John Zacharias

加拿大蒙特利尔大学规划系博士，国际著名城市规划学者，2012年受聘于北京大学，现任北京大学建筑与景观设计学院讲席教授，同时创建北京大学城市过程模拟与应用实验室。研究领域涉及城市发展策略、城市交通、地下空间发展以及个体行为规律等方面，在国际期刊（SCI、SSCI）发表学术论文53篇，发表会议及其它论文57篇，出版著作4部，以及8本书籍的章节撰写。

John Zacharias trained as an urban planner and urban designer at the University of British Columbia. He then joined the City of Vancouver's planning team as urban designer, helping prepare plans for the redevelopment of inner city areas at that time in industrial use. These experiences prepared him for his career interest in the relationships between human behavior and the planned environment. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Montreal focused on the Central Business District and included several chapters on interactions between people and land use, a theme he picked up in the 2015 book on The Chinese CBD. These interests in how people and activities adapt to planned environments and transport systems have led to research in a variety of settings, from shopping environments to local communities and to cities as a whole. In a fast-changing urban world with increasing choices of how we move around and use space, he believes it is important to construct a new approach to urban planning and urban design based on humanistic principles, that is, with people as the driving force. As a consequence, he rejects the application of traditional principles in planning and purely top-down policy implementation, in favour of a research-based approach to designing the environment. Some of his published research has investigated methods for developing a research-based practice. Other research has focused in particular on human environments, and on non-motorized transport systems within the larger mobility system of cities. He has published 53 articles in the leading SCI and SSCI journals, 45 of which as first author, 4 refereed books, 8 book chapters, as well as 57 conference and non-SCI journal papers.