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. 

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Publications

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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.