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Dr. Tzen-ying Ling
Tamkang University

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Tzen-Ying is a licensed architect who combines her position as the leader of the CReS Lab and Associate Professor in Resilience Thinking at Tamkang University. She practiced in New York after graduating from Columbia University; after moving to Taiwan, Tzen-Ying worked with the central government and held position as the client rep in various large-scale development projects. Following this she founded her practice AJL which explored and designed small to large scale projects. She has been invited as a jury critic, lecturer and tutor in numerous institutions. Tzen-Ying is currently based in Taipei where her practice and research received several design awards and accolades. Her work is focused on the resilience integration in the design process. She is best known for projects, 921 memorial and “Green Elf” series; she is currently developing an interdisciplinary model of “Living lab” modular system in Taiwan.

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Published: 10 January 2021 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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It is known that globalization has led first- and second-tier cities’ urban restructuring trajectories, excreted pressures, and caused tremendous socioeconomic volatility. This resulted in marginalized communities in dire of social empowerment, employment structure variance, and industry sectoral adjustment. Moreover, recent successive climate and health crisis unfolded and affirmed the state of our urban incompetence to sustain socioeconomic resilience or otherwise; lacking swift responses in providing critical management and services, cites are facing multifaceted challenges. Urban well-being and resilience are at stake. Although the environmental and health dimensional effects are apparent, this study ascertains that the transept multi-scalar analysis within the urban socioeconomic structure is crucial in sustaining core resilience to foster health and well-being of the community. As an integral part of the investigation, the revised DPSIR assessment framework is applied to evaluate the sectoral shift; spatial structure disarray and urban codependence degree are examined within the Taipei metropolitan area (TMA), a medium size but densely populated metropolitan area in Taiwan. The place-based DPSIR analysis ascertained the states and impacts in TMA: (1) A population decline speeded the restructuring of the urban core, while the impact of demographic aging and shrinkage rate mandates proper management and planning responses to the decline process; (2) the socioeconomic state effect is determined but does not critically affect the periphery zone, while an uneven demographic shift within the urban core necessitates dynamic adjustment responses to appropriately provide intergenerational services; (3) the uneven sector redistribution stimulated the core’s spatial and structural inter-dependency with peripheral zones, requiring governance with tighter cross-administration cooperation among respective public sectors; and (4) facing the sector/temporal and demographic pressure, urban cohesiveness in the TMA is greatly affected, which in turn disrupts the resilience pathway toward a cohesion. The study ascertained that the revised DPSIR framework could provide cities facing pressing socioeconomic drivers with effective analysis to allocate pressures, states, and impacts and formulate the necessary responses. To assure the socioeconomic resilience and urban cohesiveness, planning policy should carefully monitor and evaluate socio-demographic and sector redistribution factors to promote the urban resilience.

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Tzen-Ying Ling. Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan area. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2021, 23, 13016 -13041.

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Tzen-Ying Ling. Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan area. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2021; 23 (9):13016-13041.

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Tzen-Ying Ling. 2021. "Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan area." Environment, Development and Sustainability 23, no. 9: 13016-13041.

Journal article
Published: 30 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Urbanization and climate change have generated ever-increased pressure to the ecosystem, bringing critical resilience challenges to densely congested cities. The resulted displaced and encroached habitat in need of recuperation demands a comprehensive overhaul to the customary urban planning practices; further, the deteriorating public health state of urban residents calls for strategies in dealing with green deprivation and gentrification issues. Frequently, urban greening strategies are envisaged at a macro-scale on a dedicated horizontal track of land, rendering local implementation in a densely built neighborhood a challenged undertaking. Communities lacking green and land resources could promote vertical greening to enable and enhance social and psychological well-being. This study ascertains that vertical greenery closest to the inhabitants could be allocated on a building facade. It can contribute to a more sustainable ecology. The article presents the systemic design approach to urban vertical greening thinking and its role in well-being provision. We propose an interdisciplinary multicriteria contextual-based scalable framework to assess vertical green infrastructure; the prototype requires an innovative approach to balance architecture, human needs, and the local environment. The vertical greening application provides an alternative paradigm in the design implementation for urban green. We proposed the locality and place to be incorporated into the vertical greening design framework. The research concludes the three-tiered consideration framework resulted: (1) in line with the human-habitat ecosystem, the local environment-social dimension is explored; (2) the well-being criteria encourage the design practice’s support for localized driven community vitality; (3) the design paradigm requires integration with the increasing demand for green space as well as taking into account the impact of severe climate; and (4) the framework should achieve the strengthening of health and well-being of the community.

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Tzen-Ying Ling; Wei-Kai Hung; Chun-Tsu Lin; Michael Lu. Dealing with Green Gentrification and Vertical Green-Related Urban Well-Being: A Contextual-Based Design Framework. Sustainability 2020, 12, 20 .

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Tzen-Ying Ling, Wei-Kai Hung, Chun-Tsu Lin, Michael Lu. Dealing with Green Gentrification and Vertical Green-Related Urban Well-Being: A Contextual-Based Design Framework. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):20.

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Tzen-Ying Ling; Wei-Kai Hung; Chun-Tsu Lin; Michael Lu. 2020. "Dealing with Green Gentrification and Vertical Green-Related Urban Well-Being: A Contextual-Based Design Framework." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 20.

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Published: 01 May 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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The approach for urban coherence requires a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of available adaptive practice toward resilience and sustainability in the urban centers. We ascertain that this calls for swift restorative actions to amend the ecology damages with the incorporation of ‘greening’ elements as available methods of environmentally sensitive, innovative practices in bridging the fields of ecology, horticulture, architecture and environmental tools to the natural restoration of the urban damages, hence the purpose of this study. The theoretical frameworks, including sustainability, resilience, adaptive practice, may be helpful when considering urban resilience. We suggest that all of the considerations should cooperate through the practical implementation. Given this, design consideration to vertical greening for urban sustainability may be categorized as those: (1) the enhancement with vertical greening in urban setting, whether in the interior or exterior environment, can aid in the regenerative role toward the restoration of the urban ecological landscape; (2) the recent progress on smart building technology further enhanced the management for comfort, biodiversity and well-being benefits of vertical greening; (3) ideas and practices permutations of the systemic design possibilities for vertical greening contribute to the resilience of the urban core; (4) the outcome focuses on the design thinking process into the practice of vertical greening aimed for sustainable conscious architecture, advantageous on their potential for human's well-being and health, at the same time, being feasible for amelioration of our urban microclimate condition, opportunity and threats; together, they contribute toward the sustainability for the future of urbanity.

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Tzen-Ying Ling; Yi-Chang Chiang. Well-being, health and urban coherence-advancing vertical greening approach toward resilience: A design practice consideration. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 182, 187 -197.

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Tzen-Ying Ling, Yi-Chang Chiang. Well-being, health and urban coherence-advancing vertical greening approach toward resilience: A design practice consideration. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 182 ():187-197.

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Tzen-Ying Ling; Yi-Chang Chiang. 2018. "Well-being, health and urban coherence-advancing vertical greening approach toward resilience: A design practice consideration." Journal of Cleaner Production 182, no. : 187-197.

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Published: 01 March 2018 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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Tzen-Ying Ling; Yi-Chang Chiang. Strengthening the resilience of urban retailers towards flood risks - A case study in the riverbank region of Kaohsiung City. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2018, 27, 541 -555.

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Tzen-Ying Ling, Yi-Chang Chiang. Strengthening the resilience of urban retailers towards flood risks - A case study in the riverbank region of Kaohsiung City. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2018; 27 ():541-555.

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Tzen-Ying Ling; Yi-Chang Chiang. 2018. "Strengthening the resilience of urban retailers towards flood risks - A case study in the riverbank region of Kaohsiung City." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 27, no. : 541-555.

Journal article
Published: 17 September 2017 in Sustainability
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With predictions of extreme precipitation and sea-level rise under climate change that may induce morphological changes of estuaries, increased estuarine flood risk needs to be considered. The aim of this case study was to contemplate sustainability from the perspective of flood resilience that focuses on environmental problems and solutions. The study provided insights into retailers’ resilience thinking regarding the flood-prone Shetzu Peninsula in Taipei City. It is of concern that the retailers strategically identified potential flood risks and have developed adaptive knowledge, skills, and networks. The Location Quotient (LQ) analysis was conducted to verify that the retail sector of Shetzu Peninsula was considered a basic industry. Further assessments, an interactive visualization model and a consumption intensity map, were provided as supportive data. Based on the results, semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore 15 key retailers’ resilience thinking on how to adapt to floods in terms of risk communication under climate change. This approach is vital to meet the adaptation challenge in the Shetzu Peninsula. As a result, the study indicated that retailers have strategically identified potential weather-related risks and have implemented adaptation plans for each store functions. The study discussed that, in the face of climate change, maladaptation, interactive visualization models for communicating flood risks, and place attachment are key issues to increase flood resilience under climate change. The introduction of adaptation interventions in terms of urban resilience as a part of a comprehensive strategy helps to manage the impacts of climate change towards urban sustainability.

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Yi-Chang Chiang; Tzen-Ying Ling. Exploring Flood Resilience Thinking in the Retail Sector under Climate Change: A Case Study of an Estuarine Region of Taipei City. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1650 .

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Yi-Chang Chiang, Tzen-Ying Ling. Exploring Flood Resilience Thinking in the Retail Sector under Climate Change: A Case Study of an Estuarine Region of Taipei City. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (9):1650.

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Yi-Chang Chiang; Tzen-Ying Ling. 2017. "Exploring Flood Resilience Thinking in the Retail Sector under Climate Change: A Case Study of an Estuarine Region of Taipei City." Sustainability 9, no. 9: 1650.

Conference paper
Published: 15 June 2015 in Proceedings of 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)
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The hybridization or cross breeding of the regional spatial transformation creates an urban frontier that expresses the tectonic shifts focusing on urban activities change and population migration. The scalar shift that spans across the regional scale brings what lacks within the inter-linkage of "city" and "world" and look beyond the territorial division at large. In Taiwan, the phenomenon of geographic concentration of specific sector and economic activity in the metropolitan areas imply the underlying characteristic expounded beneath that can be utilized. Size and growth rate of urbanization thru the population concentration highlights the presence of an intense redistribution, creating a frontier land in need of inter liking of a sort. Other spatial paradigms such as networks or nodes may provide unconventional texture and visualizations of this mega-region, which we can develop into a scalable set of strategies that allocate more localized considered operations to emerge. Using industry gross national product data, this paper presents empirical evidence on the relative spatial specialization and linkage within Taipei metropolitan and the urban system. The econometric results indicate that high return in certain two digit service industries cluster around a monocentric core in the north, a fact so familiar to Taipei. The negative effects of isolation are magnified in locations with higher potential in other uses. The low return of other activities responds primarily to local demand displaying no significant spatial variation. The empirical results highlight the need for improved connectivity between the northern and other regions in Taiwan and the need to address two major issues--the need re-examine the management policy for land and industry development and the need to provide the suitable public facilities and services for the changing population structure. Within this realm, we inquire the urban-landscape hybrids that will behave as a protector to preserve the ecologies and natural resources of the frontier as well as furthering the inter-linkage of the urban landscape. As this may become an ordering principle for a new economy, one must accept the new mechanism for organizing the patterns of human settlement as well as the economies of production and distribution. This paper contends the Taiwan experience provides a model for other developing cities and provides a reference in understanding the parameters and management policies.

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Tzen-Ying Jenny Ling. Toward an Urban Frontier and the Inter-Linkage. Proceedings of 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) 2015, 1 .

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Tzen-Ying Jenny Ling. Toward an Urban Frontier and the Inter-Linkage. Proceedings of 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU). 2015; ():1.

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Tzen-Ying Jenny Ling. 2015. "Toward an Urban Frontier and the Inter-Linkage." Proceedings of 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) , no. : 1.