ChengHe Guan

ChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai and founding director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science. Dr. Guan is also a Global Network Assistant Professor and PhD advisor at NYU Wagner, and a visiting Associate Professor at East China Normal University.  He serves as a research consultant at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford. He is also an Associated Senior Researcher at Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. 

The intellectual agenda of Dr. Guan’s research ties into the current urban challenges and opportunities and leads to a cluster of research themes on Computational Urban Science in Planning (CUSP). His research is organized in three interconnected themes to address the particular needs for CUSP research of the society at large. The first theme is planning for sustainable post-pandemic cities in the framework of digital urban transformation. The second theme is planning for the growth of climate responsive low-carbon cities in the context of GHG mitigation. The third theme is planning for environmentally sensitive urban green infrastructure using social sensing techniques.

Dr. Guan has published over 50 academic papers, more than 40 are in internationally renowned journals indexed in SCI/SSCI including Nature Communications, Cities, Environmental and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Urban Forestry & Greening. He teaches multiple courses in the field of CUSP such as Urbanization in China, Planning Global Cities, Spatial Dynamics of Urbanization, and Computational Urban Science.

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• Chen, Z., Liu, Y., Yan, P., Guan, C.* (2024) Two-stage deployment and operation plan of PCR sample collection booths under demand uncertainty. Sustainable Cities and Society 105315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105315

• Cai, Z., Cheng, T., Li, Y., Guan, C.*, Tang, J. (2024) Spatial analysis of hospital accessibility in Nanjing: The role of community health service centers. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Accepted.

• Deng, D., Hu, Q. Guan, C.*, Chen, Y., Menendez, M. (2024) From access to application: Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles. Cities 149, 104918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104918

• Guan, C. *, You, M. (2024) Integrating landscape and urban development in a comprehensive landscape sensitivity index: A case study of the Appalachian Trail Region. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 93, 128234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128234

• Guo, J., Gao, J., Gao, S., Yan, K., Zhang, B., Guan, C.*. (2024) Increasing impacts of China’s oil and gas demands on global CH4 emissions. Science of the Total Environment 912, 169624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169624

• Gao, S., Zhang, G., Guan, C., Mao, H., Zhang, B., Liu, H. (2024) The expansion of global LNG trade and its implications for CH4 emissions mitigation. Environmental Research Letters 19(1), 014022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0eff

• Guan, C., Gómez, J., Tripathy, P., Duque, J., Passos, S., Cheng, T., Li, Y., Keith, M. (2023) Evaluating the sensitivity of water protection policy on urban growth: A case study of Jiaxing. Special issue - Data science for developing cities. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 1-20 https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231163182

• Guan, C.*, Tan, J., Li, Y., Tong, C., Yang, J., Liu, C., Keith, M. (2023) How do density, employment and transit affect the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic? A study of 3,141 counties across the United States. Health & Place 84, 103117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103117

• Guan, C.*, Yan, K., Zhang, B., Li, Y., Zhang, X. (2023) The efficacy of mortgage lending on geographically disparate and differently priced residential neighborhoods in Shanghai. The Professional Geographer 75(3) 495-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2148902

• You, M., Huang, J., Guan, C.* (2023) Are new towns prone to urban heat island effect? Implications for planning form and function. Sustainable Cities and Society 99, 104939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104939

• Yang, Y., Cheng, D., Zhang, B., Guan, C.*, Cheng, X., Cheng, T. (2023) Coal resource-based cities at the crossroads: Towards a sustainable future. Cities 140, 100424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104424

• Liu, H., Yang, M., Guan, C.*, Chen, S., Keith, M., You, M., Menendez, M. (2023) Urban infrastructure design principles for connected and autonomous vehicles: A case study of Oxford, UK. Computational Urban Science 3(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00110-0

• Chen, Z., Deng, Y., Xie, C., Guan, C., Pan, T. (2023) Network equilibrium of battery electric vehicles considering drivers’ resting behavior. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 155, 104305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104305

• Cheng, X., Wu. X., Guan, C., Sun, X., Zhang, B. (2023) Impacts of production structure changes on global CH4 emissions: Evidences from income-based accounting and decomposition analysis. Ecological Economics 213, 107967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107967

• Liu, C., Ye, X., Yuan, X., Long, Y., Zhang, W., Guan, C., Zhang, F. (2023) Roundtable discussion: Progress of urban informatics in urban planning. Frontiers of Urban and Rural Planning 1(23) https://doi.org/10.1007/s44243-023-00014-x

• Liu, J., Cheng, F., Commane, R., Zhu, Y., Ji, W., Man, X., Guan, C., Munger, W. (2023) Quantifying an overlooked deciduous-needleleaf carbon sink at the southern margin of the central-Siberian permafrost zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006845

• Hong, A., Baker, L., Curiel, R., Duminy, J, Buswala, B., Guan, C., Ravindranath, D. (2023) Reconciling big data and thick data to advance the new urban science and smart city governance. Journal of Urban Affairs 45(10), 1737-1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.2021085

• Guan, C., Wang, Y., Keith, M., Li, Y., Cao, G. (2022) Does local planning of fast-growing medium-sized towns lead to higher urban intensity or to sprawl? Cases from Zhejiang Province. Cities 130, 103869.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103869

• Ren, X., Guan, C.*, Wang, D, Yang, J., Keith, M. (2022) Exploring land use functional variance using mobile phone derived human activity data in Shanghai. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 49(9), 2531-2547. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221103261

• Ren, X., Guan, C.*. (2022) Evaluating geographic and social inequality of urban parks in Shanghai through mobile phone-derived human activities. In special issue - Inequalities of infrastructure in the context of healthy and resilient cities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 76, 127709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127709

• Bogdanowicz, A., Guan, C.* (2022) Dynamic topic modeling of Twitter data during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE 17(5) e0268669. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268669

• Shi, Y., Yang, J. Keith, M., Song, K., Li, Y., Guan, C.*. (2022) Spatial accessibility patterns to public hospitals in Shanghai: An improved gravity model. The Professional Geographer 74(2), 265-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.2000445

• Guan, C.*, Tan, J., Hall, B., Liu, C., Li, Y., Cai, Z. (2022) The effect of the built environment on the COVID-19 pandemic at the initial stage: A county level study of the United States. Sustainability 14(6), 3417.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063417

• You, M., Guan, C.*, Lai, R. (2022) Spatial structure of an urban park system based on fractal theory: A case study of Fuzhou, China. Remote Sensing 14, 2144. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14092144

• Cai, Z., Guan, C.*, Trinh, A., Zhang, B., Chen, Z., Srinivasan, S., Nielsen, C. (2022) Satisfaction on self-perceived health of urban residents in Chengdu, China: Gender, age and the built environment. Sustainability 14(20), 13389.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013389

• Sun, X., Cheng, X., Guan, C., Wu, X., Zhang, B. (2022) Economic drivers of global and regional CH4 emission growth from the consumption perspective. Energy Policy 170, 113242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113242

• Wang, X., Tian. W., Guan, C., Wu, X., Sun, X., Zhang, B. (2022) Global temporal evolution of CH4 emissions via geo-economic integration. Journal of Environmental Management 305, 114377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114377

• Gao, J., Guan, C., Zhang, B. (2022) Why are methane emissions from China's oil & natural gas systems still unclear? A review of current bottom-up inventories. Science of the Total Environment 807(3), 151076.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151076

• Sun, X., Li, Z., Cheng, X., Guan, C., Han, M., Zhang, B. (2022) Global anthropogenic CH4 emissions from 1970 to 2018: Gravity movement and decoupling evolution. Resources, Conservation & Recycling 182, 106335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106335

• Liu, Y., Ma, R., Guan, C., Chen, B., Zhang, B. (2022) Global trade network and CH4 emission outsourcing. Science of the Total Environment 803, 150008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150008

Education

• DDes
  Harvard University
• MDes
  Harvard University
• MArch
  Washington University in St. Louis
• BArch
  Southeast University