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Prof. Dr. Zhenjiang Shen
Kanazawa University

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Journal article
Published: 02 July 2021 in Automation in Construction
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Designing with the surrounding environment has been consistently encouraged in architectural design and urban planning since the modernist movement. However, on-site design work is challenging for designers, because the current design tools can hardly merge virtual three-dimensional (3D) models with real surrounding environments for visualization and interaction. To address this challenge, we designed and developed a mixed reality (MR) tool called HoloDesigner. In this paper, we describe the development process and core components of HoloDesigner. Through an on-site design application at a community park, we demonstrated its main workflow and functionalities. The results proved that HoloDesigner could successfully render on-site 3D visualization as well as real-time interactions to control 3D models in the real surrounding environment. This research offers new insights on supporting on-site design work with MR technologies and contributes to overcoming the limitations of current MR tools for on-site visualization and interaction.

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Yuze Dan; Zhenjiang Shen; Jianqiang Xiao; Yiyun Zhu; Ling Huang; Jun Zhou. HoloDesigner: A mixed reality tool for on-site design. Automation in Construction 2021, 129, 103808 .

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Yuze Dan, Zhenjiang Shen, Jianqiang Xiao, Yiyun Zhu, Ling Huang, Jun Zhou. HoloDesigner: A mixed reality tool for on-site design. Automation in Construction. 2021; 129 ():103808.

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Yuze Dan; Zhenjiang Shen; Jianqiang Xiao; Yiyun Zhu; Ling Huang; Jun Zhou. 2021. "HoloDesigner: A mixed reality tool for on-site design." Automation in Construction 129, no. : 103808.

Chapter
Published: 30 May 2021 in Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches
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In ancient China, the Kaogong Ji defined traditional Chinese urban form based on wooden building technology and adherence to traditional Chinese culture. Due to the might of western armies and their occupation of oriental countries in the 1800s, there was a need for serious social transformation. Furthermore, as Western culture seeped its way into the lives of the Chinese populace, so did Western theory on urban planning. Thus, western planning systems were introduced into Chinese society. However, as has always been the case throughout the long history of China, historical wisdom has been preserved throughout all sorts of modern technological miracles and social change. Emerging Chinese scholars will be discussing how Chinese urban planning and management has changed Chinese urban form throughout this book. For the contemporary Chinese city, planners learn from western planning system and apply planning theory to planning practices. The terms related to planning and design theory are hotly debated among Chinese planners, the most widely accepted being modern Western thinking, bound by traditional oriental values, through the lens of their personal opinions on Chinese urban form.

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Zhenjiang Shen. Overview from Historical Wisdom to Modern Miracles: Experience from Chinese Urban Planning and Practices. Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches 2021, 1 -15.

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Zhenjiang Shen. Overview from Historical Wisdom to Modern Miracles: Experience from Chinese Urban Planning and Practices. Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches. 2021; ():1-15.

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Zhenjiang Shen. 2021. "Overview from Historical Wisdom to Modern Miracles: Experience from Chinese Urban Planning and Practices." Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches , no. : 1-15.

Research article
Published: 11 April 2021 in International Journal of Architectural Heritage
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Min-Zhe bridge in Fu-Jian and Zhe-Jiang Provinces of China is a unique type of woven wooden arch bridge with important cultural heritage values in both tangible and intangible fields. Reconstruction (including in-situ rebuilding and relocation) is a traditional approach to extend the bridge’s lifespan, which has been passed on and lasts till now. Today’s reconstruction practice and its legitimation on intervening in the Min-Zhe bridge as both tangible and intangible heritage is discussed in this paper under the modern conservation context. Firstly, the reconstruction activities since its ‘discovery’ in 1980 are investigated through general information and case study. Then, the legitimation issues are discussed according to the criteria of the authenticity text for World Heritage bridges and the criteria of continuity for living heritage. Finally, suggestions on protecting the continuity of the building tradition and ensuring the reliability of the continuous production in the future are proposed.

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Shujie Chen; Yan Yang; Zhenjiang Shen; Ahad Javanmardi. Reconstruction of Min-Zhe Wooden Arch Bridges and Its Legitimation as Tangible and Intangible Heritage. International Journal of Architectural Heritage 2021, 1 -18.

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Shujie Chen, Yan Yang, Zhenjiang Shen, Ahad Javanmardi. Reconstruction of Min-Zhe Wooden Arch Bridges and Its Legitimation as Tangible and Intangible Heritage. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 2021; ():1-18.

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Shujie Chen; Yan Yang; Zhenjiang Shen; Ahad Javanmardi. 2021. "Reconstruction of Min-Zhe Wooden Arch Bridges and Its Legitimation as Tangible and Intangible Heritage." International Journal of Architectural Heritage , no. : 1-18.

Journal article
Published: 30 March 2021 in Applied Sciences
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In recent years, designing in existing environments has been consistently emphasized in community planning. However, practicing such on-site design is not easy for designers, because the current technical conditions do not allow virtual design objects into real environments for 3D visualization and interaction. Thus, designers’ intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions are hardly supported. This paper explores the possibilities of using mixed reality (MR) technology to improve designers’ on-site design experiences in community planning. For this, we introduced an MR design support system (MR-DSS) for the interactive on-site 3D visualization of virtual design objects. With the MR-DSS, we performed a design experiment with sixteen participants in a typical on-site design scene of community planning. The results showed that the MR technology could provide designers with intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions, thus effectively improving their on-site design experiences.

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Yuze Dan; Zhenjiang Shen; Yiyun Zhu; Ling Huang. Using Mixed Reality (MR) to Improve On-Site Design Experience in Community Planning. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 3071 .

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Yuze Dan, Zhenjiang Shen, Yiyun Zhu, Ling Huang. Using Mixed Reality (MR) to Improve On-Site Design Experience in Community Planning. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (7):3071.

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Yuze Dan; Zhenjiang Shen; Yiyun Zhu; Ling Huang. 2021. "Using Mixed Reality (MR) to Improve On-Site Design Experience in Community Planning." Applied Sciences 11, no. 7: 3071.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2021 in Sustainability
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In disaster management, evacuation modeling is considered a useful visual tool to disaster managers for reviewing current evacuation strategies, estimating the ability of shelters to accommodate all evacuees, and developing evacuation route planning. Though there are several existing studies on evacuation modeling in the case of an earthquake, research that integrates road blockades into evacuation simulations is quite limited. From that viewpoint, this research aims to develop evacuation modeling with consideration of road blockades to simulate how residents move to evacuation centers (hereafter, shelters) through urban areas following an earthquake occurrence. The research also determines difficulties that residents may encounter under earthquake conditions, compared with normal conditions, corresponding to considering or not considering road blockades, respectively, such as having no access to shelters, taking longer routes instead of shortest routes, and so on. Debris from damaged buildings in an urban area is assumed as the main source of debris that would cause a road blockade. The model is applied to a case study of the Daitoku school district in Kanazawa city. According to simulated results, due to road blockades, occupants of many damaged buildings did not have access to shelters, and a lot of evacuees needed to move to shelters with longer routes instead of taking the shortest routes. Furthermore, the research results show the possibility of considering road blockades for improving current evacuation modeling and making evacuation simulations more realistic.

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen; Zhen-Jiang Shen; Minh-Hoang Truong; Kenichi Sugihara. Improvement of Evacuation Modeling by Considering Road Blockade in the Case of an Earthquake: A Case Study of Daitoku School District, Kanazawa City, Japan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2637 .

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen, Zhen-Jiang Shen, Minh-Hoang Truong, Kenichi Sugihara. Improvement of Evacuation Modeling by Considering Road Blockade in the Case of an Earthquake: A Case Study of Daitoku School District, Kanazawa City, Japan. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2637.

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen; Zhen-Jiang Shen; Minh-Hoang Truong; Kenichi Sugihara. 2021. "Improvement of Evacuation Modeling by Considering Road Blockade in the Case of an Earthquake: A Case Study of Daitoku School District, Kanazawa City, Japan." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2637.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Journal of Urban Planning and Development
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In this research, from a macro perspective, we studied the impact of urban development planning on population changes in central urban areas. Regional development plans have different aggregation modes and different development structures for different functional areas. This difference was evaluated as a different development model. Kanazawa was used as a case study area, and the corresponding development plan was determined by different development models. Set up three development modes of concentrated central urban area development mode, decentralized central urban area development mode, and maintenance-oriented central urban area development mode. Under the guidance of three different development modes, calculation and analysis are performed using genetic algorithms. The population recovery, the degree of land-use mix, and the degree of land-use specialization in the central urban area are three indicators. On this basis, a land-use planning support system has been developed.

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Yajing Zhang; Zhenjiang Shen; Bin Cui; Yuming Lin. Construction of Urban Planning Supporting System Using Genetic Algorithm Responding to Urban Decentralization: Case of Kanazawa City. Journal of Urban Planning and Development 2020, 146, 04020044 .

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Yajing Zhang, Zhenjiang Shen, Bin Cui, Yuming Lin. Construction of Urban Planning Supporting System Using Genetic Algorithm Responding to Urban Decentralization: Case of Kanazawa City. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 2020; 146 (4):04020044.

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Yajing Zhang; Zhenjiang Shen; Bin Cui; Yuming Lin. 2020. "Construction of Urban Planning Supporting System Using Genetic Algorithm Responding to Urban Decentralization: Case of Kanazawa City." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 146, no. 4: 04020044.

Project report
Published: 16 September 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Personal information is collected by different smart services and integrated into one big data database, in contemplation of the smart visiting service management on an isolated island. Thereby, the information about a certain person’s activities is possibly managed by one database, and smart services are conveniently provided for the users, at the same time protecting their personal information. In a case study on Huangguan Island, personal information was collected in an urban space by different smart service providers, for various business purposes. The personal information was collected on the isolated island not only via personal mobile devices, but also from smart facilities arranged by the building and transportation means. As opposed to the previous research reports on tourism information services for smart tourism using big data analysis and processing, we proposed a smart visiting service management system in order to integrate tourism services into an isolated island. After reviewing the proposed smart visiting service management system in the case study practice, the principles of personal information collection were defined in this work.

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Xiao Teng; Zhenjiang Shen. Design of a Smart Visiting Service Management System for Personal Information Collection in Order to Integrate Tourism Management into an Isolated Island. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 6442 .

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Xiao Teng, Zhenjiang Shen. Design of a Smart Visiting Service Management System for Personal Information Collection in Order to Integrate Tourism Management into an Isolated Island. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (18):6442.

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Xiao Teng; Zhenjiang Shen. 2020. "Design of a Smart Visiting Service Management System for Personal Information Collection in Order to Integrate Tourism Management into an Isolated Island." Applied Sciences 10, no. 18: 6442.

Journal article
Published: 18 June 2020 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Walking maintains an indisputable advantage as a simple transport mode over short distances. Various situations have shown that when staying in a walk-friendly built environment, people are more likely to walk and interact with their surroundings. Scholars have reported some evidence of the influence of neighbourhood environments on personal walking trips. Most existing studies of the correlation between the built environment and walking, however, have been conducted in the West and are cross-sectional, which leaves a gap in addressing the causality between built environments and walking under the intervention of regeneration measures. This study takes a historic district of a mid-sized city in China as the research area and reports the changes in the traditional residential district’s built environment caused by the implementation of urban regeneration. In this paper, we use physical and perceptual indicators to measure the walkability of the built environment. We identify the changed content of the built environment’s walkability and the change of residents’ walking behaviour through longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal methods. The conclusion shows that the implementation of a regeneration project of the historic district has greatly changed perceived walkability, which has significantly promoted residents’ recreational walking trips, especially among the population of middle-aged and elderly people in the district. The conclusion that the built environment’s change promotes recreational walking is contrary to the research performed in sprawling Western contexts such as in the US, and it provides a meaningful supplement for research on the topic in an Asian context.

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Fen Zeng; Zhenjiang Shen. Study on the Impact of Historic District Built Environment and Its Influence on Residents’ Walking Trips: A Case Study of Zhangzhou Ancient City’s Historic District. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 4367 .

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Fen Zeng, Zhenjiang Shen. Study on the Impact of Historic District Built Environment and Its Influence on Residents’ Walking Trips: A Case Study of Zhangzhou Ancient City’s Historic District. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (12):4367.

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Fen Zeng; Zhenjiang Shen. 2020. "Study on the Impact of Historic District Built Environment and Its Influence on Residents’ Walking Trips: A Case Study of Zhangzhou Ancient City’s Historic District." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 12: 4367.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2020 in Natural Hazards Review
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This research aims at developing a geographic information system (GIS)–based model for integrating risk estimation for residential building damage with risk estimation for shelter capacity by number of evacuees. The former aims at predicting the number of buildings damaged by an earthquake, while the latter refers to whether each evacuation center (henceforth: shelter) has sufficient accommodation for evacuees through a simulated evacuation following an earthquake. The evacuee number, which is predicted by reference to damaged buildings and building population, is used as input data for estimating risk in relation to shelter capacity. That is, the output of risk estimation for residential building damage is an input for shelter capacity risk estimation. By making this integration, the proposed model can supply an integrated information flow for prediction, preparedness, and response in relation to potential earthquake disasters by offering, inter alia, predictions of seismic intensity, forecasts of building damage and evacuees, models of how residents move to evacuation shelters following earthquakes (evacuation simulations), and data on shelters with insufficient capacity (shelter capacity estimation). Moreover, this research also proposes a method for allocating residents to each building based on building floor area and the total population of each chome (or city district, a common administrative unit in Japan). The number of residents in each building depends on the building floor area and varies within each chome. This method of estimation differs from the average building population used in the literature, which assumes that the number of residents per building is constant throughout a chome. Furthermore, identifying the number of residents in each house or building makes it easier to predict the number of evacuees in each evacuation shelter through an evacuation simulation routing residents from their homes to the nearest shelters. The number of evacuees per shelter is then used to estimate risk in relation to shelter capacity by comparing it with the planned capacity of that shelter.

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen; Zhenjiang Shen; Kyohei Honda; Kenichi Sugihara; Tatsuya Nishino; Minh-Hoang Truong. A GIS-Based Model for Integrating Risk Estimations of Residential Building Damage and Shelter Capacity in the Case of Earthquakes. Natural Hazards Review 2020, 21, 04019016 .

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen, Zhenjiang Shen, Kyohei Honda, Kenichi Sugihara, Tatsuya Nishino, Minh-Hoang Truong. A GIS-Based Model for Integrating Risk Estimations of Residential Building Damage and Shelter Capacity in the Case of Earthquakes. Natural Hazards Review. 2020; 21 (2):04019016.

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Dinh-Thanh Nguyen; Zhenjiang Shen; Kyohei Honda; Kenichi Sugihara; Tatsuya Nishino; Minh-Hoang Truong. 2020. "A GIS-Based Model for Integrating Risk Estimations of Residential Building Damage and Shelter Capacity in the Case of Earthquakes." Natural Hazards Review 21, no. 2: 04019016.

Journal article
Published: 20 February 2020 in AIJ Journal of Technology and Design
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This study aims to analyze the tsunami disaster evacuation model using the current existing method, which uses only existing road, and compared with the proposed method using three types of tessellation as virtual network. The research is using Network Analysis solver within ArcGIS environment to compare 4 types of network distance with the real-world path as the standard. The result of this study has shown that the use of tessellation as a hexagon tessellation as a virtual network can help justify the real situation in the evacuation process much more precise rather than using the current existing method (standard method).

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Rifai Mardin; Zhenjiang Shen. ON-FOOT EVACUATION MODEL USING VIRTUAL TESSELLATIONS NETWORK:. AIJ Journal of Technology and Design 2020, 26, 319 -324.

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Rifai Mardin, Zhenjiang Shen. ON-FOOT EVACUATION MODEL USING VIRTUAL TESSELLATIONS NETWORK:. AIJ Journal of Technology and Design. 2020; 26 (62):319-324.

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Rifai Mardin; Zhenjiang Shen. 2020. "ON-FOOT EVACUATION MODEL USING VIRTUAL TESSELLATIONS NETWORK:." AIJ Journal of Technology and Design 26, no. 62: 319-324.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in International Journal of Sustainable Society
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This research focuses on the design of trees planting patterns based on CO

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Nurul Aini; Zhenjiang Shen. Design of tree planting pattern: impacting on the road-air quality for pedestrians from CO2 dispersion emitted from transportation. International Journal of Sustainable Society 2020, 12, 185 .

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Nurul Aini, Zhenjiang Shen. Design of tree planting pattern: impacting on the road-air quality for pedestrians from CO2 dispersion emitted from transportation. International Journal of Sustainable Society. 2020; 12 (3):185.

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Nurul Aini; Zhenjiang Shen. 2020. "Design of tree planting pattern: impacting on the road-air quality for pedestrians from CO2 dispersion emitted from transportation." International Journal of Sustainable Society 12, no. 3: 185.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2019 in Sustainability
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Many researchers have confirmed a correlation between the built environment and physical activity. However, most studies are based on the objective characteristics of the built environment, and seldom involve the residents’ subjective perception. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the subjective and objective characteristics of the built environment and physical activity at the community scale. Data consists of that collected from a social survey, Points of Interest (POI), the road network, and land use in Fuzhou, China. The duration of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) within a week is used to represent the general physical activity of residents. Security perception is introduced as an intermediary variable. SPSS software is used for factor analysis and Amos software for statistical analysis. Structural equations are set up to analyse the relationship between these variables. The final results show that: (1) The objective characteristics of the built environment have no direct impact on the development of leisure MVPA, but it can indirectly affect leisure MVPA through residents’ subjective perception of the built environment; (2) The subjective perception of residents has a significant impact on the duration of MVPA, the subjective perception of humanized space has a direct impact on the duration of MVPA, and destination accessibility and urban environment maintenance has an indirect impact through community public security perception; and (3) The individuals’ attributes such as gender and self-evaluated socioeconomic status have negative effects on the duration of leisure MVPA, and an individual’s love of sports has a positive effect on MVPA.

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Lizhen Zhao; Zhenjiang Shen; Yanji Zhang; Fubin Sheng. Study on the Impact of the Objective Characteristics and Subjective Perception of the Built Environment on Residents’ Physical Activities in Fuzhou, China. Sustainability 2019, 12, 329 .

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Lizhen Zhao, Zhenjiang Shen, Yanji Zhang, Fubin Sheng. Study on the Impact of the Objective Characteristics and Subjective Perception of the Built Environment on Residents’ Physical Activities in Fuzhou, China. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):329.

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Lizhen Zhao; Zhenjiang Shen; Yanji Zhang; Fubin Sheng. 2019. "Study on the Impact of the Objective Characteristics and Subjective Perception of the Built Environment on Residents’ Physical Activities in Fuzhou, China." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 329.

Journal article
Published: 15 October 2019 in International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
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Transportation has become one of the most significant contributors to CO2 in the world because of its fuel usage. Trees are planted on the roadside to reduce levels of CO2 in the air because trees have the ability to absorb CO2 to be used in the photosynthesis process. This ability will be maximized if the dispersion of CO2 is concentrated around the tree. However, there are some differing results from previous studies regarding this. Some research results have found trees can increase CO2 concentration and vice versa. Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate the effect of tree planting on the roadside in dispersing CO2 using a real 3D environment. The methods used in this research are CO2 emission analysis to obtain the amount of CO2. Then, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis is used to simulate the dispersion of CO2 in the study area both without trees and with trees. However, due to the mixing of air and CO2, this simulation uses a scalar mixing analysis. Some conditions are considered, such as the characteristics of buildings, the characteristics of trees, and environmental conditions. The result indicates that trees can decrease the velocity and increase the concentration of CO2 on the roadside but decrease CO2 concentration on the road. Tree planting can decrease the velocity by 4.3% in the value range 0.9-1 m/s. This condition increases CO2 concentration on the roadside. Trees can increase CO2 by 25% on the right of a roadside and increase CO2 concentration by 10% on the left side.

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Nurul Aini; Zhenjiang Shen. The Effect of Tree Planting within Roadside Green Space on Dispersion of CO2 from Transportation. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 2019, 7, 97 -112.

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Nurul Aini, Zhenjiang Shen. The Effect of Tree Planting within Roadside Green Space on Dispersion of CO2 from Transportation. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. 2019; 7 (4):97-112.

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Nurul Aini; Zhenjiang Shen. 2019. "The Effect of Tree Planting within Roadside Green Space on Dispersion of CO2 from Transportation." International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 7, no. 4: 97-112.

Review
Published: 02 August 2019 in Smart Cities
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Smart home and artificial intelligence technologies are developing rapidly, and various smart home products associated with artificial intelligence (AI) improved the quality of living for occupants. Although some studies discussed the application of artificial intelligence in smart homes, few publications fully considered the integration of literature and products. In this paper, we aim to answer the research questions of “what is the trend of smart home technology and products” and “what is the relationship between literature and products in smart homes with AI”. Literature reviews and product reviews are given to define the functions and roles of artificial intelligence in smart homes. We determined the application status of artificial intelligence in smart home products and how it is utilized in our house so that we could understand how artificial intelligence is used to make smart homes. Furthermore, our results revealed that there is a delay between literature and products, and smart home intelligent interactions will become more and more popular.

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Xiao Guo; Zhenjiang Shen; Yajing Zhang; Teng Wu. Review on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Homes. Smart Cities 2019, 2, 402 -420.

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Xiao Guo, Zhenjiang Shen, Yajing Zhang, Teng Wu. Review on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Homes. Smart Cities. 2019; 2 (3):402-420.

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Xiao Guo; Zhenjiang Shen; Yajing Zhang; Teng Wu. 2019. "Review on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Homes." Smart Cities 2, no. 3: 402-420.

Journal article
Published: 15 April 2019 in International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
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The provision of daylighting within a building performs an essential function, not only for health and visual comfort but also for energy efficiency in lighting. In tropical areas, however, excessive sunlight radiation and intensity have become a common problem in providing a sufficient amount of daylight, because they can lead to overheating. Several daylighting strategies are often employed by vernacular houses to provide daylight and to avoid heat radiation and glare. These strategies often use ray-ban glass windows material, as well as external and internal shading devices. This paper aims to investigate daylighting strategies in tropical coastal vernacular buildings and their potential application for improving daylighting performance in modern houses in the same climate. The daylight performance of three houses in a tropical coastal area was investigated via field study. The samples were chosen purposively based on construction, building material, building height and window material. Outdoor and indoor light illuminance were measured simultaneously. Indoor measurement points were placed at a height of 0.7 meter above the floor level, with 1-meter space grids. The daylight factor and illuminance level were used as performance indicators. The results indicate that the sampled houses perform poorly in regard to daylighting. This condition was caused by factors such as small-sized windows, the use of Ray-ban glass combined with the use of curtains that blocked almost 30% of daylight. Better daylighting conditions were observed in rooms with large openings (20%–40%).

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Puteri Fitriaty; Zhenjiang Shen; Andi Chairul Achsan. Daylighting Strategies in Tropical Coastal Area. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 2019, 7, 75 -91.

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Puteri Fitriaty, Zhenjiang Shen, Andi Chairul Achsan. Daylighting Strategies in Tropical Coastal Area. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. 2019; 7 (2):75-91.

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Puteri Fitriaty; Zhenjiang Shen; Andi Chairul Achsan. 2019. "Daylighting Strategies in Tropical Coastal Area." International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 7, no. 2: 75-91.

Journal article
Published: 28 January 2019 in Sustainability
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By means of on-site and network investigation, we collected data relevant to residents of communities, point of interest (POI) data, and land-use data of Fuzhou. We set traffic walking time and leisure walking time as an independent variable, built environment as dependent variable, and gender, age, education level and income level as control variables. Six linear regression models were established using Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS). The results showed that in the 5D (i.e., Density, Diversity, Design, Destination and Distance) elements of the built environment, the density was negatively correlated with the traffic walking time, whereas other elements were positively correlated with the walking time, but the degree of influence was different.

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Lizhen Zhao; Zhenjiang Shen; Yanji Zhang; Yan Ma. The Impact of the Community Built Environment on the Walking Times of Residents in a Community in the Downtown Area of Fuzhou. Sustainability 2019, 11, 691 .

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Lizhen Zhao, Zhenjiang Shen, Yanji Zhang, Yan Ma. The Impact of the Community Built Environment on the Walking Times of Residents in a Community in the Downtown Area of Fuzhou. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (3):691.

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Lizhen Zhao; Zhenjiang Shen; Yanji Zhang; Yan Ma. 2019. "The Impact of the Community Built Environment on the Walking Times of Residents in a Community in the Downtown Area of Fuzhou." Sustainability 11, no. 3: 691.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2019 in International Journal of Sustainable Society
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Head mounted display is considered useful for designing process. This research aims at investigating how the interactivity of functions and parts in mixed reality (MR) device can support the students' designing process and confirm the possibility of MR as sustainable technology. Students create 3D model using SketchUp, configure the scene in Unity, export Unity file to Visual Studio, build and deploy into MR, and confirm on the site. The result shows that although it is difficult for some students to operate MR, most of them could reach the manipulation and precision stage. MR also accelerates the prototyping of new design. It determines the feasibility of MR on design and planning education. At present, MR can only provide students with more realistic vision and basic operations but cannot significantly improve students' design. This research can be a reference for educators to support students in developing their design ideas.

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Ade Candra Masrul; Zhenjiang Shen; Xiao Guo; Kenichi Sugihara; Tatsuya Nishino. Feasibility study of mixed reality on education of design and planning students based on Bloom taxonomy. International Journal of Sustainable Society 2019, 11, 202 -219.

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Ade Candra Masrul, Zhenjiang Shen, Xiao Guo, Kenichi Sugihara, Tatsuya Nishino. Feasibility study of mixed reality on education of design and planning students based on Bloom taxonomy. International Journal of Sustainable Society. 2019; 11 (3):202-219.

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Ade Candra Masrul; Zhenjiang Shen; Xiao Guo; Kenichi Sugihara; Tatsuya Nishino. 2019. "Feasibility study of mixed reality on education of design and planning students based on Bloom taxonomy." International Journal of Sustainable Society 11, no. 3: 202-219.

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Published: 01 September 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Puteri Fitriaty; Zhenjiang Shen. Predicting energy generation from residential building attached Photovoltaic Cells in a tropical area using 3D modeling analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 195, 1422 -1436.

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Puteri Fitriaty, Zhenjiang Shen. Predicting energy generation from residential building attached Photovoltaic Cells in a tropical area using 3D modeling analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 195 ():1422-1436.

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Puteri Fitriaty; Zhenjiang Shen. 2018. "Predicting energy generation from residential building attached Photovoltaic Cells in a tropical area using 3D modeling analysis." Journal of Cleaner Production 195, no. : 1422-1436.

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Published: 30 August 2018 in Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Urban environment is the place that human depends on to survive. The quality of urban design concepts will directly impact the change of urban environment. However, due to the lack of user interaction and clear information exchange between users and designers, it is difficult for users to understand urban design concepts, and sometimes even misunderstanding will be caused. Thus, the present paper seeks to improve users’ understanding of urban design concepts via available communication media and using useful presentation technology (VR with the integrated APS). In this research, we recruited 60 participants to view the script video (the running result of APS) or/and free navigate in the virtual environment of Tatsumi region, Tokyo Bay Zone, Japan. By studying the data of subjective feedbacks, we investigated how APS impacts participants’ cognition and evaluation of Sustainable Taches and Reactivate Space (STARS, the design concepts). Furthermore, qualitative interview was developed to further understand participants’ design concepts understanding and to verify whether VR with the integrated APS can improve users’ understanding of urban design concepts. Results from this research explains the future use of VR with the integrated APS technology as an efficient tool in urban design schemes presentation.

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Yuanyi Zhang; Zhenjiang Shen; Shuhu Liu. Virtual reality with the integrated automatic presentation scrip for improving concepts understanding of Urban Design - a case study in Tatsumi region of Tokyo Bay zone, Japan. Multimedia Tools and Applications 2018, 79, 3125 -3144.

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Yuanyi Zhang, Zhenjiang Shen, Shuhu Liu. Virtual reality with the integrated automatic presentation scrip for improving concepts understanding of Urban Design - a case study in Tatsumi region of Tokyo Bay zone, Japan. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2018; 79 (5-6):3125-3144.

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Yuanyi Zhang; Zhenjiang Shen; Shuhu Liu. 2018. "Virtual reality with the integrated automatic presentation scrip for improving concepts understanding of Urban Design - a case study in Tatsumi region of Tokyo Bay zone, Japan." Multimedia Tools and Applications 79, no. 5-6: 3125-3144.

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Published: 15 May 2018 in International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
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This article proposes a community renewal strategy named ‘cultural restored, community repaired'. It aims to emphasize the interaction between culture and community, promotes community renewal quality through the use of culture, and promotes the culture development by community renewal. ‘cultural restored' is the core idea, include material culture restored, institutional culture restored, and spiritual culture restored, they can correspond to the methods of ‘community repaired', which are space network repaired, governance network repaired, and social network repaired. In this work, the author chooses Caohuajie community in Chongqing as a case, which already got renewed by using this strategy, to discuss the feasibility and effectiveness of this strategy.

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Meng Zhou; Ling Huang; Zhenjiang Shen. Community Renewal Strategy from the Perspective of Cultural Planning. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 2018, 6A, 1 -16.

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Meng Zhou, Ling Huang, Zhenjiang Shen. Community Renewal Strategy from the Perspective of Cultural Planning. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. 2018; 6A (1):1-16.

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Meng Zhou; Ling Huang; Zhenjiang Shen. 2018. "Community Renewal Strategy from the Perspective of Cultural Planning." International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 6A, no. 1: 1-16.