Speakers

Prof. Yuefang Rong

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Prof. Yuefang Rong graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2007 with a PhD degree in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is currently a professor and head of the Department of Urban and Rural Planning in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing Architecture University.

Her main research areas are urban and regional development strategy, small and medium-sized city planning and design, urban and rural planning and design evaluation. She mainly teaches courses including Principles of Urban and Rural Planning, Business Fundamentals for Planners, Urban and Rural Planning and Design (III) (Urban Master Planning and Detailed Control Planning), Graduation Design and other core courses of the planning program. She is the author of monographs “Research on Harbin Winter Olympics Construction Planning Countermeasures Based on Catalyst Theory”, “Research on Local Sustainable Tourism Planning”, “Witness Planning”; and published textbook “Urban Sociology”. She has published more than 30 papers in professional journals, including one in Urban Planning, two in Journal of Urban Planning and two in Planner. She has won more than 15 design awards at the provincial level and above since she started her career, including the Third Prize of Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2006. She has won more than 20 awards in the selection of students' work organized by the Specialized Instruction Committee.