Ting Wei Zhang Ph.D., Associate Professor

Tingwei Zhang teaches urban planning skills, urban design and international planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the director of Asia and China Research Program in Great Cities Institute of College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. His research interests cover urban development and policy issues in China, the US, and Southeast Asian nations, in addition to urban design. He has published several books and over 100 journal articles in the US, China and European countries. He serves as the founding president of International Association for China Planning (IACP) in the US, and member of several planning and architecture journals in China and the US.

BE (Architecture) Tongji University, Shanghai, China (1968); ME (City Planning) Tongji University, Shanghai, China (1981); PhD (Urban Planning and Policy) University of Illinois at Chicago (1992).

Courses

UPP502 Planning Skills
UPP525 US and World Cities
UPP552 Urban Design Studio
UPP555 Culture and Urban Design
UPP594 Local Government’s Function in Market Economy

Research

Urban development and policy issues in China, the US and Southeast Asian nations Urban design

Publications

Shopping Mall Today: Location Selection, Planning and Design. China Architecture & Building Press, 2007, with Wang Yun

Design and Development of Waterfront Areas. Tongji University Press, China, 2002, with Feng Hui and Peng Zhiquan

Citizen, Local Government and the Development of Chicago’s near South Side, Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) 1997, with D. Ranney and P. Wright Guide of Western Planning Literatures for Planners in China. Urban Planning Forum, Series No.170, 2007 (4).17-39, 2007, with R. LeGates

From intercity competition to collaborative planning: the case of the Yangtze River Delta. Urban Affairs Review, Vol.42 (1) 26-56, 2006

Curriculum Vita

Contact

tzhang@uic.edu
Room 235 (MC 348)
312-355-0303