Social and Urban Policy
Urban and Social
Well-grounded urban and social policies related to housing, transportation, employment, health care, and income distribution, etc., are essential for the long-run development of society and the living standard of residents. Contemporary urban and social policy research requires cutting edge statistical methodologies as well as science and technology understanding.
Faculty members of subclusters (in alphabetic order of last names)
Big Data and Urban Planning: Pengyu ZHU
Sustainable Transportation: Anthony Bing-leung CHEUNG, Pengyu ZHU
Housing and Land Use Policy: Anthony Bing-leung CHEUNG, Donald How Tian LOW, Pengyu ZHU
Population, Aging, and Family Policy: Stuart GIETEL BASTEN, Anthony Bing-leung CHEUNG, Donald How Tian LOW
Poverty and inequality: Anthony Bing-leung CHEUNG, Donald How Tian LOW, Pauline NG, James WONG
Urban Planning: Yatang LIN, Gerald R. PATCHELL, Masaru YARIME, Pengyu ZHU
Health Policy: King Lau CHOW, Xun WU
Selected Social and Urban Research Projects
Selected Research Project | Funding Agency | Faculty |
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Preparing and Deploying Ethnic Minority Lay Leaders to Promote Mental Well-Being Among Hong Kong’s Major Ethnic Minority Communities (Ongoing) |
The HKSAR administered Mental Health Initiatives Funding |
(Principal Investigator) |
Strategic Planning for Transforming Hong Kong into a Leading Global Aviation and Innovation Hub (Ongoing) |
Airport Authority Hong Kong, Hong Kong Aviation Industry Association, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation |
(Principal Investigator) |
The Persistence of Behavioral Changes in Post-Pandemic Hong Kong: Implications for Transportation, Housing and Economic Development Policies (Ongoing) |
The Policy Innovation and Coordination Office (PICO) |
(Principal Investigator) and (Co-investigator) |
The research of influence factors on COVID-19 incidence rate in China based on big data (Ongoing) |
Guangdong Natural Science Foundation |
(Principal Investigator) |
Research on Affordable Housing and Urbanizing Villages in Beijing (2019-2020) |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development |
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Research on Residential Segregation of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. (2018-2020) |
University of Hong Kong |
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A Comparative Study of the Science and Technology Funding Systems and Project Management in Hong Kong and Mainland (2019) |
Department of Resource Allocation and Management, Ministry of Science and Technology, China |
(Principal Investigator) |
Strategies for Enhancing Walkability in Hong Kong via Smart Policies (2018-2021) |
Strategic Public Policy Research Fund (SPPR), The Policy Innovation and Coordination Office (PICO) |
(Co-investigator) |
Study on Improvement of Primary Health Care Service Capacity |
National Science Foundation of China |
(Co-investigator) |