Publications
My research generated outputs across peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and other media. 1 of the journal papers are indexed in SCIE, 1 indexed in A&HCI, 3 indexed in CSCD, and 2 indexed in CSSCI.
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Qian Liu, Gerardo Semprebon, Kun Li
(2025).
The impact of city walls on urban expansion and structure of small historical cities: a Space Syntax analysis of Zhengding, China.
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2025.
This study employs Space Syntax analysis to examine the urban expansion of Zhengding, a small historical city in northern China. Focusing on the impact of the city walls…
Laura Anna Pezzetti, Kun Li, Qian Liu
(2025).
Continuing to Write: Type-morphology, Latent Structures, and the Urban Project for the Chinese City.
The Architect, 2025(2).
This paper discusses an approach to studying cities and architecture based on the Milan tradition，emphasising architectural design as a way of understanding urban reality，considering the urban site as…
Qian Liu, Yiran Liu, Laura Pezzetti
(2025).
Open spaces as the key to the integration issue of historical site reconstruction projects: a cross‑cultural comparison.
Built Heritage, 2025, 9(10).
The reconstruction of historical sites, while a controversial practice, has been common in both Germany and China to mitigate the cultural losses incurred during wars…
Qian Liu, Laura Pezzetti
(2023).
The simplified courtyard and its public space in North China’s small cities: significance, threats, and opportunities.
35th AESOP Annual Congress 2023.
This study defined as ‘Simplified Courtyard’ a type of urban house widely built in the 1970s 1990s in small cities in North China. Together with their public and semi-public spaces…
Qian Liu, Laura Pezzetti
(2022).
Role of public spaces between built heritage and living city: the case of Changle Gate in Zhengding, China.
34th AESOP Annual Congress 2022.
Public spaces are ‘stages upon which the drama of communal life unfolds’ (Carr et al., 1992). They stimulate communication and integration among people of different social classes and groups…
Qian Liu, Laura Pezzetti
(2022).
Tourism-boosting rebuilding of historic buildings and urban form: the case study of Yanghe Tower and its urban morphology in Zhengding, China.
XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form 2021.
Tourism has recently been viewed as an economic growth engine for Chinese small historic cities, including Zhengding in Northern China. However, the intensive…
Hexuan Dong, Qian Liu, Fang Wang
(2018).
Miniature public space planning: a case study of Hanyang District in Wuhan.
City Planning Review, 2018, 42(4).
As small-scale public space containing daily life, miniature public space is an important tool of micro-regeneration. Firstly, this paper analyzes the concept…
Hexuan Dong, Qian Liu, Shuangting Li
(2017).
Large-scale public space construction based on grey and green infrastructure: from experience of Boston to contemporary practice.
Chinese Landscape Architecture, 2017, 33(10).
Grey and green infrastructure are important resources for constructing public space in cities. ‘Emerald Necklace’, Charles River Park and ‘Big Dig’ are analyzed…
Hexuan Dong, Qian Liu
(2016).
The production of urban mini-type public space: another half mission of architectural design.
New Architecture, 2016, (06).
Responding to the relationship between architectural design and the production of urban mini-type public space,and from the perspective of urban design,this article…
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