Zhao, Jianting, PhD.

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

Zhao, K. J., Chang, R. A., & Sun, G. (2025). Experiment unlearned: Unpacking leadership and learning of key actors in a Hong Kong street experiment. Journal of Urban Mobility, 7, 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2024.100091 

Zhao J., Sun G., and Webster C., 2024. Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-Induced Street Transitions. Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104931

Zhao J., Sun G., and Webster C., 2022. Does China-Pakistan Economic Corridor improve connectivity in Pakistan? A protocol assessing the planned transport network infrastructure. Journal of Transport Geography 100(March). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103327

Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Wu, X. and Lo, S.M., 2021. Escaping to nature during a pandemic: a natural experiment in Asian cities during the COVID-19 pandemic with big social media data. Science of The Total Environment, 777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146092

Sun, G., Du, Y., Ni, M.Y., Zhao, J. and Webster, C., 2021. Metro and elderly health in Hong Kong: protocol for a natural experiment study in a high-density city. BMJ Open, 11(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmjopen-2020-043983 

Zhao, J., Sun, G. and Webster, C., 2020. Walkability scoring: Why and how does a 3-dimensional pedestrian network matter? Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320977871 

RTPI Early Career Award (2021) – Shortlisted and Commendation 

IACP Student Paper Award (2021)

Sun, G., Zhao, J., Webster, C. and Lin, H., 2020. New metro system and active travel: A natural experiment. Environment International, 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105605 

Research Output Prize 2021 in the Faculty of Architecture, HKU

Long, Y. and Zhao, J.^, 2020. What Makes a City Bikeable? A Study of Intercity and Intracity Patterns of Bicycle Ridership using Mobike Big Data Records. Built Environment, 46(1), pp.55-75. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.46.1.55 [^shared first authorship]

Long, Y., Zhao, J., Li, S., Zhou, Y., & Xu, L., 2018. The Large-Scale Calculation of “Walk Score” of Main Cities in China. New Architecture, 3, 4–8. https://doi.org/10.12069/j.na.201803001 

Invited Talks

World Resources Institute (WRI), “How can urban experimentation facilitate urban mobility transition? Researching on the transitional capacity of tactical urbanism”, September 2024, Beijing, China. 

Peking University (PKU), “Unveiling the Transitional Capacities of Tactical Urbanism: An Inquiry into Spatial Development, Public Engagement, and Learning in Pandemic-Induced Street Experiments”, PKU-UCL Workshop on Urban Transformations and the Future of Urban Governance, September 2024, Beijing, China.  

Bogota Secretariat of Mobility, “Death and Life of Pandemic-induced Street Experiments: an Experiential Learning Analysis”, June 2024, Bogotá, Colombia. 

University College London (UCL) The Bartlett School of Planning, “Experiential learning in pandemic-induced street experiments: How does key initiators’ experiential learning contribute to transformative capacity”, November 2023, London, UK.  

TU Dortmund University Department of Spatial Planning, “Transport policy adaptation through pandemic induced street experiments: the contribution of experiential learning”, August 2022, Dortmund, Germany.