Enjia Zhang

• Doctor of Engineering
• Lecturer at Beijing University of Technology

The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in substituting or complementing offline mobility has been widely studied. However, how online attractiveness influences the impact of transportation accessibility at different scales on non-work mobility remains unclear. This study explores the mediating and moderating effects of online at...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, marked by emerging/disruptive technologies like mobile internet, big data, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), immersive media (VR/AR/MR), and the Internet of Things (IoT), is transforming cities and promoting urban development. This paper argues that these technologies foster urban studies and implementation i...

Third places offer a creative alternative for both work from traditional office and home, which are becoming increasingly popular. Previous studies primarily focused on qualitative analyses and survey investigations, lacking quantitative studies exploring remote work in third places. In this study, we proposed a quantitative approach to identify an...

Despite the importance of social justice and community attachment for subjective well-being (SWB), the existing research fails to adequately examine these factors in urban emergencies. This study develops a theoretical framework to elucidate the roles of environment perception, social justice, and community attachment in SWB during urban emergencie...

Cycling records from emerging dockless bike-sharing services provide new opportunities to gain insight into the interactions between multiple fine-scale cycling characteristics and built environmental elements. Using Beijing as an example and the street as the analytic unit, this study examined the associations between three cycling characteristics...

The essential role of urban streetscape skeletons in fostering vibrant streets has been repeatedly emphasized. However, most research focused on the macro-scale or mesoscale urban form or measuring streetscape skeletons using quantitative methods, failing to systematically examine the relationship between the street-level urban form with urban acti...

With the growing penetration of information and communication technologies, social media platforms have become one of the most frequently used virtual spaces in daily life, producing spatiality with new logic and structure. However, few studies have examined the difference of visiting preferences in virtual space due to the lack of proper benchmark...

Online activities based on various social media applications are gradually becoming a vital social activity issue in the mobile Internet era. This study aims to reveal the spatial preferences embedded in this new type of urban life to better plan and design future cities. With two different types of social media data—online location tagging from We...

The emerging new data environment formed by big and open data provides a lens for a more detailed understanding and description of the entangling physical and social urban space. Since 2010, more than a dozen new labs, departments, and schools have been applying this new data in urban planning and design in various ways. In this context, this chapt...

Shrinking cities as a phenomenon expanding rapidly in the world have aroused great interest in China in recent years. Hegang is a city in the northeast China, which has been losing its population and almost finished depleting the existing mineral resources, accompanied by the surplus of land and buildings, and the decline in the quality of space. T...

As what we have described in Chap. 1, advances in ICTs (information and communication technologies) and intelligent manufacturing bring changes in daily life and urban space. A series of new technologies that have a disruptive impact on urban form, such as intelligent logistics, VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), UAV (unmanned aerial veh...

The human-centered perspective has been widely mentioned in the world. Accompanying with the raising call for human-centered consideration in urban design, a series of new data environment and new analytical methods bring new potentials for achieving this goal. For instance, the new data environment consisting of big data and open data could provid...

Data Augmented Design (DAD) can be applied to the redevelopment-oriented urban design, which helps find problems via an existing condition analysis based on multidimensional data, and quantitatively evaluate the implementation of designs after reconstruction. Based on this framework, a data adaptive urban design solution for redevelopment-oriented...

As one of the essential parts in urban design practice, the methodology about case study meets new opportunities in the new data environment. Quantitative research framework aiming at rational and effective case study is the second type of Data Augmented Design (DAD), which is applicable to expansion-oriented design. The specific framework is const...

With the environmental improvement and smart city construction, the call for smart design has risen great attention. In addition to the future human settlement we interpret in Chap. 9, the new way for recreation and tourism needs also to be discussed. This chapter takes the Huangguan Island as the design site and combines the traditional spatial in...

The framework described in Chap. 7 is also applied in the official planning workshop of Xiong’an New Area. As the establishment of the Xiong’an New Area is a major historic and strategic choice for China, its spatial planning is the fundamental guideline for its development. This chapter introduces the work we have done in this workshop, which aims...

In the context of the fourth generation of the industrial revolution, emerging technologies have impacted almost all fields worldwide. Some changes are taking place in urban life and urban space under the influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). These changes will influence the way we understand cities and the generation of f...

There are many famous waterfront art and cultural districts in the world, among which the urban renewal of industrial heritage is an important topic. This chapter interprets another design case of the first type of Data Augmented Design (DAD), which takes the Minsheng Wharf in Shanghai as the design site. A wide range of multisource data is analyze...

This book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented Design (DAD) and its evolution and progresses, highlighting data driven methods, urban planning and design applications and related theories. The authors draw on many kinds of data, including big, open, and conventional data, and discuss...

Small public spaces are the key built environment elements that provide venues for various of activities. However, existing measurements or approaches could not efficiently and effectively quantify how small public spaces are being used. In this paper, we utilized a deep convolutional neural network to quantify the usage of small public spaces thro...