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Jiawen Yang

Assistant Professor

City and Regional Program
College
of Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology

204 Architecture Building East
Atlanta, GA 30332

jy78@mail.gatech.edu
404-385-7215

 

 

 

Education

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 2005

Peking (Beijing) University, Beijing, China

Master of Science (Human Geography), 2000
Bachelor of Science (Economic Geography) 1997.
Certificate in Computer Science, 1997.

Courses Taught

 

Economic Analysis for Planning

Advanced Geographic Information Systems

Transportation and Geographic Information Systems

Transportation Planning Methods and Investment Decisions

Planning Studio

 

Recent conferences & symposia

 

 

June 2010, “Density and Polycentrality: Planning for Healthy Cities,” 2010 International Conference on Urban Development and Planning, Qinhuangdao, China

 

June 2010, “Density vs. Polycentrality: a Multi-decade Analysis of the Transportation Impacts of Large Scale Built-Environment,” 4th Annual Conference for the International Association of China Planning, Shanghai, China

 

April 2010, “Impacts of Large Scale Built-Environment on Individual life styles,“ Annual conference of American Association of Geographers, Washington DC.

 

Jan 2010, “Reforming Surface Transportation Finance and Planning For China’s Megacities”, Annual Conference of Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. 

 

Jan 2010, “The spatial and Social Characteristics of Urban Transportation in Beijing”, Annual Conference of Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. 

 

Jan 2010, “Contained and Balanced Development in Beijing: What does it say about Metropolitan Transportation”, 13th NACOTA/WCTA Annual Technical Symposium on Sustainable Transportation Development in China Washington DC.

 

Recent Articles

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2010, “Concepts of Space and Place for Strategic Spatial Planning”, Journal of American Planning Association, forthcoming book review in Autumn issue.

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2010, “The Spatial and Social Characteristics of Urban Transportation in Beijing”, Transportation Research Record (Accepted).

 

Shen, Jingzhen and Jiawen Yang, 2010, “The Internationalization of the Architecture Design in Beijing: Touching the Pulse of Globalization”, Journal of Architecture and Planning Research (Accepted)

Yang, Jiawen and Joseph Ferreira, 2009, “Informing the Public of Transportation-Land Use Connections,” Transportation Research:  Part C, 17(1): 27-37.

 

Yang, Jiawen, Jian Feng and Ralph Gakenheimer, 2009, “The Physical and Social Dimension of Job-Housing Balance in Urban China”, Chapter 11 in Smart Growth in China, Y. Song and C. Ding (eds), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Press. 

 

Yang, Jiawen, “Spatial Planning in Asia: Planning and Developing Megacities and Megaregions,” 2009, chapter 3 in Megaregions: Planning for Global Competiveness, C. Ross (eds), Island Press.

 

Ross, Catherine, , Jason Barringer, Jiawen Yang, Myjoung Woo, Jessica Doyle and Harry West, 2008, Magaregions: Literature Review of the Implications for U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Transportation Planning”, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, FHWA, Available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/megaregions.htm

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2008, “Policy Implications of Excess Commuting: Examining the Impacts of Changes in Metropolitan Spatial Structure,” Urban Studies, 45: 391-405

 

Yang, Jiawen and Ferreira, Joseph, 2008, “Choices vs. Choice Sets: a Commuting Spectrum Method for Representing Job-Housing Possibilities,” Environment and Planning B, 35(2) 364 – 378

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2008, “Computing Accessibility Measures with Integrating GIS and DBMS”, in Plan, Build, and Manage Transportation Infrastructure in China, edited by Rongfang Liu, DongYuan Yang, and Jian Lu, Reston, VA: ASCE/T&DI. pp. 58-66.

 

Yang, Jiawen and Catherine Ross, 2007, “Implementing Spatial Planning in China’s Market Economy,” Urban Planning Forum (in Chinese), No. 6.

Yang, Jiawen and Ralph Gakenheimer, 2007, “Assessing the Mobility and Accessibility Consequences of Land Use Transformation in Urban China”, Habitat International, 31: 345-353. 

 

Yang, Jiawen, and Changchun Feng, Guangzhong Cao, 2007, “Land and Transportation Development in China: An Economic Analysis of Government Behavior,” Journal of Transportation Research Board.  No. 2038, pp. 78-83.

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2007, “Letter to Editor: Understanding Urban Planning in China,” Journal of American Planning Association. 73: 2.

 

Gakenheimer, Ralph, and Jiawen Yang, 2006, “Land and Access in Chinese Cities”, Urban Planning International (in Chinese), No. 6.

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2006, “Transportation Implications of Land Development in a Transitional Economy: Evidence from Housing Relocation in Beijing, China,” Journal of Transportation Research Board. No. 1954, pp. 7-14. 

 

Yang, Jiawen, 2005, “Commuting Impacts of Spatial Decentralization: A comparison of Boston and Atlanta,” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 5, 69-78. (First place winner for M. Jarvin Emerson Award).

 

Yang, Jiawen, and Joseph Ferreira, 2005, “Evaluating Measures of Job-housing Proximity: Boston and Atlanta, 1980-2000,” In K. Krizek and D. Levinson (Ed.), Access to Destinations. Elsevier Ltd, pp 171-193.

 

Recent grants

 

Collaborative Data Development for City Atlanta Government, 2010, the Atlanta City Government.

 

Aerotropolis Atlanta Project, 2010, with Bert Bras and Nancey Leigh, grant from the UTC and the Ford Company.

 

Impacts of Large Scale Built-Environment on the Obesity Epidemics, 2009, with Steve French, grant from the Center for Disease Control.

 

Location Dynamics of Manufacturing Activities: Pulp-paper Industry in China, 2009, Alfred P Sloan Foundation grant (through the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies).

 

Spatial Structure and Transportation in China’s Megacities, 2008, International fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

 

Megaregion and Transportation Planning, 2007, Co-PI (with Catherine Ross as PI), 2007, Federal Highway Administration research grant.

 

Metropolitan Planning for Evolving Life Styles, 2007, Georgia Tech Foundation.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jiawen Yang
Assistant Professor
jy78@mail.gatech.edu

GT
Georgia Institute of Technology

CRP

City and Regional Planning Program