Zhenjiang Shen's research interests include policy-making support systems for planning and design using GIS & VR technology. He is serving as commissioner of Information Technology Education of Architectural Institute of Japan, and is a member of Scientific Committee of City Planning Institute of Japan. Dr. Shen also served as vice director, Urban Big data Commission, Chinese Society of Urban Studies. He is a member of Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of International Cartographic Association (ICA), and works as a joint member of Fudan University and PhD Instructor in Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Shen is editor-in-chief of IRSPSD International, managing editor of IJSSS and IJSSoc, and is General Director of International Community on Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development.

Miayoyi Li's research interests include spatial/urban planning, urban big data analysis, Geospatial analysis & Geo-simulations. He served as a researcher in the Information Center of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning & Design Institute (THUPDI), which is affiliated with the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University.

Includes the most up-to-date practices and research using big data in the field of city and regional planning for the smart city

Increases the understanding of spatial-temporal analysis of human mobility and transportation, especially relevant to structures affected by the rapid urbanization process in China

Explains how big data changes the thinking of planners and researchers in urban planning practice

The first book to introduce big data-based research planning practices in China to planners, researchers and students

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Chapter 1: Overview: Big Data Support for Urban Planning and Management in China.- Part 1: Social Big Data for Exploring Human Behaviors and Urban Structure.- Chapter 2: Early Warning of Human Crowds Based on Query Data from Baidu Map: A Lesson from Shanghai Stampede.- Chapter 3: Research on Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Residents' Emotions Based on Sina Weibo Big Data: A Case Study of Nanjing.- Chapter 4: Measuring by Movements: Hierarchical Clustering of Cities in China Based on Aggregated Massive Positioning Data.- Chapter 5: Assessment of Regional Economic Integration Based on Relational Data: The Case of the Yangtze River Delta.- Chapter 6: The Recognition of CAZ in Shanghai Based on Evaluated POI.- Chapter 7: The Fear of Ebola: A Tale of Two Cities in China.- Part 2: POI for Exploring Urban Space Recognition.- Chapter 8: Identifying and Evaluating Urban Centers for the Whole China Using Open Data.- Chapter 9: Geographic Big Data's Applications in Retailing Business Market.- Chapter 10: Redefinition the Social Space Based on Social Atlas Analysis: A Case Study of Dongguan, China.- Chapter 11: The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Innovative Function of Science and Technology of Beijing Based on the Analysis of Enterprise Data.- Part 3: Mobile Device Data for Integrating Land Use and Transportation Planning.- Chapter 12: Spatial Development Analysis of the Southern Area of Beijing Based on Multi-Source Data.- Chapter 13: Study on Population Dynamics and Mobility of Shanghai Based on Cell Phone Signaling Data.- Chapter 14: The Application of Big Data in the Study of Urban Spatial Structure.- Chapter 15: Application of Cellular Data in Traffic Planning.- Chapter16: Extract the Spatial-temporal Distribution of Transit Trips from Smart Card Transaction Data: A Comparison between Shanghai and Singapore.- Part 4: Cyber Infrastructure for Urban Management.- Chapter 17: Traffic Big Data and Its Application in Road Traffic Performance Evaluation-Illustrated bythe Case of Shenzhen.- Chapter 18: Understanding Job-Housing Relationship from Cell Phone Data Based on Hadoop.- Chapter 19: Towards Mobility Turn in Urban Planning: Smart Travel Planning Based on Space-Time Behavior in Beijing, China.- Chapter 20: Observing and Quantifying Vitality of Dashilanr: An Automatic Human Activity Data Collection Experiment.- Chapter 21: Urban wind path planning based on meteorological and remote sensing data and GIS based ventilation analysis.- Chapter 22: A Synthesized Urban Science in the Context of Big Data and Cyber infrastructure.