Jinliu Chen

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Suzhou City University

Urban regeneration is pivotal to sustainable development, requiring innovative strategies that align social dynamics with spatial configurations. Traditional paradigms increasingly fail to tackle systemic challenges—neighborhood alienation, social fragmentation, and resource inequality—due to their inability to integrate human-centered spatial gove...

Amidst rapid global urbanization, the resultant community decline has exacerbated issues such as social segregation, resource misallocation, and neighborhood alienation. In particular, heritage communities face unique challenges as standardized, project-based renewals frequently neglect their cultural and historical attributes, thereby intensifying...

Rapid urbanization has accelerated the transformation of community dynamics, highlighting the critical need to understand the interplay between subjective perceptions and objective built environments in shaping life satisfaction for sustainable urban development. Existing studies predominantly focus on linear relationships between isolated factors,...

The prevailing social-spatial disorder within urban settings has become pervasive, particularly in the misalignment between policy formulation and social perception. This underscores the potential for effectively promoting sustainable comprehensive planning coordination by measuring commute and life satisfaction metrics. However, more comprehensive...

This study integrates mobile sensing technologies into a "space-perception-behavior" framework, grounded in multidimensional embodied cognition, to evaluate the spatial quality of cultural heritage tourism in classical Suzhou gardens, China. "Space" level, machine learning technology is employed for the image semantic segmentation of panoramic imag...

Rapid urbanisation has intensified the urban heat island effect, and the integrated development of metropolitan areas has further exacerbated urban thermal vulnerability. This study proposes an ecological planning approach based on a “source-corridor-network”framework to enhance urban climate resilience and mitigate high temperatures. This approach...

Under the background of the transformation of resource-based cities, heritage as the symbolic cultural representation plays a synergistic role in revitalizing urban vibrancy. A majority of contemporary research focuses on specific heritage restoration and renovation. However, scant literature has been concerned with an integrated heritage corridor...

This study investigates the extent to which and how regional cooperation influences urban greenspace exposure inequality within China's megacity-regions. By employing a novel theoretical framework-the Greenspace Exposure Gini Index (GEGI)-which incorporates indicators of greenspace availability, proximity, and inequality, a case study of the Guangd...

The renovation and revitalization of vernacular architecture are pivotal in sustainable rural development. In regions like Shangri-La, traditional structures not only safeguard cultural heritage but also provide a foundation for enhancing local communities’ living conditions. However, these villages face growing challenges, including infrastructure...

The intersection of environmental conservation and urban development has garnered global attention. This study aims to contribute to the theoretical foundation and policy recommendations for the collaborative governance of territory and the natural environment in metropolitan agglomerations. Employing a comprehensive Morphological Spatial Pattern A...

COVID-19 brought tremendous disruption to daily life, accelerated urban digital transformation, and prompted sustainable improvement in socio-spatial development. The emergence of analytic technologies stimulates possibilities for integrating socio-spatial relationships, and new urban research methods and assessment systems are required, which are...

The Chinese urban regeneration movement underscores a “people-oriented” paradigm, aimed at addressing urban challenges stemming from rapid prior urbanization, while striving for high-quality and sustainable urban development. At the community level, fostering quality through a socially sustainable perspective (SSP) is a pivotal strategy for people-...

The 2023 SDGs report underscores the prolonged disruption of COVID-19 on community living spaces, infrastructure, education, and income equality, exacerbating social and spatial inequality. Against the backdrop of the dual impact of significant events and the emergence of digital technologies, a coherent research trajectory is essential for charact...

历史文化街区存在现状复杂性、改造渐进性、功能不确定性等问题，其更新面临诸多挑战。城市更 新设计需要兼顾文化传承与功能再生，以实现空间活力的 修复。以往研究发现，数字技术和文化创意在复兴城市空 间中具有协同促进作用。以苏州阊胥路创业园与仓街三官 弄更新项目为例，应用设计研究方法，在历史文化街区保 护与发展的语境下探索以"数字+文创"引导城市更新的 相关设计策略，以及通过在地化的场所营造和创新场景设 计，实现历史文化街区空间活力复兴的实施路径。通过对 "数字+文创"设计策略的适应性、协同性与可实施性进 行深入分析探讨，为同类型历史文化街区的控保地块更新 提供参考。 Historic urban areas present challenges for regeneration due to...

Accelerated urbanization has led to regional disruptions and exacerbated imbalances in spatial quality, social cohesion, and inequalities. Urban regeneration, as a mitigating strategy for these disruptions, faces significant social challenges, particularly at the community scale. This study addresses the existing research gap by comprehensively rev...

With the development of the information technology, there are all kinds of data in our urban life. Among them, social media data represented by Weibo check-in data provides the possibility for planners to explore the dynamic relationship between social activities and the urban environment. This study uses Suzhou's Weibo check-in data as a carrier t...

As increasing attention is given to the impact of the built environment on citizens’ well-being and health, the role and performance of urban parks have to be carefully considered. The research presented in this paper focuses on the efficiency of urban parks concerning their visitor flow and explores an aspect that has not been studied so far: the...

Community regeneration could enhance vitality, optimize living quality, and integrate the space effectively. Currently, the measurement of community vitality is mainly based on community elements, and the measurement system based on a people- oriented perspective is rarely constructed. Therefore, based on the social sustainability theory, this pape...

Sustainable urban forms (SUF) guide spatial creation, significantly revitalise the development of traditional settlements, and are an essential theoretical support for urban design. At the same time, the emergence of quantitative spatial analysis technology further promotes the visualised evaluation of the performance of spatial vitality in urban d...

China is gradually shifting towards more sustainable urban development, and the local governments are increasingly promoting social and environmentally sustainable spatial planning practices. This article debates the potential contradiction between the goal of a constantly growing urban population and the limits to the consumption of land planned b...

As a result of the rapid urbanisation in China, the ecological system in urban areas has become fragmented, posing a threat to ecological stability. Constructing ecological networks is considered a critical strategy to reconnect habitats, restore ecosystems and improve ecological capacity. This research aims to develop a GIS-based model that can in...

In China’s fourteenth five-year plan, urban regeneration has become one of the most crucial strategies for activating the existing cities. Since creating vibrant urban spaces is a critical component of urban regeneration, understanding the patterns of community vitality helps formulate reactive regeneration policies and design interventions. Howeve...

The urban residential regeneration strongly supported by the 14th five-year plan of China should achieve social sustainability. Assessing residents’ satisfaction with the housing quality and living environment is essential for social sustainability and, therefore, should be considered in any transformation process. This study investigates which fac...

With the 14th Five-Year Plan for Development, China is promoting people-oriented urban regeneration for residential communities built before 2000. Evaluations of quality of life (QoL) and considerations of social sustainability must play an important role in defining people-oriented regeneration projects. Residents’ satisfaction is an important ind...

Sustainable urban form is an important prerequisite to stimulating urban vitality. Under the current urban regeneration movement in China, the transformation and upgrading of old communities mostly focus on renewing facilities and living and building qualities. Coordinating urban regeneration strategies and the changing urban development model to p...

Urban regeneration is mentioned for the first time in the Chinese 14th five-year plan, and its main content is the old communities built before the year 2000. Due to the different construction standards for different communities, the old communities in need of transformation in the current city are referred to as resettlement communities. The exist...

The Central Government of China is promoting both urbanization and urban sustainability beyond mere growth. These two goals clash if the agricultural land consumption for urbanization is drastically reduced. A re-consideration of urban density and compactness, supported by the UN-Habitat’s Urban Agenda III can contribute to address the problem. Wha...