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.

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

• Place & built environment
• Urban Transformations & Transitions

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