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CASA Seminar Series: Guibo Sun, HKU
08 February 2023, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
This is a fully-remote event.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Max Nathan
Location
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UCLGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
Recently, high-density cities have experienced a rapid increase in the ageing population, together with changes in building, transport and open space. My research aims to study how these changes in built environment affect the social, health and wellbeing outcomes. Rigorous methods, such as natural experiments, are used to collect causal evidence of social and health impacts imposed by urban interventions. The cases include new metro, urban renewal and street experiments in Hong Kong, a three-dimensional and volumetric high-density city. In this seminar, I will present our efforts in research niches of Urban Analytics and Interventions Research Lab at the University of Hong Kong.
About the Speaker
Dr Guibo Sun
Assistant Professor/Director, Urban Analytics and Interventions Research Lab at University of Hong Kong
Dr Guibo Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design and the director of the Urban Analytics and Interventions Research Lab at the University of Hong Kong. His research interest lies in causal inference in urban interventions’ social and health effects in high-density cities. He was the winner RTPI Early Career Academic Award in 2019 and RTPI Commendation Award for Research Excellence in 2019 and 2021 for mapping the three-dimensional pedestrian network of Hong Kong. He also received HKU Research Output Prize 2021 for his natural experiment study in new metro and active travel in medium-sized cities in China. He received his PhD in Geoinformation Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014).