Name: Jie Chen

Position/Title: Assistant Professor

Address: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Email: j_chen@tongji.edu.cn

Research Fields

Urban Regeneration, Urban Informality, Land Property Rights

Research Profile

Jie Chen is an Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China. She completed her PhD on Planning and Urban Development at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include urban regeneration, heritage conservation, and urban informality under ambiguous property rights, with research published in high-ranking journals including CITIES, Eurasian Geography and Economics, International Journal of Heritage Studies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, URBAN DESIGN International, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. She has received research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Postdoctoral International Exchange Fellowship Program, and the CSC Scholarship-High Level Graduate Program. She also serves as a reviewer for International Journal of Heritage Studies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Current Courses

Architectural Design-I (International Class Program)

Architectural Design-II (International Class Program)

Architectural Design-III (International Class Program)

Architectural Design-IV (International Class Program)

Introduction to Design (International Class Program)

Introduction to Architecture (International Class Program)

Theories of Architectural Design (International Class Program)

Publications in International Books, Journals, and Conferences

1. Jie Chen & Yiming Wang. 2024. Formalizing ambiguous property rights as panacea? Informal urban regeneration in Shanghai. Eurasian Geography and Economics, online publication, https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2024.2363371 (SSCI Q1) 

2. Jie Chen*. 2024. Book review: The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration, The Global South, 17(1): 137-141.

3. Jie Chen*. 2023. Industrial heritage reuse policies on the move: Comparative case studies of Shanghai and Chongqing, China. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(7):844-861 (SSCI Q1, A&HCI)

4. Jie Chen & Yiming Wang. 2022. Ambiguous property rights as a double-edged sword: A case study of industrial land redevelopment in Shanghai, China. CITIES, 126: 103686 (SSCI Q1)

5. Jie Chen* & Bruce Judd. 2021. Relationality and territoriality: Rethinking policy circulation of industrial heritage reuse in Chongqing, China. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27 (1): 16-38 (SSCI Q1, A&HCI)

6. Yiming Wang & Jie Chen*. 2021. Privatizing the urban commons under ambiguous property rights in China: Is marketization a remedy to the tragedy of the commons? American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 80 (2): 503-547 (SSCI, Wiley Top Cited Article 2021-2022)

7. Yiming Wang & Jie Chen. 2018. Does the rise of pseudo-public spaces lead to the ‘End of Public Space’ in large Chinese cities? Evidence from Shanghai and Chongqing, URBAN DESIGN International, 23(3): 215-235 (SSCI, A&HCI)

8. Jie Chen & Yiming Wang. 2022. Power relations in industrial land redevelopment and loss of industrial heritage in Chongqing, China. In: The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods, Wilmington: Vernon Press, 63-76.

9. Jie Chen*, Bruce Judd, Scott Hawken. 2016. Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage for cultural purposes in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, Structural Survey (International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation), 34 (4/5): 331-350 (EI)

10. Jie Chen*. Visualizing the data for industrial heritage reuse studies: A case in Chongqing, China, Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2020: pp.603-608 (EI, Best Paper Award)

11. Jie Chen & Yiming Wang*. Cultural approach to industrial heritage reuse: Experience from Shanghai, China, The 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Doha, November 2020-February 2021.

12. Jie Chen* & Bruce Judd. Interpreting the industrial landscape transformation in post-reform China: From production to consumption Spaces, The 2017 International Conference on China Urban Development, University College London, London, 5-6 May 2017.

13. Jie Chen*, Bruce Judd & Scott Hawken. Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage for cultural purposes in three Chinese mega-cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, Proceeding of the 21st Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, 8-10 July 2015.

Grants and Awards

China National Science Foundation-Youth Program, Principle, 2021-2023

Postdoctoral International Exchange Fellowship Program, Principle, 2019-2022

The CSC Scholarship-High Level Graduate Program, Principle, 2013-2018