Waterfront Analysis and Design: Comparative Report of Beijing, Suzhou and Yinchuan

YANG Yifan, the former deputy chief planner of China Architecture Design and Research Group, director of Urban Planning Design and Research Centre, and current the Vice President and chief planner of China Urban Development Planning and Desgn Consulting Co., Ltd. He is Member of Urban Design Professional Board Appointted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development, Executive Member of Urban Planning Society of Beijing, President of Urban Renewal Branch of Beijing Engineering Exploration and Design Association, and professor level senior planner.

Born in 1957 in Nanjing, currently works at the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) as a Professor, Doctoral Advisor, Director of Urban Design Research Institute and academic leader for urban and rural planning. He is also the first-class registered architect, member of Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), Vice Chairman of Academic Committee of Urban Design, Member of Urban Design Professional Board Appointted by the Ministry of Housing and Urbanrural Development, member of Chinese Society for Urban Studies and its Urban Design Department of Historical and Cultural City Committee, and member of Academic Committee of Urban Image UPSC.

Architect and urbanist, Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne directing the Lab-U and the interdisciplinary Habitat Research Centre, and at UniversitÀ‚ IUAV of Venice. One of the founders and the scientific board members of the European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU). She was guest professor in GSD, Harvard, a Thomas Jefferson Professorship at University of Virginia, and several European schools of Architecture. In 2013 she was the first woman to receive the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in France. She was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in 2016, won the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017, and the Golden Medal of the Milan Triennale in 2018. In 1990 she founded Studio Associato Bernardo Secchi Paola ViganÀ‚ (Studio Paola ViganÀ‚ since 2014) with Bernardo Secchi. Studio has been practicing on architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and won numerous international competitions and awards.

Professor and Doctoral Advisor of Tianjin University, School of Architecture, President of Tianjin University Research Institute of Architectural Design and Urban Planning, Member of China Engineering and Consulting Association (CECA), Vice President of Higher Education Branch of CECA, senior member of Architectural Society of China, Vice Chairman of Urban Planning Society of Tianjin, Vice President of Tianjin Exploration and Design Association, and consultant of People’s Government of Yingtan, Jiangxi Province. He is in charge of national key research projects, meanwhile, directs and participates in multiple scientific research projects at national and provincial & ministerial levels. He has been responsible for strategic planning, urban overall planning, all levels of urban design, etc.

Professor, PhD, Doctoral Advisor, leading the discipline of landscape architecture in the Architecture College of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT). She works on the specialty education of landscape architecture and academic researches in three directions, including Theory and History of Chinese Landscape Culture, Theory and Method of Planning and Designing Landscape in Arid and Semiarid Regions, and the Evolution of Modern Urban Morphology in Xi’an. She has been involved, leading or collaborating, in 7 researches unded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 7 monograghs and more than 30 papers. Besides, she has directed over 20 practices. She is currently a member of Teaching and Steering Subcommittee of Landscape Architecture Education Under the Ministry of Education, and member of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA).

Born in 1970, Dutch architect, urban designer and academic. He is educated at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His design experience is built up with work at several internationally known Dutch developing and design offices like Ballast Nedam and One Architecture whilst running projects in collaboration with for example O.M.A. and MVRDV. In this work he was rewarded with the Dutch Young Architect Talent Grant. With the Dutch urban designer Peter Smit he established the firm CITY4870, designing on all levels of urbanism. In recent years, Marco LUB is focusing on the academics. Together with a great team, he founded the first bachelor school of Urban Design in the Netherlands at the Saxion University of Applied Science. Nowadays he is a senior lecturer at the faculty of Architecture TUD and conducting his PhD research about Dutch/Chinese urban design education.

Born in 1972, coordinator of the European Post master in Urbanism — EMU at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherl and also a guest researcher at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He is an architect, urbanist and urban designer with over 20 years of experience. He graduated as an architect in Brazil and has an advanced master’s degree (with honours) in Urbanism from TU Delft.His research focuses on planning instruments and urban morphology, particularly investigating the processes of segregation and encounter in the urban environment. His work has been presented and published in several conferences such as the Association of European Schools of Planning 2017, the International Seminar on Urban Form 2018, The International Planning History Society 2018 and at the Space Syntax symposia, 2015, 2017, 2019.