Yang Ye

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Harbin Institute of Technology

In the context of urban public spaces, which tend to be shrunk and humanistic, micro urban spaces (MUSs) might offer residents additional opportunities for public activities to occur because of their small scale, discrete distribution, and frequent interaction. Cold cities have severe climatic restrictions; thus, as the seasons change, MUSs in cold...

The rapidly changing global conditions of the environment and climate have resulted in higher requirements for urban design. Significant annual temperature variations and large day/night temperature differences in cold-region cities leads to high energy consumption. Therefore, it is challenging to achieve low energy consumption in cold-region citie...

Livable quality promotion is an indispensable guideline of inventory renewal, and the old city's living street quality is the main focus of attention in this context. Based on the physical disorder theory, this paper takes the Anzipian area of Harbin as the research object, conducts virtual audits through street view images, and quantifies the degr...

Livable quality promotion is an indispensable guideline of inventory renewal, and the old city’s living street quality is the main focus of attention in this context. Based on the physical disorder theory, this paper takes the Anzipian area of Harbin as the research object, conducts virtual audits through street view images, and quantifies the degr...

Residential area is the main area for the elderly to carry out daily activities. The walkability of residential areas directly affects the quality of life of the elderly residents. It is also a symbol of the degree of walkability and the pace of green city construction. To test the influence of urban built environment on walkability in residential...

Walking is one of the main travel mode for old citizen (over 60 years old) in their daily life, so understanding how the environment characteristics of residential area could effect the old citizen’s physical activities could help the designer to work better on old citizen friendly urban plan. This study attempts to comprehensively and objectively...

To test the influence of urban built environment on walkability in mainland Chinese cities, this study developed a questionnaire to perceive the residents' perception of walkability around their neighborhood, which was based on the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale-Abbreviated (NEWS-A), and modified to reflect the characteristics of mainla...

This study attempts to comprehensively and objectively understand whether the physical characteristic of urban space affect the walkability of Harbin city center. Besides, due to Harbin is located in the cold region, the temperature change a lot between winter and summer, this study also tried to find out whether the physical environment characteri...