Shifu Wang

• PhD
• Head of Department at South China University of Technology

Urban flooding threatens urban resilience and challenges SDGs 11 and 13. This study assesses urban building flood risk in Guangzhou by integrating flood susceptibility with building unction vulnerability. Using a Random Forest (RF) model, it predicts flood susceptibility based on flood records, hydrological, topographical, and anthropogenic feature...

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Collaborative planning practices have recently emerged in China to deal with the complexity and conflicts of interest in urban regeneration. Building on the concept of authoritarian deliberation, this study develops a conceptual framework to examine the reasons for initiating collaborative planning, and its processes and outcomes. Through the case...

Numerous scholars have warned that many cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) are threatened by severe flood risk, which is often underestimated. Considering this, we provide a scenario-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) approach to analyse the roles of adaptation strategies on the environment in response to climate change and flooding r...

Spatial planning is broadly acknowledged for its pivotal role in local climate change adaptation. Nevertheless, variations persist among countries in their perceptions and practices concerning the effectiveness and feasibility of utilizing spatial planning for climate change adaptation. Chinese cities confront the challenges of global warming, rapi...

Public space in old city centre has been facing numerous challenges. Common urban design principles are rooted from environmental behaviour and environmental psychology, and are able to help meeting the new needs of the existing public space. This paper first explains some key urban design ideas towards public space improvement, including redirecti...

Floods caused by extreme weather events and climate change have increased in occurrence and severity all over the world, resulting in devastation and disruption of activities. Researchers and policy practitioners have increasingly paid attention to the role of critical infrastructure (CI) in disaster risk reduction, flood resilience and climate cha...

Collaborative spatial planning with governance for regional integration is significant in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development. The Nansha New District (NND) in Guangzhou can provide an opportunity to explore spatial planning with collaborative governance because it acts as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cross-...

Blue Line planning is one significant approach for spatial planning to deal with water affairs, for instance, ecological improvement, water resources protection and flooding. However, mismatches in multi-level governance, separations between horizontal sectors and blur regulations across policy institutions lead to institutional divergence in water...

With global warming, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme rainfall events, the need for flood climate adaptation planning has become more urgent. At present, there are relatively few planning studies from the perspective of rainstorm climate adaptation in China. In this study, the Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was...

基于环境行为学相互渗透理论和环境心理学人-环境一致性理论，本研究以珠江前航道为例，从活力营造视角构建“人群-环境”活力互动模型，运用多源数据，使用熵权法、全局莫兰指数、局部莫兰指数等计量方法对滨水空间的活力协调度进行定量研究，并对滨水空间人群活力的时空特征、环境活力的空间格局及活力协调度空间格局进行总结，探讨滨水空间的活力协调机制，为提升城市滨水空间的活力协调度提出优化策略。结果表明：1） 滨水空间人群活力具有明显空间分异特征，具有显著的空间正自相关性。随时间推移，热点区域呈现扩大—收敛的空间特征，冷点区域则呈现分散—集中的空间格局；2） 滨水空间环境活力具有显著的空间分异特征，呈现西高东低的空间格局；3） 滨水空间活力协调度呈现高、中和低3种活力协调状态，耦合协调状态的滞后系统主要为环境活...

Understanding residents’ perceptions of the urban form can guide efforts to improve the urban milieu. However, existing research on place perception of historic environment has overlooked the social dimension and focused on isolated historic quarters, resulting in “zones of gentrification.” Thus, a comprehensive analytical framework to the urban im...

Greenways are linear green spaces that are widely incorporated as policy instruments to address various urban issues. Heterogeneity is observed among the forms, functions, and activities of greenways. However, a number of studies have viewed urban greenways as homogeneous landscape features despite the increasing heterogeneity of urban greenways ca...

The modern greenway movement in China originated in 2010 when Guangdong Provincial Government launched the Pearl River Delta greenway network. The PRD greenway planning has strategic objectives that respond to issues associated with urbanization in the region. This article presents a conceptual framework that explains the potential impact of severa...

Urban design for post-earthquake reconstruction emphasizes strategies, safety, memorials and institutional arrangements. It is closely related to earthquake recovery plans. This article reviews general studies on urban design for post-earthquake reconstruction, before focussing on the case of Weizhou Town in Wenchuan County, which in 2008 was sever...

This paper examines the changes in the ways in which villagers have gained access to resources and services over time in what are now “villages in the city” within the city of Guangzhou. It compares and contrasts three periods: the clan-based traditional villages, the commune period and the period since the 1980s (which includes great economic succ...

As with many cities in China experiencing rapid urbanisation, Guangzhou is undergoing a specific form of urban development characterised by the engulfing of rural settlements: a process resulting in the so-called village in the city. This paper uses three modes of economic integration (redistribution, market exchange and reciprocity) as a framework...

A historical analysis is undertaken of the morphological transformation and present form of a 'village in the city' in Guangzhou. The traditional layout was produced mostly by the clan authorities and provided a basic framework for subsequent development. During the process of rapid urbanization formal and informal alliances between new key stakeho...