Dr Siqing (Simon) Chen is a senior lecturer in landscape architecture. Trained in China and the United States as a land use planner and landscape architect, Siqing has practiced since 2002 in a range of private and public sector settings in China and U.S. before his academic appointment at the University of Melbourne.
Siqing's research concerns emerging issues of landscape planning, energy landscape, and ecological urbanism with emphasis on sustaining the built environment. He has been involved in projects funded by the Australian, Chinese, and U.S. governments, private enterprises and industrial bodies, and has won numerous design and research excellence awards in the U.S., China, and Australia. Drawing on his ongoing research and practice, Siqing teaches Bachelors Site Planning and Design studio, Masters Landscape Planning studio, GIS, and Geodesign.
Currently Siqing has increasingly focused on the application of GIS and spatial modelling tools to the visualization, simulation and evaluation of the environmental impacts of the rapid urbanisation in post-reform China and the ever-expanding urban regions in Australia. He has recently secured a research grant to explore Australia's solar energy landscape and ways of designing sustainable communities powered by renewable energy. Siqing has published 40 refereed journal articles and conference papers on GIS-based landscape assessment and planning, sustainable urban development, and environmental decision-making support. His recent book Designing Ecologies: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Sustainable Housing Developments (2011) proposes a new process-based approach for the design, planning, and construction of new communities considering environmental, economic and cultural sustainability against conventional suburban sprawl.
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FEATURED Journal article
How Do Spatial Patterns Impact Regulation of Water-Related Ecosystem Services? Insights from a New Town Development in the Yangtze River Delta, China
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Graham Treloar Early Career Research Fellowship
Outstanding Graduate Student
Research Excellence Award
Outstanding International Student
Book Award
Sigma Lambda Alpha Landscape Architecture Honor Society
Credentials
Positions
Senior Lecturer
Architecture, Building And Planning
American Planning Association
American Planning Association
Australian Society Of Ecology
Ecological Society of Australia
Honor Society Landscape Architecture
Sigma Lambda Alpha Landscape Architecture Honor Society
American Society Of Landscape Architecture
American Society of Landscape Architecture
Education
Master of Landscape Architecture
Auburn University
Doctor of Philosophy
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Master of Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences