ChengHe Guan

ChengHe Guan
Director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science, Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Assistant Professor, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU
Email
cg157@nyu.edu
Room
N852
Homepage Link
https://urban.shanghai.nyu.edu/

ChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU Wagner. Dr. Guan is the founding co-director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) https://urban.shanghai.nyu.edu/. He serves as Ph.D. advisor for NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University. Additionally, he serves as a working committee member of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Prosperity Alliance Office in Shanghai.

Select Publications

  • Ren, X., Guan, C.*, Chen, S., You, M., Li, Y., Huang, K. (2025) Planning for Rhythmized Urban Parks: Temporal Park Classification and Modes of Action. Journal of the American Planning Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2025.2523604
  • Song, J., Guan, C.*, Zhou, Y., Akiyama Y., Shibasaki R. (2025) Visitor profile-oriented urban park categorization: Analyzing home-to-park trip characteristics using mobile phone data. Journal of Planning Education and Research. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X251347237
  • Feng, Y., Huang, S., Chen, S., Guan, C.*, Li, Y., Tan, Q., Jin, Y., Yang, X., Xu, Y. (2025) Dataset for visitations of public green spaces in Shanghai, China. Scientific Data (Nature Portfolio) 12, 1260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05581-w
  • Guan, C.*, Zhou, Y. (2024) Exploring environmental and social equity in peri-urban parks: A mobile phone data-driven analysis in Tokyo. Landscape and Urban Planning 248, 105104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105104
  • 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

Education

  • DDes
    Harvard University
  • MDes
    Harvard University
  • MArch
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • BArch
    Southeast University
Research Interests
Dr. Guan’s research focuses on spatial analytics of urban morphology and green infrastructure planning, organized around three interconnected themes: (1) AI-enhanced urban spatial and digital analytics; (2) Blue-green infrastructure analytics with urban sensing techniques; and (3) Climate-adaptive city development and simulation. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Nature Communications, Scientific Data, npj Urban Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), Communications Earth & Environment (Nature Portfolio), Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of the American Planning Association, Landscape and Urban Planning, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, and Cities. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=VXqmlksAAAAJ&hl=en
Courses Taught
  • Urbanization in China
  • Planning Global Cities
  • Social Science Honors Independent Study
  • Spatial Dynamics of Urbanization