Dr. Jinliao He

Jinliao He was a research associate at the Human Geography Research Group of the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University until 2015.

Research interests

• Creative/Cultural industries and cities, Urban Regeneration, Spatial Economy
• Ecological Cities, Assessment of Land-use, GIS Application in Urban Planning

Research project

Creative industry districts in Shanghai: an analysis of dynamics, networks and implications (Ph.D. project)

Teaching

Seminar and Big Excursion “Urban Spaces in China” (Sep. 2013), together with Dr. Klaus Sachs and Holger Köppe

Publications

• Jinliao He (2014): Creative Industry Districts: An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai, Springer, March 2014 (forthcoming)
• Jinliao He and Hans Gebhardt (2013): Space of Creative Industries: a Case Study of Spatial Characteristics of Creative Clusters in Shanghai, European Planning Studies,doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2013.837430
• Jinliao He and Hans Gebhardt (2012): Socio-cultural Embeddedness of Spatial Agglomeration of Creative Industries in Shanghai, Sociology Study, Vol.2, 8, 605-614. (in English)
• Jinliao He, Yueguang Zong, Hans Gebhardt (2011): New Spatial Strategy in China: Major Function Zoning of Beijing – Tianjin Metropolitan Area with Perspective from Ecological Economics, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol.137, 4,484-494. (in English)
• Jinliao He (2011): Creative Cities: Shanghai und Berlin im Vergleich, Deutsch-Chinesisches CultureNetz, April 2011. (in German)
• Jinliao He, Yueguang Zong, Wei Yang (2008): The Analysis of Water Network of Beijing-Tianjin Region Based on the Complex Network Theory, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: The Built Environment and Its Dynamics, Proceedings of SPIE 7144, 71442O, doi:10.1117/12.812845. (in English)
• Jinliao He, Yueguang Zong, Junjie Guo (2008): Naturalism: City Bionic Design – A Case study of Ecological Landscape Concept Planning of Yangzhong in Jiangsu Province, Planners, Vol.24, 6, 38-41. (in Chinese)
• Jinliao He, Yueguang Zong, Lei Zhang (2007): Evolution of Rural Culture Landscape and Its Mechanism Analysis in Xiangzhong Hilly Region, Journal of Nanjing Normal University (nature and science edition), Vol.30, 4, 94-98. (in Chinese)
• Jinliao He, Yueguang Zong, Tusuo Geng (2007): The Study and Expectation of African Water Resource Problem, Processdings of Development forum of Africa-China cooperation, Nanjing, China, 28-29. (in Chinese)

Invited presentations

• Space of Creative Industries: a Case Study of Spatial Characteristics of Creative Clusters in Shanghai. Recent Urban Developments in China, IGU Urban General Meeting, Cologne, August 27-30, 2012.
• Youthful Creative Workers in Shanghai, a City Which Never Gets Old. Growing Up and Growing Old in Shanghai, Delhi and Tokyo. Inter-generational Stories from Asia’s Global Cities, Shanghai, September 7-10, 2011.
• Empirical study on China’s Major Function Zoning from the Perspective of Ecological Economics—Case study on Beijing-Tianjin Area. The 5th International Urban Ecology Congress, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 22-24, 2010.