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Daniel Benjamin Abramson

Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington Box 355740, 410 Gould Hall, Seattle, WA 98195 USAFax: (206) 685-9597Office telephone: (206) 543-2089Home telephone: (206) 523-1172E-mail: [email protected]

CURRENT POSITION

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONAssociate Professor of Urban Design and Planning, since September 2008 (first appointed

Assistant Professor, September 2001) Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and of Landscape Architecture Faculty Member, Urban Design and Historic Preservation Certificate programs Faculty Member, China Studies and Canadian Studies programs, Jackson School of

International Studies Faculty Member, Quaternary Research Center

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAKillam Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, January 1998 – August 2001

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYDoctor of Urban Planning, April 1998.Dissertation title: “Neighborhood Redevelopment as a Cultural Problem: A Western Perspective on Current Plans for the Old City of Beijing.” Advisor: Lü Junhua Readers: Winston Barnett, Vikram Bhatt, Harald Høyem, Michael Leaf, Tunney Lee, Liu Xiaoshi, Qi Kang, Wu Huanjia, Zhao Bingshi, Zhu Zixuan.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYMaster of Architecture/Master of City Planning dual degrees, June 1992.

HARVARD UNIVERSITYBachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude in European History, June 1985.

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND ACTION comparative urbanism and planning cultures, with a special focus on China urban design, historic preservation, and built-environmental expressions of identity democratic and intercultural action and pedagogy in community planning and design community planning and design for resilient social-ecological systems, hazards resilience

and disaster recovery

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Interim Director, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning, September 2010 – March 2011

Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in China, February – August 2010

Associate Chair, Department of Urban Design and Planning, September – December 2009

Interim Chair, Department of Urban Design and Planning, November 2008 – September 2009

SICHUAN UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTPart-time Visiting Professor, October 2012 – September 2017

CHINA PROGRAM FOR INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCHActing Director, September - December 2000; Coordinator, May 1999 - August 2000

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGNDoctoral student team leader, co-leader or member for multiple commissioned neighborhood redevelopment planning projects for the cities of Beijing and Quanzhou, 1992-1997. Organizer/host for RAIC-CIDA Youth Program in Architecture, Beijing, May-June 1995

EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO DOCTORAL STUDYMIT Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements (SIGUS) Program Coordinator for Polish Housing Initiatives, 1990 -1992; City of Boston Public Facilities Department Urban Design/Marketing Intern, Summer 1990; Corcoran Mullins Jennison Inc., Quincy, MA,Management Consultant, Summer 1988, and Assistant Project Director for Columbia Point housing, 1985-1987; researched and catalogued images and documents for Massachusetts Mills historic adaptive reuse development in Lowell, MA, 1988; measured and drafted existing conditions of Hayward Mill in East Douglas, MA, Summer, 1989.

PUBLICATIONS (sole-authored unless otherwise noted)

book under contract

Overseas Chinese Houses in Fujian: the Diasporic Transformation of Home, under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

refereed journal articles

“Ancient and Current Resilience in the Chengdu Plain: Agropolitan Development Re-‘revisited’,” for special issue of Journal of Urban Studies on “Why Does Everyone Think

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Cities Can Save the Planet?” guest-edited by Michelle Miller and Michael Douglass. Accepted for publication February 26, 2019; in copyediting for hardcopy issue in 2019.

“A Long View of Sustainable Development in the Chengdu Plain, China,” Second author with Susan Whiting, Stevan Harrell and Shang Yuan. Journal of Asian Studies. Accepted for publication September 11, 2018; in copyediting for May 2019 issue.

“Planning China’s Communities: Between People and Place,” platform paper for special issue of International Development Planning on Community Planning in China, guest-edited by Nick Smith, Daniel Abramson and Mi Shih. Second author with the guest editors. Forthcoming in 2019, Volume 41, Issue No.3.

“Periurbanization and the Politics of Development-as-City-Building in China: a Case for a Social-Ecological Perspective,” for special section of Cities on “The Politics of Periurbanization,” edited by Ali Modarres, Vol.53, No.4 (April 2016): 156-162. (Invited submission.)

“Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption,” for special issue of Journal of the American Planning Association on “Planning for Disaster Recovery,” guest-edited by Karl Kim and Robert Olshansky, Vol.80, No.4 (Winter 2015): 324-335. Second author with Bob Freitag, Manish Chalana and Maximilian Dixon. (Invited submission.)

“Conservation on the Edge: Periurban Settlement Heritage in China,” for special issue of Change Over Time on Conserving the City, edited by Michele Lamprakos, Vol.4, No.1 (Spring 2014): 114-140. (Invited submission.)

“‘Urban-rural integration’ in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan’s Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Chengdu Metropole,” for special issue of Pacific Affairs on Periurbanism in Asia, edited by John Friedmann, Vol.84, No.3 (September 2011): 495-523. First author with Yu Qi. (Invited submission.)

“Transitional Property Rights and Local Developmental History in China,” for special issue of Urban Studies on Property Rights in Transition, edited by Annette Kim, Vol. 48, No.3 (March 2011): 553-568. (Invited submission.)

“Places for the Gods: Urban Planning as Orthopraxy and Heteropraxy in China,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.29, No.1 (February 2011): 67-88.

“Using GIS in Community Design Charrettes: Lessons from a Japan–U.S. Collaboration in Earthquake Recovery and Mitigation Planning for Kobe,” Habitat International, Vol. 33, No. 4 (October 2009): 310-318. Second author with Takahiro Tanaka and Yoshito Yamazaki.

“Haussmann and Le Corbusier In China: Land Control and the Design of Streets in Urban Redevelopment,” Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 2008): 231-256.

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“The Aesthetics of City-scale Preservation Policy in Beijing,” Planning Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 2 (April 2007): 129–166.

“From Ethnic Enclave to Multi-ethnic Translocal Community: Constructed Identities and Urban Design in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 2006): 341-360. First author with Lynne Manzo and Jeffrey Hou.

“Planning for the Urban Edge in Quanzhou, Fujian: Foreshadowing an Enablement Approach to Village Urbanization,” Projections: the MIT Journal of Planning, Vol. 5 (June 2006): 9-26. First author with Samantha Anderson. (Invited submission.)

“Urban Planning in China: Continuity and Change,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring 2006): 197-215. (Invited submission.)

“The ‘Studio Abroad’ as a Mode of Trans-cultural Engagement in Urban Planning: A Reflection on Nine Years of Sino-Canadian Educational Exchange,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 2005): 89-102.

“Beijing’s Preservation Policy and the Fate of the Siheyuan,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Fall 2001): 7-22.

“ ‘Marketization’ and Institutions in Chinese Inner-city Neighborhood Redevelopment: A Commentary on ‘Beijing’s Old and Dilapidated Housing Renewal’ by Lü Junhua,” Cities Vol. 14, No. 2 (1997): 71-75. (Invited submission.)

“Participatory Planning with a Polish Housing Cooperative: the Context Set by Political Reconstruction,” Open House International, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1995): 35-41.

invited (non-refereed) journal articles and book chapters

“Environmentalism in the Chengdu Plain.” Chapter for Eco-Developmentalism and the State in East Asia, edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna Lewis, and Stevan Harrell. Expected publication by University of Washington Press in 2019.

“The Insurmountable Opportunities of Explosive Growth: Urban Design in China.” Chapter for Urban Design Companion: A Sequel, edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Routledge, June 2019.

“The Uses of Planning History in China,” in The Routledge Handbook of Planning History, edited by Carola Hein (Robert Freestone, Advisor), Routledge, 2017, pp. 260-272.

“Messy Urbanism and Space for Community Engagement in China,” in Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia, edited by Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou, Hong Kong University Press, 2016.

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“Visions of New Urban-Rural Relations and Alternative Definitions of Well-being in Rapidly Urbanizing China: the Case of Chengdu, Sichuan,” in Transforming Distressed Global Communities: Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities, edited by Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni and Andreas Piller, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 317-337. Second author with Jiawen Hu.

“A Trans-Pacific Planning Education in Reverse: Reflections of an American with a Chinese Doctorate in Urban Planning and Design,” in Planning Ideas and Planning Practices: a Critical Look at International Exchange in the Planning Field, edited by Patsy Healey and Robert Upton, Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2010, pp. 289-312.

The Dialectics of Urban Planning in China,” Chapter Four of China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism, edited by Fulong Wu, London and New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. 66-86.

“Global Networks, Civil Society and the Transformation of the Urban Core in Quanzhou, China,” in Southern California and the World, edited by Eric Heikkila and Rafael Pizarro. Boulder, CO: Praeger, 2002, pp. 153-178. Co-author with Michael Leaf.

“Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian,” in The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform, edited by John R. Logan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 167-180. Co-author with Michael Leaf and Tan Ying.

“The Dilapidation and Redevelopment of Beijing's Traditional Neighbourhoods,” in The Horizontal Skyscraper, edited by Bjørn Erring, Harald Høyem, and Synnøve Vinsrygg. Trondheim: Tapir Academic Press, 2002, pp. 47-55.

“Community Development and Urban Planning: A North American View of the Issues in China.” In Zhongguo He Jianada De Shequ Fazhan (Community Development in China and Canada), edited by Chen Qineng and Jiang Peng. Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe (Nationalities Press), 2002, pp. 64-74. (In Chinese).

“Neighborhood Redevelopment as a Cultural Problem: A Western Perspective on Current Plans for the Old City of Beijing,” in Jianzhu Xuebao (Journal of Architecture) 354 (February 1998): 47-49. (In Chinese)

“New Housing in Old Beijing: A Comparative Survey of Projects to Date,” China City Planning Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (September 1994): 42-56.

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reviews and other articles

“The Meaning of Growth: Chinese Urbanization, from the Policy to the Personal,” Journal of Urban History Vol.45 No.2 (March 2018), pp.416-424. Review of “Understanding China's Urbanization: The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation,” by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao (Elgar, 2016); “Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life,” by Jie Li (Columbia University Press, 2015); “Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China,” by Fulong Wu (Routledge, 2015); and “Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New Rich,” by John Osburg (Stanford University Press, 2013).

Review of “The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China,” by You-tien Hsing (Oxford, 2010) for Urban Studies Vol.50, No.12 (September 2013): 2608–2618 .

Review of “Solutions For A Modern City: Arup in Beijing” (Black Dog Publishing, 2008) for Building Research and Information, Vol. 37, No. 3 (May/June 2009): 335-339. Review of “Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005,” by Duanfang Lu (Routledge, 2006), for Built Environment, Vol.34, No.2 (May 2008): 232-234. Review of “House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese,” edited by Ronald Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo, for Pacific Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Spring 2006): 108-109.

“Tales of Two Cities in the Pacific Northwest,” review of “The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design,” by John V. Punter and “Securing the Spectacular City: the Politics of Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown Seattle,” by Timothy A. Gibson, for Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 176-180.

Articles on "Urban Residential Districts" and "Streets" for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, edited by Edward L. Davis, London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

Review of “The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing,” by Anne-Marie Broudehoux, for the Modern Chinese Language and Culture Resource Center, online at http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/abramson.htm (February 2005).

Review of “Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation,” by Y.M.Yeung and David K.Y.Chu (eds.), in International Development Planning Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (November 2002): 450-451.

Review of “The Chinese City in Space and Time: The Development of Urban Form in Suzhou” by Yinong Xu, in Cities, Vol. 18, No. 6 (December 2001): 425-430.

“Challenges of Sustainable Urban Development in China: An Overview of the Situation in Beijing,” Interplan 62 (Summer 1999): 1-4.

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conference proceedings

Editing of Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, Quanzhou, Fujian, June 18-21, 2007, sponsored by the Cities Alliance of Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Longyan Municipalities, and hosted by the Municipal Planning Bureau of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. Hosted on the web at: http://courses.washington.edu/quanzhou/pacrim/proceedings/

sponsored working papers and technical/studio reports

“Attitudes and Trust in Leveraging Integrated Sociotechnical Systems for Community Adaptive Capacity,” prepared for Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET). Third author with Cynthia Chen and Katherine Idziorek, April 2019.

“Localizing Hazard Mitigation: DRAFT Recommendations for Westport’s Comprehensive Plan Update,” a report based on community responses to tsunami and sea level rise scenarios for purposes of integrating the Grays Harbor County Multi-Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan with the City of Westport Comprehensive Plan, prepared for the City of Westport, WA, by the University of Washington Urban Design & Planning Studio “Community Engagement for Coastal Resilience,” URBDP 508B, Autumn 2018; co-editor with Charlotte Dohrn, December 31, 2018.

Project Safe Haven: Tsunami Vertical Evacuation on the Washington Coast: Makah and Quileute Tribes. UW Institute of Hazard Mitigation Planning and Research, and WA Military Department Emergency Management Division. 2012. Co-author with Bob Freitag, M. Olson, T. Lehman, D. Smolker, R. Kasprisin, J. Vitulli, O. El-Anwar, K. Hochstatter.

“Community-based Earthquake Recovery in Taoping, Sichuan, China,” for College of Built Environments 2009 BE Lab; co-editor with Yue Gong and co-author with the Masters students of the 2nd-year urban design studio course UDP508A, UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, Fall 2009.

“LEED Neighborhood Development in Seattle: South Lake Union,” for City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development; co-editor with Ming-Chun Lee and co-author with the Masters students of the 2nd-year urban design studio course UDP508A, UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, Autumn Quarter 2007.

“Urban Design Studio Report – Urban Form in South Lake Union,” for City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development; co-editor with Ming-Chun Lee and co-author with the Masters students of the 2nd-year urban design studio course UDP508A, UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, Autumn Quarter 2005.

“Design Guidelines for an Historic Asian Immigrant Neighborhood: The Chinatown Core of Seattle’s Chinatown-Japantown-Little Saigon/International District,” editor and co-author with the Masters students of the 2nd-year urban design studio course UDP508A, UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, Autumn Quarter 2003.

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“Governance and Design: Participatory Planning, Residential Design Guidelines and Historic Preservation in Quanzhou, Fujian, China: A Year 2000 Studio Report,” co-author with Michael Leaf, Samantha Anderson, and the students of UBC Plan 545B, Asian Urban Research Network Working Paper Series #WP27, Vancouver: UBC Centre for Human Settlements, 2001.

“Urban Development and Redevelopment in Quanzhou, China: A Field Studio Report”, co-author with Michael Leaf, and the students of UBC Plan 545B, Asian Urban Research Network Working Paper Series #WP26, Vancouver: UBC Centre for Human Settlements, 2000.

“Summary of the Participatory Planning Exercise, Lublin, Poland,” SIGUS Reports: The Poland Housing Initiatives Preparatory Field Work in Lublin, Poland, Summer 1991; also “New Housing, Housing Rehabilitation and Political Reconstruction,” January Workshop Report, Kazimierz, Poland, January 14-26, 1991; technical reports written with MIT team members under the direction of Dr. Reinhard Goethert, Principal Research Associate.

theses

Neighborhood Redevelopment as a Cultural Problem: A Western Perspective on Current Plans for the Old City of Beijing, Doctoral Dissertation, 1997.

Participation in Post-Socialist Housing, Masters Thesis, MIT, May 1992 -- from experience with participatory planning in a Polish housing cooperative, a study of new professional planning and design roles in a climate of political and economic liberalization.

The Myth of the Barricades, Bachelors Thesis, Harvard University, April, 1985 -- a study of urbanization and popular revolt in 19th-century Paris.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE EDITING

“Community Planning in China.” Special Issue for International Development Planning Review. Second co-guest editor and platform paper co-author with Nick Smith and Mi Shih. Prospectus accepted November 16, 2017.

“Lessons Learned from Post-2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Community Recovery.” Special Issue proposal accepted by Natural Hazards. Third co-guest editor and platform paper co-author with Yu XIAO and Robert Olshansky. Nine papers submitted for peer review.

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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

organization of conferences, workshops and conference panels

Host for visiting faculty from Tohoku University (Profs. Elizabeth Maly and Kanako Iuchi) and Tokyo Metropolitan University (Prof. Taro Ichiko) for Pre-disaster Recovery Planning exchange visit and presentations to University of Washington M9 project group and URBDP 508B studio, Ocosta school public forum and Quinault Indian Nation community planners, Seattle, Westport and Taholah, Washington, September 23-26, 2018.

Host and panelist with Susan Whiting (Assoc. Prof., Political Science) for Prof. Deying Li, History, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, visiting scholar and speaker at China Studies Symposium, Jackson School of International Studies, April 5, 2018.

Lead organizer of the Working Group on “The Chengdu Plain and Dujiangyan Irrigation District, Sichuan, China: A Case of City-Landscape Sustainability in Comparative Perspective,” for the 2017 Association of Pacific Rim Universities Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference, University of Oregon, Portland, September 15-17, 2017. Continued coordination in absentia with Edwin Schmitt for 2018 meeting at University of Hong Kong, September 6-9, 2018.

Co-organizer (with Nick Smith and Mi Shih) of workshop on “Community Planning in China,” Yale-NUS College, Singapore, June 23-24, 2017.

Co-organizer (with Yu XIAO and Robert Olshansky) of workshop panel for papers proposed for a special issue of Natural Hazards on “Lessons Learned from Post-2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Community Recovery,” 11th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, June 16-18, 2017.

Lead organizer (with XIONG Feng, TANG Ya, YAO Shurong, LI Wei and ZHAO Wei) of the Project Design Workshop for Resilient Urban-Rural Development and Preservation of Agricultural Civilization in the Dujiangyan Irrigation District, Sichuan University, Chengdu, April 23, 2017. Teleconferenced with the University of Washington China Studies work group on land issues in China, including Stevan Harrell, Susan Whiting, Ross Doll, Shang Yuan, and Yan Li.

Co-organizer (with Nick Smith and Mi Shih) of “Planning for the People: New Challenges for Planning Research and Practice in China”, pre-organized panel, 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, November 3-6, 2016.

Lead organizer (with J. Hou, V. Prakash, H. Grover, R. Freitag and M. Chalana) and speaker for Resilience and Asian Urbanism, joint international workshop of the College of Built Environments’ Asian Urbanism and Resilience clusters, with guest speakers from Singapore, China, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Netherlands, UW Intellectual House, March 28-30, 2016. Presented on “Anticipating a Tsunami: Settlement Relocation and Adaptation on the Washington Coast.”

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Organizer and Chair of “New Urban-Rural Relations and Resilience in Asian City-Regions: Multidisciplinary and Multi-scalar Perspectives,” pre-organized panel, Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, April 2, 2016.

Co-organizer (with Nick Smith and Mi Shih) and moderator for roundtable on “Understanding Chinese Planning and its Lessons for the World,” with Anne Haila, Fulong Wu, John Friedmann and Bing Zhang, 55th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Houston, October 22–25, 2015.

Co-organizer (with A. Bostrom, F. Gonzalez and R. LeVeque) and speaker for UW M9 (NSF Grant 1331412) “Project Student Workshop: Mapping Hazard Information with Uncertainties,” UW Data Science Studio, September 1-4, 2015.

Co-organizer (with Anne Vernez Moudon and Stevan Harrell) and speaker for “Scale and Resilience in Planning: from the Salish Sea to the Chengdu Plain,” UW Interdisciplinary PhD in Urban Design and Planning 2015 Annual Symposium, Seattle, May 7, 2015.

Co-organizer (with Stevan Harrell) and speaker for UW China Studies Workshop on New Socialist Villages on the Chengdu Plain, March 18-19, 2013.

Organizing Committee Chair for the second “China-US Professional Workshop on Regional Sustainable Development,” Seattle, October 10-13, 2012, sponsored by UW East Asian Studies Center and College of Built Environments, King County, the International Living Future Institute, and multiple private firms and Puget Sound area local governments.

Group Facilitator, American Planning Association Washington and Oregon State Chapters Joint Symposium on “Moving Forward: Game Changing Initiatives,” Portland, OR, 19 October, 2011.

Organizer and presenter, panel on “International Planning” for the University of Washington Master of Urban Planning 50th Anniversary Symposium, Seattle, January 30, 2010.

Organizing Committee Member for the “China-US Professional Workshop on Regional Sustainable Development,” Seattle, May 5-9, 2009, sponsored by UW East Asian Studies Center and College of Built Environments, King County, the Sustainable Development Training Institute, and multiple private firms and Puget Sound area local governments.

Organizer of the 6th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, Quanzhou, Fujian, June 18-21, 2007, sponsored by the Cities Alliance of Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Longyan Municipalities, Fujian Province, China.

Organizer and Moderator, panel on “Participatory Governance and Urban Community Planning,” for the International Conference on Urban Culture / 2nd International Forum on City Planning Beijing / 1st International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Beijing, June 8-11, 2007, sponsored by the Ministries of Construction and Culture, China.

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Co-organizer, panel on “Immigrant Geographies: Places, Networks and Community,” Cities and Migration: 37th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, Washington, April 25–28, 2007.

Initiator and Organizer, The Preservation and Revitalization of Chinatown (-International District) in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA: The 2007 Community Exchange on Historic Association/ Society-owned Building Rehabilitation, January 14 and 27, 2007. Second series of two workshops in Vancouver and Seattle, sponsored by a Canadian Embassy Research Grant and the City of Vancouver.

Initiator and Organizer, The Preservation and Revitalization of Chinatown (-International District) in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle, WA: First Community Exchange, January 30-31, and November 12-13, 2004. First series of two community exchange workshops between Chinatown associations and societies, other community organizations, professional planners, property owners, and scholars from Vancouver, British Columbia, with counterparts from Seattle, Washington. Sponsored by the University of Washington Canadian Studies Center and the City of Vancouver.

Organizer, panel on work from the Summer 2004 Field Studio in Community Planning and Urban Design in China, at the Symposium on Democratization of Urban Planning Decision-making, sponsored by the Urban Planning Society of China and the Ford Foundation, and hosted by the Municipal Planning Bureau of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, August 16-17, 2004. Also presented at the 5th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, University of Washington, Seattle, September 4-8, 2004.

Organizer and Moderator, panel on “Citizen Participation in Community Development: Mobilization or Shareholding?”, World Congress of Schools of Planning, Shanghai, July 2001.

Initiator and organizer, Community Engagement in Urban Planning: Vancouver’s Experience, University of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver, Canada, June 2001.

Coordinator, MIT Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements (SIGUS) Workshops, series of 5 workshops and study tours in Boston, Massachusetts; London, Oxford and Liverpool, UK; Warsaw and Lublin, Poland, September 1990 - March 1992.

refereed conference presentations

Second author (in absentia) with Katherine Idziorek (presenter) and Cynthia Chen, “Enhancing Community Health with Resilient Socio-Technical Networks,” for Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Buffalo, New York, October 28, 2018.

“Some Uses of Planning History in China: for Preservation; for Resilience,” 17th International Planning History Conference, Delft, Netherlands, July 18-20, 2016. Also presented in revised form as “Popular Planning: Some Uses of Planning History in China and Beyond,” at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, November 3-6, 2016.

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“A Long View of Sustainable Development in the Chengdu Plain, China,” co-author with Susan Whiting (presenter) and Stevan Harrell, for Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, April 2, 2016.

“Planning Between the Long Now and Tomorrow's Yesterday: MultiScale SocialEcological Research and Action in Times and Places of Rapid Development,” at pre-organized panel on “Beyond Boilerplate Participatory Planning: Notes from the Field,” 55th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Houston, October 22–25, 2015.

“Planning the ‘Socialist New Countryside’: Implications of Compact Settlement Form for Socio-Ecological Resilience in Ancient, Densely Populated Agrarian Landscapes,” Second author and co-presenter with Jennifer Tippins, (other co-authors: Jenna Pang and Stevan Harrell) at 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, October 30–November 2, 2014. Also presented in varied form as “China’s New Urbanization: Smart Growth and Planning with Social-Ecological Systems Knowledge,” at the 9th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Chongqing University, Chongqing, June 19-21, 2015; and as “Indicators of Resilience in the Chengdu Plain: Assessing the Presence of Social-Ecological Wisdom in the Development of Agrarian Landscapes” at the 1st International Symposium on Ecological Wisdom for Urban Sustainability: Doing Real and Permanent Good in Landscape and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing, October 17, 2014.

“An Adaptive Approach to Rural Resilience: Lessons from Earthquake Recovery and Tsunami Preparedness Planning with Indigenous Communities” at 53rd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, November 1-4, 2012. Co-author with Robert Freitag. Also presented in varied form, in Chinese at the High-Level Earthquake Disaster Zone Secondary Seismic Disaster Warning and Prevention Technology Seminar, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, October 24, 2014; as “More than Mitigation: Asset-Based Adaptive Planning for a Tsunami with the Makah Tribe of Washington State, USA,” at the 9th Pacific Rim Community Design Network Meeting, Rinari Workshop on “Placemaking in Displacement: Recovery of Indigenous Culture”, Rinari, Pingtung County, and College of Design, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan, March 14-18, 2014; and as “Adaptive Planning for Indigenous Community Resilience: Comparative Lessons from Earthquake Recovery and Tsunami Mitigation in Sichuan, China, and Washington State, USA,” at the 7th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, July 1, 2013.

“Urban-Rural Integration in China: The New Significance of Village Landscape Heritage and Cultural Landscape Preservation” at "Coordinated Urban and Rural Development and Planning," the 5th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Renmin University, Beijing, June 17-19, 2011. “‘Urban-Rural Integration’ in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan’s Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Metropole (A Report from the Field on Recovery Planning in Historic Qiang Minority Ethnic Villages),” presented at the 9th Urban Planning and Environment Conference, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, August 3-6, 2010.

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“Recovering from the Recovery: A Community-level View of Post-Earthquake Planning in the Historic Qiang Minority Ethnic Villages of Sichuan (A Report from the Field), ” co-presented with Qi Yu (Sichuan University) at "Better City, Better Life," The 4th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Tongji University, Shanghai, June 19-21, 2010.

“Property, Participation, and the Public Interest in the Planning of China’s Urbanization,” for a pre-organized session on “Institutional Innovations in Property Rights Towards Equity” at the 50th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Crystal City, VA, October 4, 2009.

“Ethics in International Planning Educational Exchange: Addressing Asymmetries with Field Studios in China,” for the 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, October 18-21, 2007.

“Places for the Gods: Urban Planning as Orthopraxy and Heteropraxy in China,” for The Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices, conference at Hong Kong Baptist University, May 3-5, 2007.

“Chinatown: Engaging Immigrant Communities in the Preservation of Historic Places,” for Cities and Migration: 37th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, Washington, April 25–28, 2007.

“Transcultural Engagement in Community Design in China,” for Imag(in)ing Worlds to Come, the Northeast Regional Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Ecole d’Architecture, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, October 6-8, 2006.

“Community, Property, and the Democratization of the Urban Planning Profession in China,” for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, April 6-9, 2006.

“Haussmann and Le Corbusier in China: The Relation of Expropriation to Spatial Modes of Urban Redevelopment,” for the 46th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, October 27-30, 2005.

“Constructed Identities and Community Planning in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District,” paper presented with Lynne Manzo, Environmental Design Research Association 36, Vancouver, BC, April 30, 2005.

“Multidisciplinary Field Studios as a Form of Cross-cultural Educational Collaboration,” presentation at intensive session on “Experiencing Culture – Experiencing Diversity: Cases of Experiential Learning in Environmental Design Education,” Environmental Design Research Association 36, Vancouver, BC, April 27, 2005.

“Haussmann and Le Corbusier in China: Contrasting Modes of Urban Land Control as Seen in the Redeveloped Streets of Beijing and Quanzhou,” for the Great Asian Streets Symposium, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, December 7, 2004.

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Roundtable member, Global Planning Pedagogy: Innovative Classroom Approaches, 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, October 21-24, 2004.

“At the Origins of Diaspora: Struggles over Urban Architectural Identity and Preservation Policy in a ‘Famous Hometown of Overseas Chinese,’” presented at the Eighth International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments Conference [Un] bounding Tradition: The Tensions of Borders and Regions, Hong Kong, December 13-15, 2002.

“Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Protocols, and Fear of Erasure: Planning for a Multi-ethnic Community in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District,” co-author with Lynne Manzo and Jeffrey Hou, presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, November 21-24, 2002.

“Improvised and Institutionalized Forms of Citizen Involvement in the Urban Environmental Management of Quanzhou, Fujian, China,” presented at the World Congress of Schools of Planning, Shanghai, July 2001.

“Participatory Planning in "Transitional" Societies: Some Generalizations from Experience in Poland and China,” presented at the 42th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference, Atlanta, November 2-5, 2000.

“The Streets are Full of Sages: Civic Participation and the Shaping of Public Space in a Southern Chinese City,” presented at Civic Enterprise: Scholarship and Practice for the Next Century in the Pacific Rim, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities’ International Doctoral Students Conference, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 3-5, 2000.

“Urban Identity in the ‘Ancient Megacity’ of Beijing,” presented at Megacities 2000, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, February 8-10, 2000.

invited conference presentations

Roundtable member, “Conducting Fieldwork in China: Negotiating Power and Positionality,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 7, 2019.

Presenter with Shuang Wu, “Rural Resilience in the Chengdu Plain: a Multi-scale Perspective,” for session on Agrarian Change in Contemporary China: Observations and Implications, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 5, 2019. Also presented in absentia at “Resilience, Response, and Reclamation in the Ecology and Environment of Greater China,” symposium, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, April 6, 2019.

“Human Settlements and Rural Planning in the Chengdu Plain,” for Past, Present and Future: Research on the Evolution of Rural Human Settlements in the Dujiangyan Irrigation District, workshop at Sichuan University School of History and Culture, Chengdu, June 29-30, 2018.

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“Skinner and the Pursuit of Place-based Urbanization: a Planner’s Perspective,” China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward, conference at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), June 20-23, 2018.

“Understanding Community Behaviors and Attitudes for Resilience: Developing a Scalable Survey Methodology,” with Cynthia Chen and Katherine Idziorek, US DoT Tier 1 University Transportation Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET) Annual Meeting and Research Workshop, Arizona State University, May 9-10, 2018.

“Planning with I/indigeneity in Mind: Long Histories, Small Places, and Shared Futures,” lightning talk for Urban Growth Challenges and Social Justice: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future, Annual Symposium of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, May 4, 2018.

“Building Community Adaptive Capacity through Spatial Hubs and Transpatial Networks – Schools and Telehealth as a Nexus of Resilience,” position statement for National Science FoundationSponsored Workshop on CommunityUniversityIndustry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research, organized by Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Washington, DC, November 30 – December 1, 2017.

Keynote speaker (substitute for Nanqi REN) on “Human-centered Urban Planning and Design,”11th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, June 16-18, 2017.

“Ancient and Current Resilience: Adaptive Planning and Governance in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China,” for workshop on Resilient Cities for Human Flourishing: Governing the Asia-Pacific Urban Transition in the Anthropocene, National University of Singapore Asian Research Institute, Singapore, March 1, 2017.

“Community and Built-Environmental Adaptation to Urban Expansion in the Chengdu Plain and Dujiangyan Irrigation District, Sichuan,” for Environment and Environmentalism in East Asia, University of Alberta Taiwan Studies program, Banff Centre, June 3-7, 2016.

“Rural Settlement Heritage and Cultural Landscape Conservation A Crucial Task for Socio-ecologically Resilient Urbanization in China,” for Conserving the Future: Historic Preservation in Contemporary China, symposium organized by Randall Mason and Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, January 28-29, 2016.

“The Role of Communities in Planning Resilient City-Regions,” for International Symposium on Suwon’s Strategies for Leading the Future, Suwon Research Institute, Suwon, Korea, December 16, 2015.

“Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Ethnic Qiang Settlements of the Upper Min River Watershed, Sichuan,” for PRC Environmental Tradeoffs: Modern China’s Environment,

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Science(s) and Landscapes, China Environmental Science and Sustainability (CESS) Workshop/Conference, University of British Columbia and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, BC, September 21, 2015.

“Social-ecological systems in development in the Chengdu Plain,” Report from the Field, at the University of Oregon-University of Washington-University of British Columbia Northwest China Forum, University of Oregon Portland Center, Portland, OR, April 24-25, 2015.

“Fault Lines: Periurbanization and Interstitial Political Space in China,” at the Workshop on the Politics of Periurbanization in Asia: Comparative Perspectives, Liu Centre for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 7-9, 2013. Also presented in modified form as “Fault Lines: Periurbanization and Interstitial Political Space in China – Considering Local Social-Ecological Systems in a Rapidly Urbanizing World,” at the workshop on Urban/Ideology and Contemporary China: Toward an Agenda for Studying China’s Urban Condition, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, January 16-17, 2014.

"Indigenous Community-based Earthquake Recovery Planning in the Lower and Upper Min River Basins, Sichuan, China," for International Conference on River Basin Planning and Management 2013, National Cheng Kung University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 27-28, 2013. “Community, Culture and Resilience,” lead presentation for panel at the Urban Land Institute-Asia Society inaugural Forum of the Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, February 20, 2013.

“Design Charrette Pedagogy as an Element of International, Trans‐cultural Planning Collaborative Education” and “A Trans-Pacific Planning Education in Reverse: Reflections of an American with a Chinese Doctorate in Urban Planning and Design,” at i Cities 2012 Planning Education Forum, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, August 20, 2012.

“Saving the City: Landscape Heritage as a Frontier of Urban Conservation in China,” for Conserving the City Symposium: Critical History and Urban Conservation, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 28, 2012.

“Planning for Sustainable Development – from the Community to the Region,” presented at the Green and Low Carbon Building Technology Forum Between Chongqing City and The City of Seattle, Hilton Hotel Chongqing, China, March 22, 2012.

“Historical Legacies of Urban Settlement and the Recent Transformation of the Old City,” presented at the symposium City Portraits: Beijing, School of Doctorate Studies of the University Iuav of Venice in collaboration with the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Venice, December 15, 2010.

Urban Planning in China: Thoughts on ‘Urban-Rural Integration’,” presented at China Studies Colloquium – States of the Field, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, December 2, 2010.

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“Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urbanizing Regions: Lessons for More Sustainable Earthquake Recovery in Sichuan,” presented at the Columbia University Symposium Urban China 2030: Heritage, Identity, and Sustainable Development, Studio X, Beijing, November 1-2, 2010.

“Community design and regional culture in post-earthquake reconstruction in Sichuan, China,” presented at the 7th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, Awaji Landscape Planning and Horticulture Academy, Awajishima, Japan, September 11-14, 2010.

“Recovering from the Recovery: Lessons and Questions for Resilient Development in Minority-Ethnic Settlements after Two Years of Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Sichuan (A Report from the Field),” presented at the 6th Association of Pacific Rim Universities Research Symposium on Multi-Hazards around the Pacific Rim, Peking University, Beijing, August 27-29, 2010.

“Community-based Agri-tourism: The Integration of Sustainable Development and Heritage Preservation in Rural Areas,” for Protecting our Cultural Heritage and Urban-Rural Sustainable Development, an International Forum, Shanxi Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, January 6-7, 2010.

“Chinatown: The Role of Global Networks in the Preservation of Historic Diasporic Communities,” for the panel “Renewed Vision for Chinatown: Respecting the Past, Planning for the Future,” at the conference Chinatown and Beyond, Simon Fraser University, Harbour CentreVancouver, BC, May 14, 2009.

“Space for Community Empowerment in China’s Urban Development,” for the workshop/symposium A Critical Appraisal of China’s Urban Development Practices, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, February 6-7, 2009.

“Property Rights and Community Participation in the Urban Planning of a 'Famous Qiaoxiang: An Indirect Relationship,” for the International Symposium for Urban Planning, Quemoy (Kinmen), December 12-13, 2008.

“A Trans-Pacific Planning Education in Reverse: Reflections of an American with a Chinese Doctorate in Urban Planning and Design,” for the Fourth Joint Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and Association of European Schools of Planning, Chicago, July 6-11, 2008.

“Rating the Sustainability of Urban Development: a Comparison of the American LEED for Neighborhood Development and the Japanese CASBEE Machizukuri Pilot Programs, and their Applicability to China,” for the 3rd International Conference on China’s Urban Development and Planning and the 2nd International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Langfang, Hebei, China, 19th-20th June 2008. Co-author with Takahiro Tanaka, Kobe University.

“Property, Participation, and the Public Interest in the Planning of China’s Urbanization,” presented at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Research Symposium on

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Property Rights in Transition: Variations in the Equitable Distribution of Land during Economic Reform, May 24, 2008.

“Not Foreign Not Local, in China: Changing Definitions of Heritage in the Urbanizing Hometowns of the Hokkien Diaspora,” for an organized panel at the Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, April 15-19, 2008.

“Toward a Comparative Method of Evaluating Sustainable Urban Form: Lessons from Beijing,” for the cSUR International Workshop on Megacities, University of Tokyo, March 7-8, 2008.

“The Kobe Charrette in International Perspective: the Nexus of Community, Property, Disaster, and Design,” at the Kobe University North America Week symposium, November 13, 2007.

“Community Development, Property Rights, and Participatory Planning in China,” bilingual English-Chinese presentation at both the Workshop on Promoting Scientific Planning and Healthy Development of Cities and Towns, Beijing, August 9-10, 2007, sponsored by the China Center for Town Reform and Development and the Ford Foundation, and the International Conference on Urban Culture / 2nd International Forum on City Planning Beijing / 1st International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Beijing, June 8-11, 2007, sponsored by the Ministries of Construction and Culture, China.

“Migration and Heritage: A Trans-Pacific Perspective on the Preservation of Place,” Plenary Panel Talk for the Cities and Migration: 37th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, Washington, April 25–28, 2007.

“Nagata Charrette Workshop Comments,” for Integrating Safety and Symbiosis into Urban Design, Kobe University – University of Washington International Symposium #3 on Design Strategy towards Safety and Symbiosis of Urban Space, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, July 13, 2006.

Update on trans-Pacific studio collaborations, from Quanzhou, Fujian, China, to Kobe, Japan, for “Cross-cultural Collaboration and Inclusive Planning,” World Urban Forum III networking event, Vancouver, B.C., June 21, 2006.

“Of Gods and Governance: Standardization and Identity in the Planning of Chinese Cities,” paper presented at a roundtable discussion on Chinese Urbanism and Identities in Time, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, April 22, 2005.

“Planning for Community and Planning with Community in China: Lessons from Quanzhou; Thoughts on Beijing,” presented at Planning for Continuity and Change in Urban China, Harvard Graduate School of Design, April 24, 2004.

“Progressive Urban Planning Values as Seen in the Cities of North America’s Pacific Northwest Coast,” presented at the Tian-Yi Forum organized by the Municipal Government of Ningbo and the Ningbo Association of Science and Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, April 8, 2004.

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“The Development of a Minnan Globalized Vernacular: Overseas Chinese Influences in the Architecture of Quanzhou, Fujian,” presented at the Asia-Pacific Arts Forum 2003 – Silk Road of The Sea, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 17-26 October 2003.

“Space and Face: View Points in the Definition and Management of Visual Character in Chinese Cities after Mao,” presented at Visual Culture in Modern China, a workshop sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the East Asian Studies Center, and the China Program at the University of Washington, May 28-30, 2003.

“Sustainable Urban Design in Seattle and at the University of Washington,” presented at the Urban Design and Sustainability Symposium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., March 28, 2003.

“Participation in the PRC: Trans-Pacific Collaboration and Community Engagement in the Planning of Quanzhou, Fujian Province,” presented at the 4th Pacific Rim Participatory Community Design Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, December 17-21, 2002.

“Counting People and Accounting for People: City Management Researchers View Urban-Rural Distinctions and Census-taking in Quanzhou, Fujian,” presented at The Workshop on the Chinese Census 2000, University of Washington Department of Geography, August 22-23, 2002.

“Community Development and Urban Planning: a North American View of the Issues in China,” presented in absentia at the China - Canada Colloquium on Community Development, Qingdao City Government, Song Qingling Foundation, and the Center for Canadian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Qingdao, China, June 26 - 29, 2000.

“Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian,” presented with Michael Leaf and Tan Ying at The Future of Chinese Cities: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century, Conference of the International Sociological Association and the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, Shanghai, China, July 28-31 1999.

“Chinese Urban Redevelopment and Neighborhood Change: the Contrasting Cases of Beijing and Quanzhou,” UBC Centre for Chinese Research, Seminar Series talk, October 20, 1998.

“Beijing’s Old and Dilapidated Housing Renewal Program,” Conference on Renewal and Development of Housing Areas in Traditional Chinese and European Cities, Xi’an, China, July 1995.

“Participatory Planning with a Polish Housing Cooperative,” International Conference on Urban Housing Development, Suzhou, China, November 1993.

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other conference and workshop participation

Group member for Planning and Risk Assessment, Project Definition Workshop on M9 Disaster Science, University of Washington, March 13-14, 2019. Supported by Global Innovation Fund.

Participant via teleconference, “Cascadia Earthquake Hazards Meeting,” USGS Powell Center workshop, Fort Collins, CO, March 25-29, 2019.

Presenter, “Using Probabilistic Cascadia Scenarios in Community-Engaged Resilience Planning” M9 Project Final Stakeholders Workshop, University of Washington, March 12, 2019.

Presenter, “Planning for Resilience: Evolution of a Method for Engaging Communities’ Adaptive Capacity,” King County Community Outreach Workgroup workshop on “Community Engaged Resilience Planning: Theory Meets Practice,” King County Regional Communication and Emergency Coordination Center, Renton, WA, November 15, 2018.

Attendee, “Building Community Adaptive Capacity through Spatial Hubs and Transpatial Networks – Schools and Telehealth as a Nexus of Resilience,” position statement for National Science FoundationSponsored Workshop on CommunityUniversityIndustry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research, organized by Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Washington, DC, November 30 – December 1, 2017.

Discussant for session papers, “Diverse Paths of Urbanization under the ‘New Normal’,” and International Advisory Board meeting, 2016 Urban China Research Network Conference, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, June 28-30, 2016.

Attendee, “Washington Coastal Connection Series: Understanding & Improving Community Resiliency on Washington's Coast,” hosted by U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer of WA 6th Congressional District, Ocosta School, Westport, WA, 11 December, 2015.

Discussant for workshop on “Grassroots Implementation of Planning and Policy: Residents’ Involvement and Indifference in Chinese Cities,” organized by Stephan Feuchtwang for UrbaChina, European Union project on Sustainable Urbanisation in China: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050, London School of Economics, September 25-26, 2014.

Participant in workshop on “Synthesis to Link Understanding, Planning, and Management of Urban Ecosystems in China,” project led by Wei-Ning Xiang and Joan Nassauer, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, Annapolis, June 16-17, 2014.

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Panel Member for “Centrality of Urban: Challenges and Opportunities,” Interdisciplinary PhD in Urban Design and Planning 2014 Annual Symposium: “Centrality of Urban in the Anthropocene,” University of Washington, Seattle, May 6, 2014.

Panelist for China-US Sustainability Panel at the China Entrepreneur Forum, hosted by the University of Washington student Chinese Entrepreneur Network, University of Washington, Seattle, 5 April 2014.

Panel participant on “Sustainability from International Perspectives” for National Cheng Kung University iCities International Forum on Innovative Planning: Teaching Sustainability in Planning Education, Tainan, Taiwan, May 27-28, 2013.

Panelist for workshop on Sustainable Development in China and U.S. with Wen Tiejun, hosted by UW student Chinese Entrepreneur Network, April 22, 2013.

Discussion Leader for Risk and Resilience in Coastal Regions: a Climate Change Workshop, Urban Land Institute Northwest, Seattle, April 10, 2013.

Moderator and Discussant, Pre-organized Session on “Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster” at at 53rd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, November 1-4, 2012.

Abstract reviewer and participant, 8th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, August 22-24, 2012.

Panel Member for “Political-Cultural Resilience”, Interdisciplinary PhD in Urban Design and Planning, 2012 Annual Symposium: “Urban Resilience”, University of Washington, Seattle, 25 April 2012.

Moderator, NowUrbanism Sawyer Seminar Public Forum on “Transcultural Urbanism: Immigrants in the City,” with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Michael Rios, and Arijit Sen, University of Washington, Seattle, 11 February, 2011.

Invited discussant for the Wenchuan Dizhen Zaihou Yuanzhi Chongjian Moshi Yantaohui [Symposium on the Wenchuan Earthquake Post-disaster Reconstruction-in-place Model], hosted by the Wenchuan County Government and Guangzhou Matched-in-Reconstruction-Aid Front Line Workgroup for Weizhou, Weizhou Town, Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, July 17-18, 2010.

Invited participant in “From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism,” International Conference at the University of Hong KongCouncil Chamber, Meng Wah Complex, June 9-10, 2010. Co-organized and sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong-America Center. Followed by post-conference workshop at the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, and the Guangdong Qiaoxiang Culture Research Center, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, China, June 11-13, 2010.

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Invited participant in Fulbright China Research Forum 2010, Hong Kong America Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), University of Macau (UM) and Instituto Cultural de Macau (ICM), March 8-12, 2010.

Invited participant in manifesto drafting committee member for the symposium Reimagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil, University of Pennsylvania, November 6-8, 2008.

Moderator, panel on urban China for Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, April 15-19, 2008.

Expert Panelist, Jiading New Town Urban Planning and Development Summit, Shanghai, August 17, 2007.

Discussant for Dudley Andrew (Yale University), Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College, University of London), and Akira Mizuta Lippit (USC), at Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Space in East Asia, an International Conference at the University of Washington, April 28, 2006.

Discussant and Moderator, panel on “Regulating and Marketing Difference,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference, Portland, Oregon, October 21-24, 2004.

Discussant for Feng Wang (U.C. Irvine), “Chinese 2000 Census as a Source of Studying Social Change in China: Housing as an Example,” The Workshop on the Chinese Census 2000, University of Washington Department of Geography, August 22-23, 2002.

Discussant, workshop on Community Mobilization and Urban Development, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, March 2001.

Discussant, panel on Architectural Preservation in Asia: Local Citizens as Activists and Stakeholders, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2001.

Group presenter, Taipei Workshop, Sixth Asia & West Pacific Network for Urban Conservation Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1997.

Participant, CIDA/Asian Urban Research Network Seminars and Workshops, Guangzhou, August 1992, and Beijing, November 1992 and April 1995.

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FUNDED RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTION

GEOHAZARDS RESILIENCE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENTPrincipal or Co-Principal Investigator, or Research Collaborator US DoT Tier 1 University Transportation Center TOMNET “Attitudes and trust in promoting

use of collaborative transportation services for community adaptive capacity,” Co-PI with Cynthia Chen (PI). $151,470 (including $50,473 match). Funded August 2018 – July 2019.

Bullitt Foundation, Thought Leadership and Innovation in Applied Urban Sustainability Research, Scholarship and Action grant for “Building Community Adaptive Capacity.” PI with Cynthia Chen and John Scott, Co-PIs. $97,896. Funded April 2018 – December 2019.

Center for Safety Equity in Transportation (CSET) proposal for Year 2 Project Area in Coordination and Context-Sensitive Solutions, “Drone Delivery of Medical Supplies in Rural, Isolated, Tribal, or Indigenous (RITI) Communities in Washington State.” Co-PI with Xuegang Ban (PI), John Scott and Cynthia Chen. $300,000 (including match). July 2018 – September 2019

US DoT Tier 1 University Transportation Center grant No. 69A3551747116 for “Teaching Old Models New Tricks (TOMNET): Improving the Realism and Predictive Ability of In-Practice Travel Demand Forecasting Models through the Incorporation of Attitudinal Variables.” Senior Investigator with Cynthia Chen (PI) for University of Washington consortium member center, with Arizona State University (Lead), Georgia Institute of Technology and University of South Florida. $1,000,000 (UW budget). 2016-2020. Includes grant for “Understanding Community Behaviors and Attitudes for Resilience: Developing a Scalable Survey Methodology.” Co-PI with Cynthia Chen (PI). $220,000. August 1, 2017 – July 31, 2018.

UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Strategic Research Initiatives grant, “Preparing for Infrequent but Severe Earthquakes: A Seismically Resilient Pacific Northwest and Beyond.” Co-PI with M. Eberhard (PI), J. Berman, A. Bostrom, A. Duvall, A. Frankel, D. Kirschen, S. Kramer, R. Leveque, S. Miles, M. Motley, J. Vidale, and J. Wartman. $105,000. 2016-2018. CEE-Funded.

NSF Hazards SEES Award#1331412, “Magnitude 9 Earthquake Scenarios – Probabilistic Modeling, Warnings, Response and Resilience in the Pacific Northwest.” Co-PI with John Vidale (PI), Jeff Berman, Ann Bostrom, and Alison Duvall. $2,937,478. 2013-2017, currently extended through August, 2019.

College of Built Environments interdepartmental research cluster seed funds for Resilience in the Built Environment. Convenor and Co-PI with Marina Alberti, Manish Chalana, Robert Corser, Carrie Dossick, Omar El-Anwar, Robert Freitag, Jeffrey Hou, Robert Mugerauer, Kathrina Simonen, and Benjamin Spencer. $35,000. 2013-2016.

FEMA grant (HSFE10-12-P-00139) for “A comparative approach to understanding community resiliency as balancing and inter-dependant services among differing types of capital.” Co-PI with Bob Freitag (PI) and Manish Chalana. $85,000. April 2013-March 2014.

SOCIAL AND BUILT-ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AND RESEARCH IN ASIAN URBANISMRecipient of multiple fellowships and awards, since 2000 UW China Studies Faculty Research Grant, for “Urbanization and Resilience in the Chengdu

Plain: a Planning-Historical Perspective.” $1,745 for field work and program development in Sichuan, Summer 2016.

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Confucius Institute of Washington support of “Transpacific Perspectives on Resilient Urbanism” workshop (actually held under name of “Resilience and Asian Urbanism”). Co-PI with Stevan Harrell. $5000. 2015-2016.

UW Jackson School of International Studies Area and International Studies grant for “New Urban-Rural Relations in Asia: Trans-Pacific Perspectives on Resilient City-Regions.” PI; Co-PIs Manish Chalana, Jeffrey Hou, Ken Oshima, Vikram Prakash, John D. Scott, Dongsheng Zang. $55,000, 2015-2016.

UW Global Affairs International Program Development and China Initiatives Fund grant for "Land Use and Land Cover Change in Sichuan: International Multidisciplinary Collaborative Research, Teaching and Action in Policy, Planning and Social-Ecological Science." PI; Co-PIs Stevan Harrell, Susan Whiting, and Dongsheng Zang. $21,100, 2015-2016.

UW Jackson School of International Studies East Asia Center Title VI grant for “The Social-Ecological Resilience of Urbanizing Deltas – the Chengdu Plain and the Lower Min River Watershed in Comparative Perspective.” PI. $10,000. 2015-2016.

UW China Studies Faculty Research Grants, for “Urbanization and Resilience in the Chengdu Plain: Hierarchy and Decentralization in Water Management, Land Use and Settlement Form,” $2,146, (AY 2014-2015 and 2015-2016).

UW College of Built Environments interdepartmental research cluster seed fund for Asian Urbanism (Co-PI with Vikram Prakash, Jeffrey Hou, Manish Chalana, Christine Bae, Ken-yu Lin, Ken Oshima, Qing Shen, and Kenneth Yocom). $35,000. 2013-2016.

UW China Studies Faculty Research Grant, for “An Expanded Look at Socialist New Countryside Construction: from minority ethnic mountain settlements in Sichuan to diasporic home villages in coastal Fujian,” $1,800, (AY 2013-2014).

UW China Studies Faculty Research Grant, for “West Sichuan’s Linpan Landscape: A Social-Ecological System and its Implications for the Planning of the Chengdu City-Region,” Co-PI with Stevan Harrell (Anthropology), $5,500, (AY 2012-2013).

U.S. Department of Education Title VI Outreach Grant for “China-US Professional Workshop on Regional Sustainable Development.” $24,000, 2006-2012; with Centers of International Business Education and Research, $11,000 (extended through October 2012).

UW China Studies Faculty Research Grant, for development of book project on “Messy Urbanism,” Co-PI with Jeff Hou, $3,500 (AY 2011-2012).

Fulbright Scholarship for field research and action on “Resilience and Sustainability in the Ethnic Minority Settlements of Sichuan, China: Lessons for Community-based Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction,” February-August, 2010.

UW Built Environments Lab grant for “Resilience in the Built Environment: An Interdisciplinary Field Studio for Earthquake Recovery in Sichuan, China.” $35,750. 2009.

UW East Asian Studies Course Development Grant, with Prof. Jeffrey Hou, Landscape Architecture. $5,000. 2007-2008.

CAUP Johnston/Hastings Publication Support Award for book manuscript, Overseas Chinese Houses in Fujian: The Diasporic Transformation of Home. $5,000. 2008.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA) grant for “Echoes of Diaspora: Huaqiao Influence on Housing Policy and the Development of a Globalized Domestic Architecture in Quanzhou, Fujian,” with Professor Chiang Bo-wei of National Kinmen Institute of Technology, Taiwan, and Mr. Wang Lianmao, Curator, Quanzhou Maritime Museum, P.R.China. $40,000. 2006-2008.

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UW China Studies Faculty Research Grant for collaborative planning research with Quanzhou Municipal Bureau of Urban Planning. $5,000. 2003-2004.

UBC Hampton Fund Grant research with Michael Leaf, “State-Society Interactions in the Management of Chinese Urbanization: A Study of Quanzhou.” Cdn$30,000. 2000-2001.

INTERCULTURAL PLANNING AND PRESERVATION PRACTICE: VANCOUVER’S CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION BUILDINGS AND SEATTLE’S WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM EXPANSIONPrincipal Investigator and Convenor, January 2007-2008Organized four community exchange workshops between Chinatown associations and societies, other community organizations, professional planners, property owners, and academics from Vancouver, British Columbia, with counterparts from Seattle, Washington. Cdn$5,000 funded by the Canadian Embassy.

SEATTLE'S CHINATOWN-INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT: TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES, LOCAL IDENTITIES, AND THE MAKING OF PLACECo-Principal Investigator, Academic Year 2002-2005Collaborated with Profs.Gail Dubrow, Department of Urban Design and Planning, and Jeffrey Hou and Lynne Manzo, Department of Landscape Architecture, on an investigation of relations between place, social identity, and community development, specifically as factors influencing urban design policy and process in Seattle's Chinatown. $33,327 funded by the UW Royalty Research Fund.

PUBLIC SPACES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY INQUIRIES INTO URBAN CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC RIMCo-Principal Investigator, Academic Years 2002-2004Collaborated with Profs. Yomi Braester, Department of Comparative Literature, and Jeffrey Hou, Department of Landscape Architecture, on a lecture series based on our own inquiries into the urban sphere as a realm of contested meanings and symbols, and drawing specifically on a comparative study of planning for cities in Taiwan and China, and for the Chinatowns of Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. as examples of urban design engagement with transnational communities. $3,200 funded by the UW Institute for Transnational Studies; $1,000 funded by a UW Canadian Studies Program Enhancement grant.

COMMUNITY-BASED URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN QUANZHOU, FUJIAN, CHINAConsultant and Grant Writer, November 1999 – December 2004, August 2005Collaborated with Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design in US$134,000 Ford Foundation-funded participatory research and action planning program with the Municipal Urban and Rural Planning Bureau of Quanzhou, Fujian Province – the first urban community development project in China to receive Ford Foundation support. Outcomes include design for urban heritage conservation and infrastructure upgrading, and institutional support for community participation. Integrated in 2004 with a UW Summer Studio in China on Community Planning and Urban Design. Two graduate student participant-assistants supported by a Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship International Mobility Grant of $2,400. Followed up by consultancy for the Quanzhou Municipal Urban and Rural Planning Bureau on Xi Jie (West Street) Historic Area Preservation and Regeneration, Quanzhou, Fujian. $13,000. August 2005.

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NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY INSTRUMENT RELIABILITYPrincipal Investigator, Winter and Spring 2003Collaborated with national team led by the Active Living Policy and Environmental Studies Program at San Diego State University to develop and test the reliability of a visual audit instrument for identifying and measuring features in urban and suburban environments relevant to assessing walkability, for use in a study correlating such environments with the physical activity levels of their residents. $7,700 funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

OTHER ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS Canadian Studies program grant for integrating University of British Columbia and City of

Vancouver exchange in UrbDP 508A “Urban Form in South Lake Union,” $2,000. 2005-2006.

College of Arch. and Urban Planning Dean’s Award for Faculty Development. $2500. 2003.

Government of Canada Faculty Enrichment Grant for Canadian Studies, 2002. Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 1997-1999. Tsinghua University Excellence Award for Foreign Students, 1995-1997.

TEACHING

thesis advising and examining

Doctoral dissertation committee chair/co-chair (includes general examination) Catharina Dwi Astuti Depari, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, current.

Phase I Adviser. Lan Nguyen, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, current. Interest: resilience,

hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Co-chair with Ann Bostrom. Katherine Idziorek, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, current. Interest:

resilience, transportation and community engagement. Co-chair with Cynthia Chen. Shuang Wu, Built Environments, current. Interest: Resilience, cultural landscape

preservation, settlement history. John D. Tovey III, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, current. Interest:

resilience planning, settlement history and traditional ecological knowledge. Co-chair with Marina Alberti.

Chungho Kim, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, graduated Winter 2017. Topic: “Community Resilience of Korean New Village Movement, 1970-1979: Historical Interpretation and Resilience Assessment.” Co-chair with Stevan Harrell.

Yue Gong, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, graduated Winter 2014. Topic: “ Manufacturing Towns in China Governance, Space, and Conveyance of Rural Migrants to the Assembly Line.” Chair.

Kuang-ting Huang, Built Environments, graduated Winter 2012. Topic: “Remaking Chinese Planning as a Profession: Growing Demand and Challenges.” Co-chair with Jeffrey Hou.

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Doctoral dissertation committee member/external examiner (includes general examination) Ihnji Jon, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, general examination passed

Spring 2017. Jiawen Hu, Built Environments, dissertation passed Spring 2014. Topic: “Coming Home

to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China.” Member.

Leslie Shieh, University of British Columbia School of Community and Regional Planning, dissertation, passed Winter 2011. Topic: “Integrating Nanjing: Governance of Urban Villages in Contemporary Urban China.” External Examiner.

Ming-Chun Lee, Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning, passed Autumn 2008. Topic: “Towards a Re-conceptualization of Community-based Computer Learning Programs: Five Case Studies of Community Technology Projects in Seattle.” Member.

Jie Wu, PhD, Geography, passed Autumn 2007. Topic: “Artifact Management and Behavioral Discourse in the Software Development Process for a Large Public Participatory Geographic Information System.” Member.

Shuishan Yu, Art History, dissertation passed 2006. Dissertation title: “To Achieve the Unachievable: Beijing's Chang'an Avenue and Chinese Architectural Modernization During the PRC Era.” Member.

Doctoral dissertation Graduate School Representative (general examination and dissertation)

Yunghua Kuo, Law, dissertation defense, October 25, 2018. Topic: “Land Rights of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples under Natural Disasters.”

William Buckingham, Geography, passed Spring 2014. Topic: “Assembling the Chinese city: production of place and the articulation of new urban spaces in Wuhan, China.”

Guilan Weng, Geography, passed Winter 2014. Topic: “Moving towards Neoliberal(izing) Urban Space? Housing and Residential Segregation in Beijing Metropolitan Area.” GSR.

Mohammad Malakoutian, Civil And Environmental Engineering, passed Autumn 2012. Topic: “Seismic Response Evaluation of the Linked Column Frame System.”

Hong Chen, Geography, dissertation passed Summer 2012. Topic: “Chengzhongcun and Urbanization: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China.”

Yukiko Shigeto, Asian Languages and Literature, passed Spring 2009. Topic: “The Politics of Writing: Tenkô and the Crisis of Representation.”

Doctoral Graduate School Representative for general examination only Sara Breslow, Anthropology, passed Spring 2004. Examination fields: “Development,

Environmentalism and Social Justice Activism.” GSR.

Doctoral Graduate School Representative for dissertation defense only David Merrell, Law, passed Summer 2013. Topic: “How Do Minority Uyghurs Shape

Normative Pluralism in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan? National, Community, and Individual Perspectives.”

Man Wang, Geography, passed Autumn 2011. Topic: “Dynamics of Housing Inequality in Transitional China: A Case Study of Wuhan.”

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Chong Eun Ahn, History, passed Spring 2008. Topic: “From Chaoxian ren to Chaoxian zu: Korean Identity under Japanese Empire and Chinese Nation-State.”

Chingwen Hsu, Anthropology, passed Summer 2005. Topic: “Consuming Taiwan.” GSR. Enru Wang, Geography, passed Spring 2005. Topic: “Retail restructuring in urban China

in the reform era : the case of Beijing.”

Masters thesis advising (committee chair/co-chair) Liying Zhu, MUP, 2018, “Comparative Research on Rural Redevelopment planning in

the Linpan Landscape: Case Study of Sandaoyan Town, Chengdu.” Kyle Cotchett, MUP, 2018, “Pedestrianizing Pike Street: Responses to Re-envisioning

the Right of Way on Pike Street in Capitol Hill.” Hallie O’Brien, MUP, 2018, “Urban Forest Restoration and Park Design New

Connections for Ecological and Community Well-Being.” Diana Settlemyer, MUP, 2018, “Equity in the Design of Seattle’s Built Environment: a

Study of the Design Review Program.” Timothy Lehman, MUP-MLArch, 2017, “Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to

Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA.”

Josh Saitelbach, MUP-MLArch, 2016, “Therapeutic Streetscapes: A New Bell Street Designed to Accommodate those on the Autism Spectrum” (co-chair with Daniel Winterbottom).

Misa Murohashi Cartier, MUP, 2016, “Business Signage Control in Seattle's Chinatown International District, Pursuing Healthy Balance of Preservation and Commercial Vitalization in a Historic Commercial Districts.”

Jialing Liu, MUP, 2016, “Redefining Urban Alleywalls: Urban Design for Active Public Space in Maynard Alley, Chinatown-International District, Seattle.”

Meicheng Pan, MUP, 2016, “Design Guidelines and Development Policies for an Adaptable Historic Urban Street: The Case of West Street in Quanzhou, Fujian, China.”

Colin Poff, MUP, 2016, “Relocation and Resilience: Exploring Co-Benefits in Aberdeen, WA.”

Lei Xiao, MUP, 2015, “Buying Time for the Farmers of Chengdu: Settlement Form, Labor Time Allocation, and their Implications for Resilient Land Use Planning in a Rapidly Urbanizing Region.”

Xingyu Wang, MUP, 2015, “Accessibility and Population Density in the Linpan Landscape: A Study of Urbanization in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China.”

Ching Chan, MUP, 2015, “Historic Alley Reactivation in Seattle’s Chinatown International District.”

Xiao Jiang, MUP, 2015, “A Comparative Study of Design Guidelines for Chinatowns in North America: A Reference for Facade Design Regulation in Seattle’s Chinatown – International District.”

Scott Bonjukian, MUP, 2015, “Let’s Bury I-5: An Urban Design Framework for Freeway Lids in Downtown Seattle.”

Pin-hao Huang, MUP, 2014, “Sustainable Urban Community Development: A case study of flood design in Snoqualmie, WA, USA.”

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Jennifer Tippins, MUP and MAIS-CS, 2013, “Planning for Resilience: A Proposed Landscape Evaluation for Redevelopment Planning in the Linpan Landscape.”

Brian Kalthoff, MUP and MSRE, 2012, “An analysis of historic preservation and affordable housing incentives in Seattle's Chinatown - International District.”

Ting Chen, MUP, 2012, “Cross-cultural communication for international urban design practice : lessons from a field studio in China.”

Gloria Ramirez, MUP, 2012, “Urban design for a local merchant community : the case of 'Uptown' Bellevue, WA.”

Magdalena Celinska, MUP and MArch, 2012, “The Civic Waterfront: Public Participation in Urban Megaproject Design.”

Joel McMillan, MUP, 2012, “Potential Initiatives that Military Leadership can take to Reduce Automobile Dependency for Service-members and Employees at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA.”

Maja Hadlock, MUP, 2009, “Effects of privatization on cooperative housing estates in Poland. Cases of Gdansk, Gdynia and Lublin.”

Jie Yang, MUP, 2009, “Beyond New Heaven and Earth: Historic City-Center Redevelopment in Qingdao, China.”

Maria Taylor, Landscape Architecture, 2009, “Local Landscapes, Local Views: Nature, Ecology, and Urban Design in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.”

Angie Salicetti, MUP, 2009, “Improving Pedestrian Accessibility around the Northgate Mall through Urban Design Interventions.”

Katherine Idziorek, MUP (2008) and MArch (2007), MArch thesis: “Intervention/interpretation on XiJie, a street in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China: scenarios for the reuse of an abandoned property as a community resource center”. Winner of the UW Department of Architecture 2007 Independent Thesis Prize.MUP thesis: “A conservation framework proposal for XiJie, a street in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.”

Lee Roberts, MUP, 2008, “A community compact: the social role of neighborhood temples in Quanzhou, China”.

Jessica Majors, MUP, 2008, “6th Avenue South urban design study: reclaiming urban remnant spaces.”

Vivian Chang, MUP, 2008, “Achieving LEED for neighborhood development in the center of the city: Seattle, South Lake Union as a case study.”

John D. Tovey III, MUP, 2008, “LEED-ing Eustis, Florida: an evaluation and remediation of proposed land development regulations for compatibility with LEED-ND Standards.”

Elizabeth Stenning, MUP, 2008, “An assessment of the Seattle green factor: increasing and improving the quality of urban green infrastructure.”

Janet Hyde-Wright, MUP, 2006, “Kirkland's innovative housing demonstration program: new housing choices within single-family neighborhoods.”

Lora Lillard, MUP, 2004, “Devising indicators for successful TOD: a design research process for West Jordan, Utah.”

Naomi Uchida, MUP, 2004, “The effectiveness of the Neighborhood Matching Fund on community in Seattle.”

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Marketta Jolkonnen, MUP, 2003, “Regional cultural landscape assessment for preservation and land-use: lessons from the Häme County Pilot Project, Finland.”

Masters thesis advising (committee member) Chase Killebrew, MUP, 2018, “Equitable Improvements to Public Space in the Right-of-

Way.” Lee Ann Ryan, MUP, 2018, “Urban Freeway Removal: Building a Case for the Re-

Purposing of I-5 through Downtown Seattle.” Rochelle Starrett, MS, 2018, Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Identification of

Urban Scaling Behavior for Transportation Mode Share.” Xinyi Lu, MUP-MSRE, 2016, “A Feasibility Analysis of Parcel B-4-24 Development

Project in Huaihua City, China.” Ziqin Pu, MUP, graduated 2016, “Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary and Lessons for

Shanghai and Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Urban Agglomeration, China.” Jingchen Liu, MUP, 2016, “Promote Neighborhood Character: A Case Study Of

Pike/Pine Neighborhood.” Gerald Buker, MUP, 2015, “A study of backyard cottage policy in Seattle, Washington:

Existing conditions study, capacity analysis, and survey in conjunction with Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development.”

David Burgesser, MUP, 2015, “Community-Driven Public Space: Strategies for Developing Seattle’s Pavement to Parks Program” (Professional Project).

Hao Liang, MLArch, 2015, “Toward a Resilient Landscape: The Eco-Cultural Redevelopment in Rural Chengdu Plain.”

Patricia Julio, MUP, 2014, “Sacred vernacular, a look into the storefront mosques of Seattle.”

Maximilian Dixon, MUP concurrent with MIPM, 2014, “How An Asset-Based Appreciative Inquiry Risk Assessment Approach Could Improve The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Risk MAP Process.”

Chen Hai, MLArch, 2014, “Building a Community Rooftop Network:Design Prototypes for Taipei.”

Ian Macek, MUP, 2012, “Homestays as Livelihood Strategies in Rural Economies: The case of Johar Valley, Uttarakhand, India.”

Tianwen Zhou, MLA, 2012, “Reinventing the Space In Between: Urban Lilong Community Design in North Sichuan Road District, Shanghai.”

Derrick Hiebert-Flamm, MUP, 2011, “Reducing vulnerability through public participation in hazard mitigation : strategies, practices, and lessons learned from Everett's Hazard Mitigation Plan update process.”

Jeana Wiser, MUP, 2011, “Seattle's historic unreinforced masonry buildings: mapping, developing strategies and policy recommendations to support a Seattle URM program.”

Nicole Sanders, MUP, 2009, “LEED ND as a New Urbanist Metric.” Andrea Flower, MUP, 2006, “Collaborative conservation in Mount Baker

neighborhood.” Christopher Meyer, MUP, 2006, “A site planning and feasibility analysis of the

Hathaway parcel.” Irene Tang, MUP, 2006, “Planning for Diversity: Seattle’s Multicultural Planning

Platform”

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Makie Suzuki, Landscape Architecture, 2006, “Urban Waterfront Design for Coexistence: Connecting people and water on Seattle’s South Lake Union”

Lan-Yin Chen, MUP, 2005, “Towards a regional design strategy application of classical Chinese landscaping and gardening art to the Puget Sound region.”

Laurie Karlinsky, MUP, 2005, “Planning for food secure communities : a preliminary food assessment of Seattle's Chinatown-International District.”

Jayde Roberts, International Studies-China Studies, 2004, “The Great Hall of the People: defining the Socialist Chinese national identity through re-defining the center.”

Kevin Stender, MUP, 2004, “Seattle central waterfront design : guiding the development of a historically aware and pedestrian friendly public realm.”

Scott Vlotho, MArch, 2004, “Strengthening the connective tissue of community : preserving Ballard's industrial heritage.”

Beatrice Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 (External Examiner). “Preserving Beijing’s Old City: the vision and reality of historic conservation planning.”

Jasper Goldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 (External Examiner). “From hutong to hi-rise: explaining the transformation of Old Beijing, 1990-2002.”

Preechaya Therakomen, MArch, 2002, “Mouse.class : the experiments for exploring dynamic behaviors in urban places.”

Nicholas Pergakes, MUP, 2002, “Emerging concepts in transit-oriented design: strategies for creating pedestrian and transit friendly environments.”

Zhu Qian, University of British Columbia, Community and Regional Planning, 2002, “Toward a collaborative approach to urban conservation planning in China: an analysis with reference to Quanzhou.”

Ge Wang, UBC Architecture, 2001. Thesis topic: “Development of Participatory Urban Design Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Historic Neighbourhoods, City of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.”

Alina Maness, UBC Community and Regional Planning, 2001. “The Arbutus Corridor: A Feasibility Study for Open Space Design.”

James Chen, UBC MCRP/LL.B., 2000. “Land management practice in Fuzhou, People's Republic of China.”

regular courses

SITE PLANNING: ISSUES AND TECHNIQUES Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 424/524 (formerly 474), taught every yearMasters- and upper-level undergraduate methods course in Urban Design and Planning.

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DESIGNInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 423/523 (formerly 470), Spring Quarter since 2008Main gateway course to urban design specialization for Masters- and upper-level undergraduates.

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

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Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 508, every other yearSecond-year Masters-level Urban Design Studio. Occasionally integrated with University of Washington-University of British Columbia Urban Design Exchange. See below for topics.

SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSESInstructor, UW Community Environment and Planning 303, Spring Quarter since 2012Core course for Junior majors in CEP, focusing on neighborhood socio-spatial analysis and planning.

special or occasional courses and studio topics

FIELD STUDIOS IN COMMUNITY PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN IN CHINAInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 600B, Summer Quarter 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018. Masters and upper-level undergraduate field studios with counterparts in China. Includes Studio Prep seminar taught Spring Quarters. 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2018 “China Village Studio” planning and survey work in diverse rural environments in Fujian and Sichuan Provinces; 2009 studio taught as part of Built Environments Lab sequence on “Resilience in the Built Environment: An Interdisciplinary Field Studio for Earthquake Recovery in Sichuan, China,” continued in the 2009 Autumn Quarter Urban Design and Planning 508 studio. 2007 studio products presented at: Promoting Scientific Planning and Healthy Development of Cities and Towns, Beijing, August 9-10, 2007; City of Seattle Design Commission, Seattle, September 20, 2007; American Planning Association Joint Washington/ Oregon Chapter Conference, Tacoma, October 3-5, 2007; and the 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, October 18-21, 2007.

URBAN DESIGN STUDIOS ON URBAN DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCEInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 508, every other year 2011-2018.Taught in coordination with series of research projects on geohazards resilience in the built environment: Project Safe Haven, Makah Tribe, Neah Bay, WA, Autumn 2011; FEMA project on an asset-based approach to community resilience, Redmond, WA, Autumn 2013; and M9 Magnitude 9 Earthquake Scenarios, including community workshop using WeTable participatory GIS with deterministic and probabilistic tsunami hazard scenarios in Aberdeen, WA, Winter 2016, and Westport, WA, Autumn 2018.

URBAN PLANNING STUDIOInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 507, Spring 2018.Required first-year studio course for Master of Urban Planning program. Coordinated with the Liveable City Year program to develop an Urban Design Graphics Package for Tacoma, WA.

SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS FOR RURAL SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PLANNINGInstructor, Sichuan University (SCU), April 24–July 12, 2017Co-instructor with Edwin Schmitt, SCU, September 15–October 15, 2014. Field research course for SCU Masters and upper-level undergraduate urban planning students participating in the 2014 and 2017 SCU international University Immersion Programs (including the 2014 UW China Village Studio).

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DISASTERS BY DESIGN: RESILIENCE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENTCo-Instructor with Robert Freitag, UW BE 498A, Autumn 2016Seminar to develop a Built Environments lower-level undergraduate gateway course to studies in environmental climate-change-, hazard- and disaster-conscious planning and design.

METHODS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN PLANNINGInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 598F, every other year 2004-2011Participatory planning methods for masters and doctoral students. Integrated in 2004 with University of Washington-University of British Columbia/Seattle-Vancouver Chinatown(-International District) Community Preservation and Revitalization Exchange.

ASIAN CITIES: HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICECo-Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 498D, Spring Quarter 2006 and 2008Jointly taught with Jeffrey Hou, Landscape Architecture, and Vikram Prakash and Ken Oshima, Architecture. Cross-departmental upper-level undergraduate and Masters-level seminar.

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO: LEED NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH LAKE UNIONInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 508, Autumn Quarter 2007Taught in coordination with the City of Seattle’s Green Building initiative.

INTERPRETING THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 598E, 2002-2004, and 2006Urban socio-spatial survey methods for Masters students in Urban Design and Planning. Integrated in 2004 with UW-University of British Columbia Urban Design Exchange.

KOBE URBAN SPACE DESIGN CHARRETTECo-Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 600, Spring Break 2006Jointly taught with Manish Chalana, Robert Freitag, and faculty of Kobe University. Masters-level one-week charrette in Kobe, Japan, on “Revitalizating Nagata Ward”. Included charrette prep and post-charrette documentation and presentation, Winter and Spring 2006.

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO: URBAN FORM IN SOUTH LAKE UNIONInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 508, Autumn Quarter 2005Taught in coordination with the City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development.

GLOBALIZATION AND PACIFIC RIM CITIESCo-Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 498D, Spring Quarter 2003 and 2005Joint/alternate teaching with Prof. Christine Bae. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level course in urban planning in East and Southeast Asia and Pacific-coast cities of the Americas.

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO: DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR AN HISTORIC ASIAN IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOOD Instructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 508, Autumn Quarter 2003Pro-bono service studio for the Chinatown Core of Seattle’s International District.

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ISSUES IN URBAN DESIGN AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION Instructor, UW Architecture 590, Fall 2002Introductory Masters-level survey course in Urban Design and Historic Preservation.

WRITING THE CITYInstructor, UW Urban Design and Planning 498X, Summer 2002Upper-level undergraduate and Masters-level writing course in urban environmental and cultural observation and interpretation.

University of Washington guest lectures

Overview of Chinese Urbanization, Design and Planning Issues for ARCH 558/ART H 591 Ecological Architecture, Profs. Meredith Clausen, Laure Heland, February 5, 2015; DESIGN 582 Graduate Design Studio, Prof. Christopher Ozubko, January 21, 2015; ART H 290, History of Architecture, Prof. Meredith Clausen, December 3, 2014; URBDP 200 Introduction to Urbanization, Prof. Mark Purcell, June 6, 2013, and June 4, 2014.

Introduction and discussion for screening of Ordos 100 for East Asia Center and China “Revolt and Remember: Landscape Heritage as a Frontier of Urban Conservation in China or a new ecological imperative for community-based, historically-informed environmental adaptation,” for URBDP 585 Introduction to Preservation Planning, Prof. Manish Chalana, November 26, 2013.

Introduction and discussion for screening of Ordos 100 for East Asia Center and China Studies series of documentary films by Ai Weiwei, 31 October 2012.

“International Service Learning for Resilient Communities: Field Studios in Urban Planning and Design,” for the 2012 Community College Master Teacher Institute: Global Education for a Sustainable Future, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies East Asia Center, 13 July 2012.

“Property, Participation, and the Public Interest in the Planning of China’s Urbanization,” for University of Washington Law School Global Mondays lecture series, 30 January 2012.

“Public Participation, Grass Roots, and Social Equity in Planning,” for URBDP 300 Introduction to Urban Planning, Jill Sterrett and Marty Curry, Instructors, May 9, 2011.

“Resilient Community Planning in China: bringing an anthropological and historical sensibility to international practice,” for UDP Professionals Council panel discussion on Resilient Community Planning in the Global Context: bridging the gap between Graduate Research and Professional Practice, University of Washington, February 24, 2009.

“Chinese Urbanism Since 1945,” for ARCH 459 Architecture Since 1945, Prof. Meredith Clausen, May 28, 2009.

“Chinese Landscape Design,” for LARC 352 History of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Thaisa Way, University of Washington, October 10, 2009 and October 14, 2008.

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“The Beijing Olympics and Urban Development,” for UW China Studies panel on Beijing Olympics 2008: Politics and Culture of Sports, University of Washington, June 3, 2008.

“State, Society and Urban Planning in China,” for SISEA/SOC 464 Contemporary Society in the People’s Republic of China: State and Society, Prof. William Lavely, February 20, 2008.

“Transcultural Field Studios: Integrating Research, Pedagogy and Practice,” for UW Built Environment PhD Colloquium, May 4, 2006.

“Urban Design and Community Planning,” for the UW Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning seminar series, Emerging Research Agendas, April 19, 2006.

“Urban Planning in China,” for SISEA 521 Interdisciplinary Seminar on China, Profs. Christine Wong and William Lavely, March 1, 2006.

“Housing and Urbanism in China,” and “Challenges of Peri-urban Planning in China,” for ARCH 588/AH591 Seminar in Twentieth Century Architecture: Modern Chinese Architecture, Meredith Clausen, February 12 and March 11, 2004.

“The Development of a Globalized Vernacular Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities for Community Preservation Planning in a Coastal Chinese City – Quanzhou, Fujian Province,” presented at the UW CAUP Built Environment Colloquium, February 5, 2004.

“Traditional Globalization at an Origin of Diaspora: The Impact of Overseas Chinese Networks on Urban Spatial Policy and Change in Southern Fujian – Quanzhou as a Special Case,” presented at the UW China Studies – Geography Colloquium, November 14, 2003.

“Theory of Globalization and Transnationalism: Implications for Urban Design,” for LARC 362 Landscape Design in Urban Contexts, Prof. Jeff Hou, May 8, 2003.

University of British Columbia courses prior to teaching at University of Washington

JOINT URBAN PLANNING FIELD SURVEY AND STUDIOCo-leader with UBC Planning Prof. Michael Leaf, Summers, 1999 and 2000; Tsinghua University team leader, Beijing and Quanzhou, May 1994Masters-level field course in neighborhood surveys and redevelopment planning in China with faculty and students from Tsinghua, UBC and McGill University.

COURSES ON THIRD WORLD PLANNING Co-instructor or guest lecturer for Profs. A. Laquian and M. Leaf, UBC, 1998-1999Lectured and led discussions in four courses: Shelter and Services in Developing Countries; Urban Planning in Developing Countries; Theory and Practice of Project Planning in the Third World; Infrastructure and Urban Environment in the Third World.Tsinghua University teaching prior to teaching at UW

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERSInstructor, Tsinghua University School of Architecture, Fall 1995 and 1996Introduced English-language planning and architectural vocabulary to Chinese graduate students.

MIT/TSINGHUA JOINT BEIJING URBAN DESIGN STUDIO Tsinghua Lecturer, June 1995; MIT team member, June-July 1992Organized exercises and lectured for teams from MIT and Tsinghua University.

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External lectures and interviews

Interviewed by Dan Hammock, for: “Lessons learned from Japan tsunami may benefit Westport,” The Daily World (Aberdeen, WA), September 22, 2018, p.1; “Experts from Japan talk tsunami preparation and recovery in Westport,” and “Tsunami forum coming to Ocosta School Nov. 17,” in South Beach Bulletin (Grays Harbor Bar to Willapa Bay), September 27, 2018, p.1, and November 15, 2018, p.1.

Interviewed by Pat Anderson for KXRO Radio (Hoquiam, WA) on tsunami hazards and preparedness in Grays Harbor County, WA, with Brian Atwater, UW ESS Prof., and Kiana Ballo, CEP Alumna, November 14, 2018, 9:00am.

“Long-term Social-Ecological Resilience in the Dujiangyan Irrigation District: Implications for Land Policy, Settlement Planning, and Community Governance/Development,” presented in varied forms at Sichuan University, Schools of Public Administration (March 24, 2017) and Economics (March 29, 2017), Southwest Jiaotong University College of Architecture and Design (April 28, 2017), and the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chengdu (July 4, 2018).

Webinar presenter on the M9 project “Magnitude 9 Earthquake Scenarios – Probabilistic Modeling, Warnings, Response and Resilience in the Pacific Northwest,” for the Canadian Hazus Users Group (CanHUG), December 1, 2016.

Interviewed for panel on China’s New Urban Planning Guidelines, China Radio International, February 26, 2016.

“Using Knowledge of Social-Ecological Systems in Rural Planning: A Path to Resilient Urbanization in the Chengdu Plain” (in Chinese), to the Chengdu Municipal Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, July 14, 2015; to the China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute, Chengdu, July 20, 2015; and to the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Beijing, July 26, 2015.

Lecture series on Planning for Sustainable Development of Rural and Urban China – Introduction to American and Chinese Cases, 15 hours, Sichuan University “International Weeks” program, July 5-18, 2013.

Interviewed by Marcie Sillman on density in South Lake Union for Weekday on KUOW radio, Seattle, 13 December, 2012, http://kuow.org/post/coal-port-hearings-seattle

Interviewed by Kelly Chung Dawson for “Changing Chinatowns,” China Daily USA, 23 November, 2012, http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/2012-11/23/content_15953719.htm.

“International Collaborative Community Planning in China – the Perspective of Indigenous Village Development: Cases from Mainland China,” (in Chinese), Pingbei High School Indigenous Students Class, Yanpu Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan, 14 September.

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“Beyond New Village Construction: New Tasks for Planning Urban-Rural Integrated Development,” (in Chinese), WuHe (Werkhart) International company seminar, Beijing, 6 September. Modified version of lecture given in Lanzhou, China, 11 August, 2011.

“International Service-Learning for Community Development: Field Studios in Chinese and Indian Villages,” with Manish Chalana for Portland State University College of Urban and Public Affairs First Fridays series, 4 May 2012.

“Messy Urbanism: Bottom-up Placemaking,” with Jeffrey Hou for The Future of Asia’s Cities: Design, Environment, Health, Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 24 March 2012. Also presented at Portland State University China Innovations in Urbanization series, Portland, 4 May 2012.

Planning for Sustainable Development – from the Community to the Region” (in Chinese) to delegation on sustainable urban development from Taizhou Municipality, Jiangsu, China, for Washington State Department of Commerce, Seattle, 24 April 2012.

“The Cultures and Landscapes of Western Sichuan,” with Stevan Harrell for the Seattle Chinese Garden and Seattle-Chongqing Sister City Association, Chan Education Center, Seattle Chinese Garden, 11 February 2012.

“The Function of Community and Public Participation in Urban Planning,” (in Chinese) for training of Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources staff, Landesa Rural Development Institute, Seattle, 11 October 2012.

“Beyond New Village Construction: New Tasks for Planning Urban-Rural Integrated Development,” (in Chinese) at the Lanzhou University Western Environmental Education Department Key Laboratory and Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, 11 August, 2011.

“International Collaborative Studios for Village Planning in China,” at the Urban Landscape Design Center, Harbin Institute of Technology Graduate School, Shenzhen, 8 August, 2011.

“Urban-Rural Integration in China: Implications for Community Planning and Development/ Village and Regional Planning and Development,” for Tan Sack Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 25 February, 2011.

“Urban Planning in China: Thoughts on ‘Urban-Rural Integration’ at the Community Level,” for Doctoral Seminar in Regional Planning and Public Policy, Prof. Pierluigi Crosta, University Iuav, Venice, December 14, 2010.

“Urban Planning in China,” for U.S. Army I Corps Commanding General’s China Lecture Series, Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, February 16, 2006.

“Traditional Transnationalism and the Emergence of Alternative Planning Cultures in China,” for International Studies in Planning Lecture Series, Department of City and Regional Planning Cornell University, April 15, 2005.

“Asian Immigrant Influences on the Urban Environment of the Pacific Northwest,” for City of Everett Cultural Arts Lecture Series, March 24, 2005.

“The Role of Community and Public Participation in Urban Planning as Seen in the Cities of North America’s Pacific Northwest Coast,” Beijing University, China, December 2, 2004.

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“Community Planning,” for the Department of Architecture, Overseas Chinese University, Quanzhou, China, September 8, 2003.

“New Urbanism,” for staff members of WuHe International, Beijing, August 28, 2003. “The Transformation of Urban Public Space in China: A Diversity of Conditions,” for UW-

Tacoma TURB 310 Urban Society and Culture, Prof. Lisa Hoffman, May 19, 2003.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SERVICE

Department of Urban Design and Planning Member, Studio Working Group, Autumn 2016-present. Faculty lead for Urban Design Certificate program, June 2016-present. Member, Master of Urban Design degree program planning committee, June 2011-

present. Member, Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and

Planning, January 2009-present (Interim Director September 2010-March 2011). Curriculum and Programs Committee, October 2011-2016 (Chair October 2014-

December 2016). Member, Reappointment Committee for Himanshu Grover, Autumn 2016. Member, Search Committee for research faculty in Real Estate, October 2015-May 2016. Chair, Search Committee for tenure-track faculty in Urban Design, January-June 2015. Chair, Search Committee for tenure-track faculty in Real Estate, October 2013-June

2014. Member, search committee for non-tenure-track faculty in Real Estate, October 2011-

2012. Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee, Autumn 2010. Chair, strategic plan working group for global studies, October 2006-present. Departmental representative in exchange with the Center of Excellence at the Graduate

School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, January 2006-June 2008.

Convenor of departmental strategic plan faculty interest groups for Urban Design and Historic Preservation; co-convenor for global planning interest group, April 2006.

Co-leader of annual student orientation tour of Seattle metro area, 2005-2007. Commencement Marshall, 2002, 2012.

College of Built Environments Urban Design & Planning Representative, College Council, 2018-present. Member, working group for new BE Center for Asian Urbanism, 2012-present. Faculty Reviewer, Certificate of Urban Design program student portfolios, 2002-present. Convenor, working group for CBE cluster on Resilience in the Built Environment, 2012-

2016. Member, PhD program in the Built Environment Steering Committee, 2006-2016. Member, Review Committee for Chair of Architecture, 2012. Member, search committee for Director of the Visual Resources Collection, 2009. Member, search committee for Chair, Department of Urban Design and Planning, 2009. Member, search committee for Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, 2009. Member, Sustainable Design Institute Steering Committee, January 2006-June 2007.

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Member, faculty review committee for the 2007 and 2008 Denice Johnson Hunt K-12 Internship application rounds.

Member, search committee for Chair of the Department of Architecture, October-December 2006.

Member, and Chair (2005-2006), Recognition Day Awards Committee, 2003-2006. Organizer, College of Architecture and Urban Planning PRAXIS/China Studies visiting

lectures:o Jeffrey Cody, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, on “The Changdi Charrette

in Guangzhou: Newer Urbanism in an Older Chinese City”, 4 April 2005.o Li Xiaodong, Tsinghua University Department of Architecture, Beijing, on

“Celebration of Superficiality: Chinese Aesthetics since 1979/Space of Quietness: Design Works of Xiaodong Li”, 20 January 2005.

Jackson School of International Studies Member, Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship Committee for East Asian

Studies (2003, 2007, 2013) and Canadian Studies (2002). Co-convenor, China Studies faculty interest group for UW-Beijing University

conferences on interdisciplinary education and research, December 2006-January 2007.

University of Washington Grant Proposal Reviewer, Royalty Research Fund (RRF), May 2018. Member, Office of Global Affairs Advisory Council and UW China Faculty Advisory

Board, 2009-present. Mentor for Sichuan University undergraduate exchange students, UW Worldwide, 2002-

present. Member, Graduate International Research Fellowship Committee, Spring Quarter 2011. Interviewer, Fulbright Scholarship Candidates, 2008, 2010, 2016. Faculty Senator for Urban Design and Planning, September 2008 – December 2009.

OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS

Member, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington College of the Environment, March 2018 – present.

Grant Proposal Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada, 2018. Member, Editorial Advisory Board for China City Planning Review, December 2017-present. Informal advisory/review group member for Washington Sea Grant probabilistic and

localized projections of sea level rise for Island County, WA, 2016. External Deputy Director, Research Center for Historic Towns and Villages, Southwest

Jiaotong University College of Architecture and Design, Chengdu, China, 2015 – 2017. Member, International Advisory Committee, Urban China Research Network, November

2015 – present. Honorary Fellow and Adviser, Zhejiang University Urban-Rural Planning and Design

Institute, Hangzhou, China, April 2015 – present. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Planning Perspectives, October 2014-present.

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Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors, International Association for China Planning, Two Terms, October 2005-October 2009. General member; referee for conference abstracts, 2010 – present.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association, September 2006 – June 2008.

Referee for Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Active Living Policy and Environmental Studies Round II Cycle 1 grant proposals, 2003; and for RWJF Active Living Research Round III Cycle 2 grant proposals, 2004.

Member, Pacific Rim Community Design Network, 2002-present (organized 2007 conference).

Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Educators Interest Group, 2002-present.

Member, Association for Asian Studies, 2000-2002 and 2006-2007. Member, Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., 2005-2006. Translation and editing of interpretative plaques for exhibits at the Overseas Chinese History

Museum (Huaqiao Lishi Bowuguan), Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, July 2006. Member, Community Advisory Board for the Seattle Chinatown-Nihonmachi-Little Saigon-

International District open space planning, 2002-present.

Referee for the following scholarly journals:

CitiesCity, Culture and SocietyDisastersEnvironment and Planning D: Society and SpaceEurasian Geography and EconomicsGlobal Environmental ChangeHabitat InternationalInternational Journal of Mass Emergencies and DisastersInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research Journal of the American Planning AssociationJournal of Architectural EducationJournal of Planning Education and ResearchJournal of Planning LiteratureJournal of Urban AffairsJournal of Urban DesignLand Use PolicyLandscape and Urban PlanningNatural HazardsPacific AffairsPlacesPlanning PerspectivesPlanning Theory and PracticeProgress in PlanningPositions: east Asia cultures critiqueTown Planning Review

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