
Wendy Guan Zhen, Wei Yi TanWestern Norway University of Applied Sciences | HVL · Faculty of Science and Engineering
Wendy Guan Zhen, Wei Yi Tan
PhD
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January 2018 - present
January 2018 - present
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- Senior Researacher
Description
- PI in the NWO funded project R-LINK: Redressing Long-term societal challenges through space for Incremental urban development, small-scale and bottom-up initiatives to produce New Knowledge for vital and inclusive urban regions (2016 - 2021). Coordinator/Lecturer: LUP 35806 Mobility and Network Infrastructures Lecturer: Studio Regional Planning, BSc/MSc Thesis supervision. Research expertise: Land use and transportation integration, mobility issues and institutional perspectives.
January 2014 - December 2018
Education
August 2005 - July 2007
September 2001 - September 2003
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Publications (39)
24/7 environments - those areas where one can shop, eat out, find entertainment, etc., 24 hours a day and seven days a week - can be seen as underpinning urban vitality. But the question arises why they exist in some cities and seemingly not in comparable others. Finding that directly relevant publications in this area proved scarce, an explorative...
The pursuit of transit-oriented development strategies (TODS) is a worldwide phenomenon but knowledge of the process of implementation remains approximate. The ingredients for changing from a non-conducive to a conducive environment for TODS and how that change occurs remain unclear. In cases of successful TODS implementation, it is hypothesised th...
Despite numerous studies on how gender differences affect transport mobility choices and perception of safety, there has been little emphasis on the influence of spatial and socio-cultural constructs on it, particularly in the Southeast Asian context. This article investigates this relation through (1) an on-street survey involving 383 participants...
Urban digital twins are on the rise for decision-making and participation in urban planning. They are compilations of existing techniques and technologies to help us understand our cities more and plan future cities. However, more robust theories and rigorous methods must be developed through increased transparency, evaluations, and discussions. Th...
This conceptual, qualitative interdisciplinary research investigates, systematically and holistically, climate-adaptive spatial design interventions for high-density informal urban areas in arid climates, which remain understudied despite their vulnerability to heat stress and the heat-vulnerable groups populating them. Five streetscape design prot...
‘Wat zou onderzoek naar mislukkingen, gefaalde projecten en de bittere nasmaak daarvan kunnen opleveren?’ vroegen we ons als planologen af. Hoewel er in de wetenschappelijke literatuur kritisch gereflecteerd wordt op de totstandkoming van ‘successen’, zijn er weinig studies die de aard van ‘mislukkingen’ onderzoeken. Daarnaast ontbreekt het aan met...
Current planning policies place great expectations on citizen participation
to resolve complex societal and spatial challenges such as urban renewal
and housing development. This essay explores what transitions in citizen
participation have taken place on this issue in the Netherlands and to what
extent citizen participation in its current form can...
The significance of the bicycle as a form of transport are becoming a part of the traffic management in enhancing sustainable mobility means in cities. The aim of this study is to reveal the natural route choice for bicyclists in the Norwegian city Bergen through snail-trailing. Obtained data through the observations gave us an overview of the cycl...
Enhancing sustainable cities and mobility means is on the agenda in several countries. In Norway this manifests itself as targets on zero-increase in personal vehicle transport, making intergovernmental agreements between state and municipalities about city-growth, and conducting large investments to upgrade the interregional rail network named Int...
A better understanding of how the spatial configuration of cities, understood as urban structure and forms, can achieve sustainable development is needed. This paper presents spatial data and an automated workflow for studying the urban structures (i.e., road and transportation networks) and forms (i.e., building size, position, function and densit...
This article studies how social learning can contribute to change, by applying the concepts of Turning Points and Critical Junctures to the pre-implementation lifecycles of small-scale bottom-up initiatives. It proposes that Turning Points, which have a relatively small immediate impact, and Critical Junctures, which have larger, more visible and m...
The burgeoning landscape of literature on mobility inequalities has led to discrepancies between a conceptual understanding of mobility inequalities and its implementation in planning practice. Reviewing 270 publications across five decades, this article identifies intrinsic and extrinsic factors and approaches for understanding and analyzing mobil...
Having endured benign neglect from the central government and general disdain from the rest of the country, Groningen has developed into a tenacious and self-reliant town where citizens are increasingly engaged with shaping and transforming their city. This chapter illustrates the eigenlogik of Groningen and its citizens through two recent yet deci...
Participate! Portraits of Cities and Citizens in Action offers an introduction to the complex world of urban development, identity and participation. It explains how the self-understanding of cities is mirrored in their approach to urban development. The basis of the book is formed by portraits of six European cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Lyon,...
This article investigates how planning policies have shaped urban form and mobility behavior in the rapidly urbanized metropolitan area of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We argue that the complex chain of consequences of previous policies and their implementation processes can be understood from the socio-spatial dynamics that result from the interaction...
In Southeast Asia, cities are often plagued by mobility issues. Their socio-spatial structures—defined as the configuration of the street networks and locations of key functions—often lead to mobility inequalities whereby spatial fragmentation affects the individual’s ability to move through the built environment and access key functions to partici...
This book presents a varied and multi-dimensional view of challenges of governance in Southeast Asia and ASEAN through the variety of disciplines and nationalities involved. In light of 50 years of regional collaboration and integration as the member states of ASEAN seek to chart out a future path for the region, this book is dedicated to showcasin...
Energy usage in cities is intertwined with its spatial configuration—the denser and more compact the city, the more concentrated and efficient the energy usage is to be expected. To achieve sustainable communities, cities (and their inhabitants) must reconsider its spatial configurations in the context of rapid urbanisation and growth in light of l...
Every-day mobility anecdotes provide in-depth insights into, and a deeper connection with, the complex reality of how mobility practices are conceived and perceived in a way that more aggregated research approaches overlook in their quest for the summary of travel patterns. Drawing on a study conducted between 2017 and 2019, this article proposes t...
This article argues that a more critical approach to innovation policy within planning is needed and offers recommendations for achieving this. These recommendations entail rethinking the values, focus, speed, and legitimacy of innovations. It takes a critical perspective on how contemporary societies treat rapid innovation as having necessarily po...
To date, little is known about the interplay between transport, land use and the social systems that influence potential and realised accessibility in Southeast Asia. This paper aims to understand these relationships in an informal settlement – a kampong – at the edge of the upscale Menteng district, Jakarta. We applied a mixed-methods approach of...
The role of the citizen in planning processes is rapidly changing. At least, that's how it is assumed. The debate around this issue is not new. In the 60s, there was a call for less technocratic and top-down planning approach. In this article, we discuss how the perspective on citizen participation in planning has develop in time (in The Netherland...
Despite numerous studies suggesting a path-dependent relationship between transport-land use policies and urban structures, particularly on the emergence of car-oriented development, this connection has rarely been explained with spatial evidence. To address this gap, this paper investigated the historical and spatial urban transformation of Greate...
Walking in Jakarta, Indonesia, is often regarded as inconvenient, unsafe, and associated with limited mobility and accessibility. These attributes are the manifestation of Jakarta's socio-spatial structures over time (path dependence) of spatial development events in the past, which considered walking as less important in comparison to vehicular mo...
Social learning is the process of exchanging and developing knowledge (including skills and experiences) through human interaction. This key planning process needs to be better understood , given the increase and variety of non-planners influencing planning processes. This article explores who learns what from whom through social learning in planni...
This article highlights the psychological dimension of social learning. Insights from psychology address the interrelated role of personal and group dynamics in social learning. This can provide a useful starting point for a rewarding use of social learning as an analytical tool in co-creative planning. Such an approach to social learning proves be...
Within the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, Goal 11 promotes sustainable cities and communities. To achieve that aim, this SDG must address the vicious cycle of rapid urbanization and increased motorization intertwined with the social, economic, and political context unique to every city. This chapter argues that...
Met de participatiesamenleving krijgt de burger een hoofdrol in het bepalen van zijn leefomgeving. De democratie wordt bevorderd, de geactiveerde burger mag zijn wensen voor de leefomgeving uiten en de overheid kan kosten besparen. Het klinkt ideaal, maar ook idealistisch. Waar liggen de grenzen en welke aannames zitten hierin? Een onderzoeksconsor...
Within international planning educational circles, the Netherlands has long been held up as an exemplar of effective national and regional land use planning practices. Well-known examples are the water management policies (van der Cammen and de Klerk 2012). The clearly defined administrative hierarchies, the policy consistency, and the management o...
The pursuit of sustainable mobility requires a process of innovations for spatial planning policies. This process is widely sought after in different cities and regions. However, the necessary conditions are not explicitly identified. By comparing the cases of Groningen, the Netherlands and Phoenix, AZ, US; the authors seek key conditions allowing...
In the Jakarta Metropolitan Region (JMR), the lack of coordination and appropriate governance has resulted in paralyzing traffic jams at the metropolitan scale that cannot be resolved by a single government entity. The issue of metropolitan governance is especially crucial here as the JMR lacks an established and formally predesigned system of gove...
Lessons for practice-oriented research approaches in spatial planning
Planning research is increasingly focused on bridging the gap between practice and academia. However, this requires much effort and is not as commonplace as it seems. To ensure success, innovative research approaches, practitioners and academics are required. The experiential lea...
Transit-oriented development strategies (TODS) are widely embraced. However, their implementation remains challenging. Institutional barriers play a key role here, and the literature provides an overview of the most important ones and ways of overcoming them. Yet, application of such insights remains elusive, due to the context-specific nature of b...
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( Dutch ) Transit-oriented development (TOD) of knooppuntontwikkeling is het bundelen van ruimtelijke ontwikkelingen nabij openbaar vervoersknooppunten. Op deze manier vindt er integrale gebiedsontwikkeling plaats waarin verschillende functies (wonen, werken, winkels) en modaliteiten (OV, fiets, auto) samenkomen. De Nederlandse praktijk...
World cities are reaching previously inconceivable sizes and populations, and this escalation of urban quantities and scales has ignited a fascination for the phenomenon of megacities. For the last fifteen years, The Megacities Foundation has encouraged public debate on this development, uniting practitioners from the fields of architecture, econom...
Keywords 24/7 environment, spatial patterns, spatial conditions, urban systems, urban planning, urban vitality Abstract 24/7 environments appear to be urban phenomena created by the fortuitous combination of various socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental trends, namely that of globalization and the increased demand on the time budget...