Jiang, Bin 姜斌

Dr Bin JIANG is Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He has a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an advocate of the ‘Healthy City & Healthy Landscape’ campaign in East Asia. Trained as a landscape researcher and architect with a background in design, humanity, and environment psychology, Dr Jiang’s research interests include the impacts of built environments on human health and wellbeing, environmental justice and security, landscape empowerment of deprived communities, and contemporary landscape architecture.

Dr Jiang is a Co-Chair of Research and Methods Track in Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) in USA. He is the founding director of Virtual Reality Lab of Urban Environments and Human Health in HKU. He is a fellow of the China Society for Urban Studies and a consultant expert for many governmental and professional organisations. Dr Jiang is serving for international and national-level journals as an editorial board member or international editor, including Landscape Research, Frontiers in Psychology (Environment Psychology), Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, and Landscape Architecture (China).

Dr. Jiang also works as a landscape planner and designer. As a practitioner, he has worked closely with two important contemporary landscape architects: Kongjian Yu and Peter Walker. He had a 15 years’ continuous practice experience since 2005.

Key journal articles

• Lu, Y., Chen, L., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Sullivan, W.C., Xu, W., Webster, C., Jiang, B.* (2021). Green space mitigates racial disparity of health: A higher ratio of green spaces indicates a lower racial disparity in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in the USA. Environment International, 152, 106465.
• Jiang, B.*, Shen, K., Sullivan, W.C., Yang, Y., Liu, X., Lu, Y.* (2021). A natural experiment reveals impacts of built environment on suicide rate: Developing an environmental theroy of suicide. Science of the Total Environment, 776(2021), 145750.
• Jiang, B.*, He, J., Chen, J., & Larsen, L. (2021). Moderate is optimal: A simulated driving experiment reveals freeway landscape matters for driving performance.Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 126976.
• Chang, D.H.F.^#, Jiang, B.^#, Wong, N.H.L., Wong, J.J., Webster, C.*, Lee, T.M.C*. (2020). The human posterior cingulate and the stress-response benefits of viewing green urban landscapes. NeuroImage, 226, 117555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117555. (# equal contribution).
• Jiang, B*. (2020). Urban Natural Landscape and Citizens’ Mental Health: Key Issues. Landscape Architecture. 27 (9): 17-23. doi: 14085/j.fjyl.2020.09.0017.07. (In Chinese)
• Jiang, B.*, He, J., Chen, J., Larsen, L., & Wang, H. (2020). Perceived green at speed: A simulated driving experiment raises new questions for attention restoration theory and stress reduction theory. Environment and Behavior. Doi: 10.1177/0013916520947111.
• Jiang, B*., Wang, H.Q., Larsen, L., Bao, F., Li, Z., & Pryor, M. (2019). Quality of sweatshop factory outdoor environments matters for workers’ stress and anxiety: A participatory smartphone-photography survey.Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101336. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101336
• Zhang, X. L. & Jiang, B*. (2019). Cultivation of Grit: A Type of Nature Education for Urban Preschool Children.Landscape Architecture. 26 (10): 40-47. doi: 10.14085/j.fjyl.2019.10.0040.08. (In Chinese)
• Jiang, B*. (2019). Nine Questions toward Influences of Emerging Science and Technology on Urban Environment Planning and Design.Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 7(2), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-20190206
• Jiang, B*., Mak, C. N. S., Zhong, H., Larsen, L., & Webster, C. J. (2018). From Broken Windows to Perceived Routine Activities: Examining Impacts of Environmental Interventions on Perceived Safety of Urban Alleys. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2450). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02450
• Jiang, B*., Schmillen, R., & Sullivan, W. C. (2018). How to waste a break: using portable electronic devices substantially counteracts attention enhancement effects of green spaces.Environment and Behavior. doi: 10.1177/0013916518788603
• Jiang, B*., Chen, J., & Wang, L. (2018). Cardiovascular diseases due to stress arisen from social risk factors: A synopsis and prospectiveness.Nano LIFE. doi: 10.1142/S1793984418400032
• Suppakittpaisarn, P*., Jiang, B., Slavenas, M., & Sullivan, W. C. (2018). Does density of green infrastructure predict preference? Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.02.007
• Jiang, B*. (2018). The road to a healthy city: The benefits of Urban Nature for Mental Health.Urban and Rural Planning. 2018 (3): 13-20. (In Chinese)
• Jiang, B*., Mak, C. N. S., Larsen, L., & Zhong, H. (2017). Minimizing the gender difference in perceived safety: Comparing the effects of urban back alley interventions.Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, 117-131. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.03.012
• Jiang, B*., Deal, B., Pan, H., Larsen, L., Hsieh, C.-H., Chang, C.-Y., & Sullivan, W. C. (2017). Remotely-sensed imagery vs. eye-level photography: Evaluating associations among measurements of tree cover density. Landscape and Urban Planning, 157, 270-281. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.07.010
• Jiang, B*. (2017). Measuring Impacts of Ordinary Green Landscapes On Human Health And Transforming Research Findings Into Design Solutions: Four Important Issues. Time+Architecture, 157, p. 34-37. (In Chinese)
• Jiang, B*., Li, L., Zhang, T. (2017). Exploring Relationship between Urban Spatial Elements and Public Health: Using‘the Image of City’Theory as a Research Framework. Shanghai Urban Planning Review, 134, 63-68. (In Chinese)
• Jiang, B*., Li, D., Larsen, L., & Sullivan, W. C. (2016). A Dose-Response Curve Describing the Relationship Between Urban Tree Cover Density and Self-Reported Stress Recovery.Environment and Behavior, 48(4), 607-629. doi: 10.1177/0013916514552321
• Jiang, B*., Larsen, L., Deal, B., & Sullivan, W. C. (2015). A dose–response curve describing the relationship between tree cover density and landscape preference.Landscape and Urban Planning, 139(0), 16-25. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.02.018
• Jiang, B*., Zhang,T., Sullivan, W.C. (2015). Healthy Cities: Mechanisms and Research Questions Regarding the Impacts of Urban Green Landscapes on Public Health and Well-being.Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 3(1), 24-35.
• Jiang, B*. (2015). Examining the Urban Environment through the Eyes of a Pediatrician: an Interview with Richard J. Jackson.Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 3(1), 62-69.
• Jiang, B., Chang, C. Y., & Sullivan, W. C*. (2014). A dose of nature: Tree cover, stress reduction, and gender differences. Landscape and Urban Planning, 132, 26-36.

Published Book and a relevant talk

• Jiang, B. eds. Landscape empowerment: A participatory design approach to create restorative environments for assembly line workers in the Foxconn Factory. Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2066-2. eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2067-9. Doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-2067-9.
• “Healing souls in the city.” A YiXi talk. YiXi.cn. Jan 19, 2019.