Tingwei Zhang, Vita

Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program

PERMANENT POSITION:

Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program

EDUCATION:

· Ph.D. Public Policy Analysis-Urban Planning and Policy

School of Urban Planning and Policy

University of Illinois at Chicago Spring 1992

· Ph.D. Student Department of City and Regional Planning

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1988

· M.A. (Urban Planning) Department of Architecture

Tongji University, Shanghai, China Spring 1981

· B.A. Department of Architecture

Tongji University, Shanghai, China Fall 1968

· Certificate, United Nations Training Center for Senior Planners

University of Leuven, Belgium Spring 1986

POSITIONS HELD:

· Research Assistant Professor

Center for Urban Economic Development

School of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

University of Illinois at Chicago

· Deputy Director and Associate Professor

Department of Urban Planning

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

· Deputy Director, China National Training Center for Planning Directors

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

· Books and Book Chapters (* in Chinese)

Globalization, Market Reform, and the New Chinese City (Chapter 2: Government, Marketplace, and Development Pattern: A Comparative Study on Growth in Shanghai and Chicago)Editor: John Logan Blackwell, N.Y. in process, 2001

· Global Social Policy (Chapter 3: Public Participation in China’s Urban Development) Editor: Stuart Nagel Marcel Dekker, Inc. N.Y., N.Y. in process, 2000

· People and the River (Chapter 7: Open Space Needs in Chicago’s Chinatown Area)

National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, Milwaukee, WI 1998

· Citizen, Local Government and the Development of Chicago’s Near South Side

Published by UNITED NATIONS (UNRISD), Switzerland 1998

Co-author with David Ranney and Pat Wright

· *Principles of City Construction and City Planning (Co-author with Yan Yishan)

Tianjin Press, Tianjin, China 1993

· Housing Policy under a Planned Economy: Towards an Alternative Housing Policy in China

Dissertation, Chicago, USA 1992

· *City Planning in World's Main Cities (Editor and co-author with Tao Songling)

Tongji University Press, Shanghai, China 1990

· *Urban Planning for Small Towns (Co-author with Tao Songling)

China Construction Industry Press, Beijing, China 1986

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

International development, urban development, urban sprawl, open space.