Dr Jingyi Zhu

  • Research Associate (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

email: Jingyi.Zhu@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

119, 25-29 Bute Gardens, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RS

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281

Biography

With training in urban planning, urban design, and architectural design, Jingyi is a qualitative researcher committed to understanding the complex ways and processes through which people inhabit and engage with the urban environment. Her research centres on three key themes: public space and publicness; actors and processes of place-making; and urban design governance and place quality.

Research interests

My research, sitting at the interface of urban planning and urban design, focuses on inclusive, socially just and sustainable placemaking.

I have two distinct research themes of a) public space and publicness, b) actors and processrs and place-making, and c) urban design governance and place quality.

My research approach centres on urban placemaking processes as involving complex social practices, diverse urban actors and their respective visions and actions. I investigate how such complexities of the urban and built environment are produced, experienced, and used. 

Research groups

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Jingyi Zhu (2025) Public space and its publicness in people-oriented urban regeneration: A case study of Shanghai Journal of Urban Affairs Crossref. (doi: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2279597)

Matthew Carmona, Jingyi Zhu, Wendy Clarke (2025) Equity in quality: delivering high quality design in disadvantaged areas Journal of Urban Design Jingyi Zhu. ISSN 1469-9664 (doi: 10.1080/13574809.2025.2456260)

Jingyi Zhu (2024) Public space research inspired by ‘heterotopia’: A tentative discussion Territorio della Ricerca su Insediamenti e Ambiente. Rivista internazionale di cultura urbanistica Jingyi Zhu. (doi: 10.6093/2281-4574/11014)

Jingyi Zhu (2023) Micro-regeneration in Shanghai and the public-isation of space Habitat International Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102741)

Jingyi Zhu (2022) Repensar lo público: la creación del espacio público en una «ciudad global excelente» y la retórica y la realidad de la orientación hacia las personas Arbor Crossref. (doi: 10.3989/arbor.2022.803-804014)

(2019) 自由之境”的自由与规则——荷兰 Oosterwold“法治规划”实践研究 国际城市规划 Jingyi Zhu. (doi: 10.22217/upi.2017.227)

(2018) “生态”视角下的“城市之城”:来自“博洛尼亚七城”结构规划的思考 国际城市规划 Jingyi Zhu. (doi: 10.22217/upi.2016.107)

Book Section

Jingyi Zhu, Xuewei Chen (2023) From Reactive to Proactive Participation: A Case Study on Micro-regeneration in Shanghai, China Rethinking Urban Transformations Jingyi Zhu. ISBN 9783031372247 ISSN 2662-6004 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37224-7_3)

(2020) Heterotopia and the Ordering of Contested Urban Public Space: A Case Study of the Sarpi Neighbourhood (Chinatown) in Milan Differences in the City. Postmetropolitan Heterotopias as Liberal Utopian Dreams Jingyi Zhu. ISBN 9781536184969

Conference Proceedings

(2018) From designer to place-promoter: An extended idea of place-making and vitalisation AESOP Annual Congress Jingyi Zhu.

(2016) Heterotopia and equilibrium of contested urban space – an investigation of an accommodation-assimilation mechanism 52nd IsoCarp International Planning Conference Jingyi Zhu.