Research Fields

• rural and regional planning; sustainability transitions; new towns; housing

Dr. Harry den Hartog is faculty member at CAUP where he and lectures urban design and housing, and coaches design studios. He holds a PhD from TU Delft in the Netherlands and currently also works for TU Delft as researcher on rural and regional revitalization (https://ruralfootprints.blog). In 2004 he founded his own thinktank type studio Urban Language (https://www.urbanlanguage.org), specialized in urban and rural research and design. He published multiple articles, papers and books in various media worldwide, and is regularly invited for lectures, debates and exhibitions.

Main fields of expertise:

· Rural and regional revitalization studies

· Waterfront transformations

· Sustainable transitions

· New town (re)development research and design

· Housing and high-density urban complex

Main Courses

1. Studio Regeneration of a New Town

2. Studio Residential Planning

3. Studio Rural Planning

4. Studio Urban Complex

5. Studio Urban Design

6. Studio Urban Waterfront Regeneration

7. Design studio IV

8. Discussions on contemporary urban planning and design in China

Journal articles

Den Hartog, Harry (2023). Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts. A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 18. DOI: 10.7480/ABE.2023.18.

Den Hartog, Harry (2023). Searching for Reconnection: Environmental Challenges and Course Changes in Spatial Development Along Shanghai’s Shipping Channels. Urban Planning. DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i3.6834.

Den Hartog, Harry & Martinez, Placido Gonzalez (2023). Integrating heritage assets in large commercial complexes: de-contextualization and re-signification of memory in Shanghai. Habitat International. DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102601.

Den Hartog, Harry (2021). Shanghai's Strive to Excel in Climate Change Adaptation and Low-Carbon Promises: A Model to Follow? Can Shanghai Become an Excellent Example for Climate Change Adaptation? In: (ed.) Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina Wyman, John Coughlin. Global Sustainable Cities. NYU Press.

Den Hartog, Harry (2021). Engineering an ecological civilization along Shanghai’s main waterfront and coastline: Evaluating ongoing efforts to construct an urban eco‐network. Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.639739.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.639739/full.

Den Hartog, Harry (2021). Shanghai’s Regenerated Industrial Waterfronts: Urban Lab for Sustainability Transitions? Urban Planning, 6 (3), 181-196. DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i3.4194

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/4194.

Den Hartog, Harry (2019). Re-defining the appreciation and usability of urban watersides in the urban center and peri-urban fringes of Shanghai. European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2(1), 37–64. DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.2612-0496/8918.

https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/8918/9952.

Den Hartog, Harry, Sengers, Frans, Xu, Ye, Xie, Linjun, Jiang, Ping, De Jong, Martin (2018). Low-carbon promises and realities: Lessons from three socio-technical experiments in Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production, 181, 692–702. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.003

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261830307X.

Den Hartog, Harry (2017). Searching for a New Identity in a Rapidly Trans-forming Urban Landscape. Built Heritage 1 (2), 41-50. DOI: 10.1186/bf03545662.

https://built-heritage.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/BF03545662.

Den Hartog, Harry (2017). Rural to urban transitions at Shanghai's fringes: Explaining spatial transformation in the backyard of a Chinese mega-city with the help of the Layers-Approach. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. Vol.5 No.4, 54-72. DOI: 10.14246/irspsd.5.4_54.

DEN HARTOG, Harry (2010). Shanghai New Towns - Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis. 010 Publishers. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10539.67366.

DEN HARTOG, Harry (2006). Exurbia – Wonen buiten de stad. Episode Publishers / Jap Sam Books.