School of Social & Political Sciences

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

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2026

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2026) "You don’t need to be a conspiracist to have concerns" - the imperative of proactive conversations. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2026.2635373) (Early Online Publication)

2025

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) A ‘space-order’ publicness model: interpreting public space development in Shanghai’s people-oriented urban regeneration. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2025.2570536) (Early Online Publication)

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281, Wang, Ying, White, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Inch, Andy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X and Payne, Sarah (2025) Urban Retrofit: A Systematic Evidence Review. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) Planning Experiments for Quality and Community: an Exploratory Study of Micro-Regeneration In Shanghai Through the Lens Of Story Arc. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2025, Belfast, 10-12 September 2025. (Unpublished)

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281, Wang, Ying, Hickman, Hannah, O'Brien, Philip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, White, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Payne, Sarah and Inch, Andy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X (2025) From Building Retrofit to Urban Retrofit: Preliminary Reflections from an International Evidence Review. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2025, Belfast, 10-12 September 2025. (Unpublished)

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) Places, people, and possibilities of urban retrofit. [Website]

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Number of items: 6.

Articles

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2026) "You don’t need to be a conspiracist to have concerns" - the imperative of proactive conversations. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2026.2635373) (Early Online Publication)

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) A ‘space-order’ publicness model: interpreting public space development in Shanghai’s people-oriented urban regeneration. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2025.2570536) (Early Online Publication)

Research Reports or Papers

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281, Wang, Ying, White, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Inch, Andy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X and Payne, Sarah (2025) Urban Retrofit: A Systematic Evidence Review. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Conference or Workshop Item

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) Planning Experiments for Quality and Community: an Exploratory Study of Micro-Regeneration In Shanghai Through the Lens Of Story Arc. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2025, Belfast, 10-12 September 2025. (Unpublished)

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281, Wang, Ying, Hickman, Hannah, O'Brien, Philip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-706X, White, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Payne, Sarah and Inch, Andy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X (2025) From Building Retrofit to Urban Retrofit: Preliminary Reflections from an International Evidence Review. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2025, Belfast, 10-12 September 2025. (Unpublished)

Website

Zhu, Jingyi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1338-8281 (2025) Places, people, and possibilities of urban retrofit. [Website]

This list was generated on Sat Mar 28 00:12:47 2026 GMT.

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)

(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 (2022) RETHINKING PUBLICNESS: MAKING PUBLIC SPACE IN AN «EXCELLENT GLOBAL CITY» AND THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF PEOPLE-ORIENTEDNESS Arbor Jingyi Zhu. ISSN 0210-1963 (doi: 10.3989/arbor.2022.803-804014)

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