Yang Chen, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Fellow (Special Appointment) at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He is a member of the Urban Planning Society of China and a National Registered Urban and Rural Planner. His research focuses on land-use management and sustainable urban–rural planning in mountainous regions, with particular interest in human settlements, spatial patterns, housing morphology optimization, and built-environment impacts on the urban thermal environment. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and Regional Sustainability (Youth Editor), and as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Land, and regularly reviews manuscripts for a range of journals.