, his research focuses on China’s urban transition.

 

Selected Works
 
Book and Edited Journal Issue

 

Zhang, Tingwei, Feng Hui & Peng Zhiquang. 2002. Design and Development of Waterfront Areas. Tongji University Press, China

 

David Ranney, Pat Wright and Tingwei Zhang, 1997. Citizen, Local Government and the Development of Chicago’s Near South Side , Geneva, Switzerland:  United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

 

Zhang, Tingwei (ed.).1990. City Planning in World's Main Cities. Tongji University Press, Shanghai, China

 

Zhang, Tingwei, 2005 (Guest editor): Urban Planning Overseas: Special Issue: John Friedmann and his contribution to planning, Vol. 20 (5), Beijing, China

                         

Referred Article ( * in Chinese)

 

Zhang, T. 2006. From intercity competition to collaborative planning: the case of the Yangtze River Delta. Urban Affairs Review, Vol.41 (3)
 
*Zhang, T. 2006. Planning theory as an institutional innovation: the non-linear trajectory of the evolution of planning theory. CITY PLANNING REVIEW. Vol. 30 (8) 9-18

 

*Zhang, Tingwei, 2005. Great Joy in Learning: Introducing John Friedmann’s Planning Articles. URBAN PLANNING OVERSEAS. Vol. 20 (5) 1-3
 
*Zhang, Tingwei. 2005. Manufacturing, service industry, and Shanghai’s development strategy. URBAN PLNNING FORUM, Vol.51 (3) 2-8
 
*Zhang, Tingwei. 2004. Neo-liberalism, city management, city governance and city competitiveness in China. CITY PLANNING REVIEW, Vol.28 (5).43-50                                                                   

 

*Zhang, Tingwei. 2004. The role of planner and planner’s ethics in China. CITY PLANNING REVIEW, Vol.28 (3), 66-72                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

*Zhang, Tingwei, 2003. The misunderstood globalization and the misled selling place practice in China. CITY PLANNING REVIEW, Vol.27(8),.6-14                                                                              

*Zhang, Tingwei, 2003. A balance between economic growth and sustainable development: the study of the development of three islands in Shanghai.  URBAN PLNNING FORUM, Vol.44 (2), 5-14     

 

Zhang, Tingwei, 2002. Decentralization, localization, and the emergence of a quasi-participatory decision-making structure in urban development in Shanghai. INTERNATIONAL PLANNING STUDIES, Vol. 7 (4) 303-324

                                                                                                                                   

*Zhang, Tingwei, 2002. The working platform for Chinese planners (Part I) CITY PLANNING REVIEW, Vol. 26 (10).18-23                                                      

 

*Zhang, Tingwei, 2002. The working platform for Chinese planners (Part II) CITY PLANNING REVIEW, Vol. 26 (11) p.16-19                                                           

Zhang, Tingwei, 2002. Challenges Facing Chinese Planners in Transitional China, JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Vol. 22 64-76                                           

 

Zhang, Tingwei. 2002, Urban Development and a Socialist Pro-Growth Coalition in Shanghai, URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW, Vol.37 (4) 475-499                                                            

 

Zhang, Tingwei. 2001. Community Feature and Urban Sprawl: the Case of the Chicago Metropolitan Region, LAND USE POLICY, UK. Vol.18: 221-231                                                                                 

Zhang, Tingwei, 2000. Urban Sprawl in China: Land Market Force and Government’s Role, CITIES: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND STUDIES, Vol. 17(1) 123-135    

 

Book Chapter

 

Zhang, Tingwei. 2004. Chapter 8: Uneven Development among Shanghai’s Three Urban Districts in Restructuring the Chinese City: changing society, economy and space, Edited by L. Ma and F. Wu. London: Routledge, p.138-154

 

Zhang, Tingwei. 2000. Chapter 13: Public Participation in China’s Urban Development, in Handbook of Global Social Policy. Editor: Stuart Nagel, Marcel Dekker, Inc. N.Y., N.Y. p.183-207. 2000

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