ARTICLES
Authored over 100 academic publications, including more than 40 papers indexed in SCI and EI journals.
Representative works from the past five years are listed below.
1. Wenwen Huang, Xukai Zhao, Guangsi Lin, Zhifang Wang, Mengyun Chen. 2025.How to quantify multidimensional perception of urban parks? Integrating deep learning-based social media data analysis with questionnaire survey methods, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 107, 128754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128754.
2. Kexin Cheng, Angshuo Zhan, Haoyuan Luo, Yujing Ma and Zhifang Wang*, 2024. The Influencing Thresholds and Interactive Effects of Urban Green Spaces on Housing Prices: A Case Study of Beijing, China. Land , 13, 2161. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13122161.
3. Bai, Z., Zhifang WANG., Li, D., Wang, X., Jian, Y., 2024. The relationships between 2D and 3D green index altered by spatial attributes at high spatial resolution. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 101, 128540. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128540
4. 王志芳, & 白竹惠. (2024). 确保设计研究有用的核心之一：设计参数与研究调参路径. 风景园林, 31(8), 22–27.
Zhifang Wang*, Zhuhui Bai. 2024. One of the Core Leverages to Ensure the Applicability of Design Research: Design Parameters and Paths for Adjusting Design Parameters Through Research. Landscape Architecture. 31(8), 22–27. DOI: 10.3724/j.fjyl.202401050014
5. Ma, Y., Koomen, E., Rouwendal, J., & Zhifang WANG. (2024). The increasing value of urban parks in a growing metropole. Cities, 147, 104794.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104794
6. Zhenyu SHANG, Kexin CHENG, Yuqing JIAN, Zhifang WANG*. Comparison and Applicability Study of Analysis Methods for Social Media Text Data: Taking Perception of Urban Parks in Beijing as an Example. Landsc. Archit. Front., 2023, 11(5): 8‒29https://doi.org/10.15302/J-LAF-1-020083
7. Zhifang Wang, Angshuo Zhan,Yunzhu Tao, Yuqing Jian,Yanjuan Yao. 2023.Sustainable Governance of Drinking Water Conservation Areas Based on Adaptive Thresholds. Journal of Environmental Management. (0301-4797), 351, p. 119605.
8. 简钰清,戴钰欣,黄志彬,詹昂铄,李贺诚,王志芳*.广东省汕头市生态修复关键点识别与差异化规划[J].应用生态学报,2023,34(10):2730-2738.DOI:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202310.024.
Yuqing Jian, Yuxin Dai, Zhibin Huang, Angshuo Zhan, Hecheng Li, Zhifang Wang*. Identification of key points and differentiation planning strategies of Shantou, Guangdong, China. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology,2023,34(10):2730-2738. DOI:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202310.024.
9. 王志芳,李贺诚,简钰清,白竹惠,王玥心*,王小兵. 2023.问题优先级判别：生态保护修复中的核心生态智慧之一[J].中国园林39(10):56-61. DOI: 10.19775/j.cla.2023.10.0056
Zhifang Wang, Hecheng Li, Yuqing Jian, Zhuhui Bai, Yuexin Wang*, Xiaobing Wang. 2023. Determining the Priority of Ecological Issues——One of the Core Ecological Wisdoms of Ecological Restoration. Chinese landscape Architecture. 39(10):56-61. DOI: 10.19775/j.cla.2023.10.0056
10. Qianzi Jiang, Zhifang Wang*, Kongjian Yu, Yuehan Dou, Hongpeng Fu, Xueyuan Liang. 2023. The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China. Ecosystem Services. 60,101521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101521
11. 简钰清, 徐琨璟, 王志芳†, 黄志彬, 叶涛, 姜天姿, 程可欣. 2023. 生态系统游憩服务研究综述及未来展望[J]. 北京大学学报自然科学版59(5): 884-896.DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2023.038
Yuqing JIAN, Kunjing XU, Zhifang Wang *, Zhibin HUANG, Tao YE, Tianzi JIANG, Kexin CHENG. Recreational Ecosystem Services: Progress and Prospect. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 59(5): 884-896. DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2023.038
12. Zhifang Wang, Yuqing Jian*, Zhibin Huang, Salman Qureshi, Kexin Cheng, Zhuhui Bai and Qingwen Zhang. Transforming Research on Recreational Ecosystem Services into Applications and Governance. Land 2023, 12(2), 509; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020509
13. Wenjie Fan, Yunzu Tao, Zhifang Wang, Angshuo Zhan.2023. Dynamic analysis of ecological risk in a water conservation area: A case study in China. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 9(3)DOI: 10.34133/ehs.0003
14. Salman Qureshi, M.Tarashkar, Mansour Matloobi, Zhifang Wang, Akbar Rahimi. Understanding the dynamics of urban horticulture by socially-oriented practices and populace perception: Seeking future outlook through a comprehensive review. Land Use Policy,2022,122(6):106398. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106398
15. Peihao Tong, Hongxi Yin *, Zhifang Wang, Ian Trivers. Combining Stormwater Management and Park Services to Mitigate Climate Change and Improve Human Well-being: A Case Study of Sponge City Parks in Shanghai. Land, 2022, 11(9):1589. DOI: 10.3390/land11091589
16. Xinyuan Zhang, Hecheng Li, Yuqing Jian, Zhifang Wang*. Vernacular or modern: Transitional preferences of residents living in varied stages of urbanisation regarding rural landscape features. Journal of Rural Studies 2022. 95(3):95-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.07.011
17. 郑昌辉,云翃,王志芳*,魏丹.基于多利益主体协同博弈的乡村振兴模式——以河北宽城柏木塘村旅游共建为例[J].装饰, 2022(04): 1925.DOI:10.16272/j.cnki.cn11-1392/j.2022.04.026.
Changhui Zheng, Hong Yun, Zhifang Wang*, Dan Wei. Rural Revitalization Model Based on Multi-stakeholder Cooperative Game:Taking Baimutang Village,Kuancheng County Town,Hebei as an Example. Art & Design. 2022(04): 1925. DOI: 10.16272/j.cnki.cn11-1392/j.2022.04.026.
18. Zhifang Wang, Hongpeng Fu, Yuqing Jian, Salman Qureshi, Hua Jie, Lu Wang. 2022. On the comparative use of social media data and survey data in prioritizing ecosystem services for cost-effective governance. Ecosystem Service, 56, 101446.
19. Zhifang Wang, Hua Jie, Hongpeng Fu, Lu Wang, Hezhishi Jiang, Lu Ding, Yingjie Chen. 2022. A social-media-based improvement index for urban renewal. Ecological Indicator, 137, 108775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108775
20. 王志芳,简钰清,黄志彬,付宏鹏. 基于自然解决方案的研究视角综述及中国应用启示[J].风景园林, 2022, 29(6):12-19.
Zhifang Wang, Yuqing Jian, Zhibin Huang, Hongpeng Fu. A Review of Natural-based Solutions Research Perspective and Its Implications in China. Landscape Architecture. 2022;29(6):12–19. DOI: 10.14085/j.fjyl.2022.06.0012.08
21. Yaojin Zhou, Yao Shen, Xuexi Yang, Zhifang Wang, Liyan Xu. 2021. Where to Revitalize, and How? A Rural Typology Zoning for China. Land, 10, 1336. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/land10121336
22. Zhifang Wang*, Yinglu Miu, Min Xu, Zhongwei Zhu, Salman Qureshi, Qing Chang. 2021. Revealing the differences of urban parks’ services to human wellbeing based upon social media data. Urban Forestry and Greening 63:127233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127233
23. YangYang, Zhifang Wang, Guangsi Lin.2021.Performance Assessment Indicators for Comparing Recreational Services of Urban Parks. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 3337. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073337
24. Zhifang Wang, Zhongwei Zhu, Min Xu, Salman Qureshi. 2021. Fine-grained assessment of regional green-space satisfaction using content analysis of social media and machine learning. Science of the Total Environment, 776:145908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145908
25. Zhifang Wang*, Liyun Huang, Min Xu, Sirui Wang. 2021. Using schematic planning as a bridging procedure to mediate science-practice gaps of NBS in China: Case study of the Jialing River in Wusheng County, Sichuan Province. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01445-2
26. Zhifang Wang*, Min Xu, Haowen Lin, Salman Qureshi, Yujing Ma. 2021. Understanding the dynamics and factors affecting cultural ecosystem services during urbanization through spatial pattern analysis and a mixed-methods approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123422
27. 王志芳,康佳,徐敏,林广思. 北京公园用户类型刻画[J].风景园林, 2021, 28(9),96-102. DOI: 10.14085/j.fjyl.2021.09.0096.07
Zhifang Wang*, Jia Kang, Min Xu, Guangsi Lin. Characterizing Urban Park User Groups. Landscape Architecture. 2021, 28(9),96-102. DOI: 10.14085/j.fjyl.2021.09.0096.07
28. 付宏鹏,王志芳*,揭华,王璐.城市公园用户的情绪特征及影响因子研究——以华南植物园和越秀公园为例[J].北京大学学报(自然科学版),2021,57(06):1108-1120. DOI:10.13209/j.0479-8023.2021.092.
Zhifang Wang*, Hongpeng Fu. Emotional Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Park Users: A Case Study of South China Botanical Garden and Yuexiu Park. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis,2021,57(06):1108-1120. DOI: 10.13209/j.0479-8023.2021.092.
29. Hui Wen, Jiquan Chen, Zhifang Wang*.2020. Disproportioned performances of protected areas in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. Sustainability. 12(6404) https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166404
30. Zhifang Wang*, Dan Li, Hongji Chen, Tao Luo. 2020. Multifaceted influences of urbanization on sense of place in the rural-urban fringes of China: growing, dissolving and transitioning. Journal of Urban Development and Management 146(1):04019026 DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000540
BOOKS IN CHINESE
1. Zhifang Wang. 2025. Deputy Editor. Peng Yao, Dayu Zhang, Dongjiang Yang, ed. Carbon Neutrality Oriented Urban Green Space Planning and Design. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House. Curriculum for Land Ecosystem Restoration and Carbon Sequestration Technologies, and Education Ministry's Strategic Emerging Fields Textbooks for Higher Education in the 14th Five-Year Plan.
2. Zhifang Wang. 2022. Design Research Methods for Landscape Architecture. Chinese Architecture and Building Press. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "13th Five-Year Plan" textbook for civil engineering disciplines, and the recommended textbook for landscape architecture (landscape architecture) in colleges and universities.
3. Zhifang Wang. 2019. Chapter 4, Landscape and Design for Leisure Agriculture. Zaihong Tan, ed. Introduction to Leisure Agriculture. Beijing: China Agricultural Press. National higher vocational education "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" teaching materials, leisure agriculture series.
4. Zhifang Wang. 2016. Hyperscape: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in China. Chinese Architecture and Building Press.
5. Kongjian Yu, Zhifang Wang, Peng Sun. 2016. People Place. By Clare Cooper Marcus, Carolyn Francis. From English to Chinese, Chinese Architecture and Building Press.
6. Kongjian Yu, Zhifang Wang, Peng Sun.2016. Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Site Planning and Design - 3rd ed. By John Ormsbee Simonds, From English to Chinese, Chinese Architecture and Building Press.
PATENTS
1. Zhifang Wang, Zhenyu Yuan, Yaojin Zhou. A water depth measurement device. Utility model patent. Patent No.: ZL2019 2 0895808.9
2. Zhifang Wang. Semantic Analysis Software for Landscape Evaluation. Computer Software Copyright.
3. Zhifang Wang, Yinglu Miu, Zhongwei Zhu, Yaojin Zhou, Sirui Wang. A Method for Identifying Park Scenic Services. Patent No.: CN202010048814.8.2020-1-16, China
4. Zhifang Wang, Zhongwei Zhu, Yinglu Miu, Yaojin Zhou, Sirui Wang. A machine learning-based method for sentiment scoring of park text reviews. Patent No.: CN201911368151.1.2019-12-26, China
5. Zhifang Wang, Yaojin Zhou, Yinglu Miu, Sirui Wang, Zhongwei Zhu. A Method for Comprehensive Management Unit Division of Landscapes. Patent No.: CN202010006230.4.2020-1-3, China
6. Zhifang Wang, Sirui Wang, Yinglu Miu, Yaojin Zhou, Zhongwei Zhu. Evaluation Method for Social and Cultural Services Based on Supply and Demand Matching Ecosystem. Patent No.: CN202010011461.4.2020-1-6, China
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023 Excellent instructor of the national division of the National Digital Art Design Competition
2021 The first batch of university-level ideological and political demonstration courses of Peking University
2019 Excellent instructor of rural revitalization design in Zaozhuang City
2015 First Prize in Micro-course Contest of Beijing
2015 Merit Prize in Micro-course Contest of China
Research-oriented Project
Principal Investigator for two General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2023-2026 PI. Research on the value formation mechanism of recreation services in urban green space system based on multi-source data. Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant No. 42271300.
2019-2022.PI. Spatial differentiation and driving mechanism of social emotional perception in urban complex system. Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant No. 41871153.
Provincial/Ministerial and International Research Projects
2025-2025 Global Oregon Faculty Collaboration Fund. University of Oregon. 6,500 dollars.
2022-2023.Co-PI. Remote sensing project for accurate classification and control of typical lake-reservoir water sources. Funded by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Center for Satellite Application on Ecology and Environment.
2020-2022.Co-PI. Typologies of Drinking-water Conservation Areas for Appropriate Governance in the Yangtze Rver Delta. Funded by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Center for Satellite Application on Ecology and Environment.
2020-2022.The EdiCitNet project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 776665. PI.
2019-2020.Co-PI. Ecological security assessment and control strategy of water sources. Funded by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment Center for Satellite Application on Ecology and Environment.
2019-2019.PI. Study on guidelines for comprehensive land reclamation and ecological conservation and restoration. Funded by Ministry of Natural Resources Land Management Center.
2018-2019.Co-PI. Study on rural development and cultural landscape protection in Yangtze River Economic Belt. Funded by Ministry of Land and Resources Land Management Center.
Practice-oriented Project
With an extensive track record of leading over 20 practical projects, my key engagements in the past five years are listed below.
2025-2026 PI. Multimodal Big Data Analysis of Visitor Opinions and Needs in Beijing Parks.
2023-2024 PI. Hebei Province ecological protection red line within the ecological protection of the red line of special research and technical cooperation, Hebei Province.
2023-2024 PI. Landscape Protection and Development Theme for the Follow-up Environmental Impact Assessment of the Middle Reach Jinsha River Hydropower Planning Project.
2023-2024 PI. Landscape planning guidelines and node design based on nature solutions on the island of Great Black Mountain.
2022-2023 PI. Preliminary analysis of Shantou land and space ecological restoration planning, Guangdong Province.
2022-2022 PI. Research on the development path of "dual carbon" target space implementation in Xining City. Qinghai Province.
2021-2022 PI. Research on the urban construction of green valley in Xining Plateau，Qinghai Province.
Internal Funding from Peking University
2025-2027 PI. Case Study Development for Master of Landscape Architecture.
2022-2023 PI. Construction of digital textbooks at Peking University
2019-2020 Core Theories and Research Methods of Landscape Architecture.
2018-2019 PI. Case Study Development for Master of Landscape Architecture.
Expert Committees
1. 2024-now
Secretary-General of the Working Committee on Climate Change of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture
2. 2023-now
Vice Chairman of the Ecological Landscape and Landscape Architecture Committee of China Engineering Construction Standardization Association
3. 2021- now
The Graduate Education Committee of Landscape Architecture
4. 2023- now
Board Member of the Landscape Architecture Branch, the Architectural Society of China
5. 2023- now
Board Member of the Landscape Ecology Branch, Ecological Society of China
6. 2017- now
Committee Member of the Theory and History Committee, Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture
7. 2020- now
Committee Member of the Law and Social Science Degree Sub-committee of Peking University
8. 2018- now
Committee Member of the Professional Master Degree of Peking University
9. 2016- now
Committee Member of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture Educators
10. 2013- now
Committee Member for the Committee of ecological Cities in Chinese Society for Urban Studies
Editorial Board Memberships
1. 2022- now Springer: Ecosystem Services - Landscape and Spatial Planning Perspectives book series.
2. 2022- now Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Architecture Frontiers
3. 2021- now Editorial board member and Guess Editor, Land (SCI)
4. 2021- now Review Editor, Frontiers in Environmental Science - Land Use Dynamics (SCI)
5. 2020- now Editorial board member, Landscape and Urban Planning (SCI/SSCI)
6. 2021- now Member of the Youth Editorial Board, the journal of Landscape Architecture Academic Journal
7. 2023- now Member of the Youth Editorial Board, the journal of Landscape Architecture
8. 2020- now Guest editor for the journal of City Planning Review
9. 2018- now Contributing editor for the journal of Chinese Landscape Architecture
Peer Review
1. Landscape and Urban Planning
2. Landscape Ecology
3. Journal of Cleaner Production
4. Land Use Policy
5. Urban Forestry and Greening
6. Journal of Urban Planning and Development
7. Science of the Total Environment
8. Socio-Ecological Practice Research
9. Ambio
10. Landscape Research
11. Ecosystem Services
12. Ocean and Coastal Management
13. Urban Planning and Design Research
14. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
15. Urban Ecosystems
16. Sustainability
17. Frontiers in Environment Science
18. Land
19. Ecological Indicator
20. Environmental Research
21. Journal of Environmental Management
22. Landscape Architecture Frontiers
23. Acta Ecologica Sinica
24. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis
25. Chinese Landscape Architecture
26. Landscape Architecture
27. Landscape Architecture Academic Journal
28. City Planning Review
29. Urban Planning International
30. Journal of Tianjin University
