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Basic Information
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Brief Introduction
She is Professor and Ph.D. supervisor of Urban Planning in Nanjing University. She received a Bachelor of science, a master of science and a doctor's degree from Nanjing University. She was visiting scholar at Columbia University, Michigan State University, Paris Telecom High-Tech, and University of Toulouse. She served as Vice chairman of the cultural geography Committee of the Chinese geographical society since 2014-2023, and has served as Secretary-General and Vice chairman of the territorial spatial planning research Committee of the Chinese natural resource society since 2019. She is the Director of Jiangsu Province Smart City Research Base.
Her research is mainly engaged in urban and regional planning, methodology of urban planning, research and planning of urban social and cultural space. Her research interests cover consumption space, cultural led regeneration, youth cultural practice and space, community and lifestyle, subject well-being, urban nature and biophilia behavior. Her recent interest focuses on residents’ everyday life practice and well-being in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and new frame of territorial spatial planning.
She is the lead instructor for the nationally renowned undergraduate course "Urban Sociology and Social Surveys." She has led 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and more than twenty projects of urban and regional planning. She has published more than 100 journal articles in both Chinese and English. The planning project she presided over won the third prize of national excellent survey and Design Award, the second prize of Jiangsu excellent survey and Design Award, and the second prize of Jiangsu excellent engineering design. Students’ social practice research reports she guided won the first, second and third prizes and excellent work awards in urban and rural planning major of national colleges and universities for more than 30 times.
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Courses
·For Undergraduate: Human and Economic Geography; Urban Sociology and Social Survey（National First-Class Course）；Architecture and Planning Theory II
·For the Master: Urban Cultural Space and Renewal Planning Research; Regional Research and Planning; Research Methods – Literature Reading and Writing Literature Review
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Research and Projects
【National Natural Science Foundation of China】
·Urban Residents' Daily Biophilia Spatial Practices and Well-being（2023-2026）；
·Community, life style and subjective well-being（2019-2022）;
·Production of consumption space in big cities in China（2014-2017）;
·Urban cultural space study in the perspective of new cultural geography（2006-2008）.
【Projects of Urban and rural planning】
·the research on the path and strategy to solve the governance problems of large residential areas in Nanjing ,2021.
·the research on the path and countermeasures for Nanjing to build a new consumption demonstration city and a national consumption center under the new development pattern ,2021.
·the 14th five year plan for national economic and social development of Sheyang County, 2020.
·the Research on land space optimization and spatial governance of Chengdu during the 14th Five Year Plan period, 2019.
·the Overall planning of Liangji Town, Suining County, Xuzhou City, 2017.
·the Study on the urban function improvement strategy of Huai'an central city, 2015.
·the 13th five year plan for national economic and social development of Siyang County, 2015.
·the Regulatory detailed planning of Shuanggou Town, Xuzhou City, 2013.
·the overall urban and rural planning of Zhenjiang City, 2012.
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Publications
·Chen, Peipei, Min Zhang (Corresponding Author), and Ying Wang. "The Chinese new middle class and their production of an ‘authentic’rural landscape in China’s gentrified villages." Geoforum 144 (2023): 103793.
·Hu, Yuchen, Yanjun Liu, Peipei Chen, Min Zhang (Corresponding Author). "The impact of residents' perceptions of urban shrinkage on overall life satisfaction–The case of Yichun, China." Cities 141 (2023): 104445.
·Chen, Peipei, Min Zhang (Corresponding Author), and Ying Wang. "Beyond displacement: The co-existence of newcomers and local residents in the process of rural tourism gentrification in China." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 32.1 (2024): 8-26.
·Wu, Weiping, Min Zhang (Corresponding Author), Yuxin Qing, Yan Li. "Village resettlement and social relations in transition: the case of Suzhou, China." International Development Planning Review 41.3 (2019).
·Zhang, Min, Weiping Wu, and Weijing Zhong. "Agency and social construction of space under top-down planning: Resettled rural residents in China." Urban Studies 55.7 (2018): 1541-1560.
·Zhang, Min, Weiping Wu, Weijing Zhong, et al. "The reshaping of social relations: Resettled rural residents in Zhenjiang, China." Cities 60 (2017): 495-503..
•Zhang, Min. "Book review: China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing." Urban Studies(2015): 1939-1940.
·Zhang, Min, Weiping Wu, Ye Bai. "Transnational practices in urban China: Spatiality and localization of western fast food chains." Habitat International 43 (2014): 22-31.
