Fangping Rao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3051392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fangping Rao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fangping |
| FAMILY NAME | Rao |
| SIGNATURE | RAO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6828-6944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Greater losses from heat exposure experienced by female smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa
Revisiting the impact of environmental factors on outdoor public space use
Towards open-air markets for people in the post-Covid-19 era
The transformation of transport spaces into open-air markets – catalysed by the Covid-19 pandemic – has become a durable trend, signalling a promising trajectory for sustainable urban transitions towards the ‘15-minute city’, where people can comfortably walk or cycle to shop or socialise. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics linking open-air markets, transport and urban public life remain underexplored. We address this gap through a mixed-method…
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai
Unravelling the Spatial Arrangement of the 15-Minute City
The spatial arrangement of the popular ‘15-minute city’ struggles for definitional clarity, threatening effective application of the theory in practice. We conduct a comparative study of Shanghai, Melbourne, and Portland – pioneering cities in planning 15/20-minute neighbourhoods, by reviewing related planning documents and mapping the morphologies of walkable urban areas in these cities. Our findings highlight the capacity of planners to be cons…
Role of public and private investments for green economic recovery in the post-Covid-19
This study evaluates the outlook of government expenditure through public and private financing for the green economic revitalization after COVID-19 in Canada. The various econometric estimations are used to measure the impact of government expenditure on green economic recovery. The implementation of public investment is explicitly associated with private funding. The results suggest that the government policy incentives and non-government finan…
Toward Urban-Oriented Shopping Center Development in the Post-Covid Era? Learning from Shopping Centers with Apple Store
The persistence of post-COVID shopping centers arguably depends on the urban experience. However, contemporary shopping morphologies and their preparedness for urban transitions are not well understood. We tackled the research gap through a mixed-methods approach combining spatial and quantitative analysis, using a large number of shopping centers with Apple Store in the United States. Our key findings feature three “E” (experiment, experience, a…
Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era
This research explores how central-city shopping districts could be transformed to support a post-Covid lifestyle, where people re-embrace community, local streets and walking while relying more on online shopping. By reviewing metropolitan/city development plans since the 1980s and mapping changes of retail provisions, urban environment and pedestrian movements in Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid in the twenty-first century, this paper shows that plannin…
Shopping and Urbanity
Car-dependent cities of the mid-late twentieth century transformed urban shopping as shopping centres became privatised and separated from urban life – traditional main streets were often replaced by suburban malls and then power centres (big-box clusters). We identify 13 emerging synergies between these retail types and critique the ways the synergies may foster or endanger urban public life. This evidence suggests contradictory trends: a return…
Shopping morphologies of urban transit station areas
Synergies between shopping and public transit have long been noted, with main streets emerging along tram lines and shopping malls attached to train stations. The shopping-transit synergy is also at the core of transit-oriented development (TOD), a widespread planning approach to urban sustainability. However, there is a lack of morphological research investigating how shopping clusters around transit stations at a fine-geographic scale. This pap…
When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability
We tested Jane Jacobs’ seminal finding—industry diversity and walkability contribute to urban innovation—at the walkable scale using the cases of Baltimore, United States, and Melbourne, Australia. We found that walkable urban form stimulates knowledge spillovers among workers of different industries, leading to innovation. One standard deviation increase in industry diversity in one-square-kilometer grids is associated with 1.3 to 3.4 more paten…
Shopping centre morphologies in transition
Unravelling material/digital shopping space
In this paper, I propose a new retail typology to explore emerging shopping space through the lens of assemblage thinking. The recent rise of online retailing has stimulated substantial net-closures of brick-and-mortar shops-what some call the "retail apocalypse". While being widely covered by the news media, the impact of online retailing on shopping space receives little attention in existing research. There is, in particular, a lack of a retai…
Agglomeration and assemblage
In two recent papers Storper and Scott have sought to counter the rise of assemblage thinking in urban studies, suggesting it is indeterminate, jargon-ridden and particularist – that it lacks a critique of power. Against such approaches they propose the ‘nature of cities’ as an ‘urban land nexus’ driven by the economics of agglomeration. In this paper we respond, largely agreeing on jargon yet arguing that assemblage is a form of critical urban t…
Land tenure (in)security and crop-tree intercropping in rural Xinjiang, China
Planning for retail resilience
Agglomeration and assemblage
In two recent papers Storper and Scott have sought to counter the rise of assemblage thinking in urban studies, suggesting it is indeterminate, jargon-ridden and particularist – that it lacks a critique of power. Against such approaches they propose the ‘nature of cities’ as an ‘urban land nexus’ driven by the economics of agglomeration. In this paper we respond, largely agreeing on jargon yet arguing that assemblage is a form of critical urban t…
Planning for retail resilience
Land tenure (in)security and crop-tree intercropping in rural Xinjiang, China
Shopping morphologies of urban transit station areas
Synergies between shopping and public transit have long been noted, with main streets emerging along tram lines and shopping malls attached to train stations. The shopping-transit synergy is also at the core of transit-oriented development (TOD), a widespread planning approach to urban sustainability. However, there is a lack of morphological research investigating how shopping clusters around transit stations at a fine-geographic scale. This pap…
Unravelling material/digital shopping space
In this paper, I propose a new retail typology to explore emerging shopping space through the lens of assemblage thinking. The recent rise of online retailing has stimulated substantial net-closures of brick-and-mortar shops-what some call the "retail apocalypse". While being widely covered by the news media, the impact of online retailing on shopping space receives little attention in existing research. There is, in particular, a lack of a retai…
Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era
This research explores how central-city shopping districts could be transformed to support a post-Covid lifestyle, where people re-embrace community, local streets and walking while relying more on online shopping. By reviewing metropolitan/city development plans since the 1980s and mapping changes of retail provisions, urban environment and pedestrian movements in Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid in the twenty-first century, this paper shows that plannin…
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai
When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability
We tested Jane Jacobs’ seminal finding—industry diversity and walkability contribute to urban innovation—at the walkable scale using the cases of Baltimore, United States, and Melbourne, Australia. We found that walkable urban form stimulates knowledge spillovers among workers of different industries, leading to innovation. One standard deviation increase in industry diversity in one-square-kilometer grids is associated with 1.3 to 3.4 more paten…
Land tenure (in)security and crop-tree intercropping in rural Xinjiang, China
Planning for retail resilience
Agglomeration and assemblage
In two recent papers Storper and Scott have sought to counter the rise of assemblage thinking in urban studies, suggesting it is indeterminate, jargon-ridden and particularist – that it lacks a critique of power. Against such approaches they propose the ‘nature of cities’ as an ‘urban land nexus’ driven by the economics of agglomeration. In this paper we respond, largely agreeing on jargon yet arguing that assemblage is a form of critical urban t…
Shopping centre morphologies in transition
Unravelling material/digital shopping space
In this paper, I propose a new retail typology to explore emerging shopping space through the lens of assemblage thinking. The recent rise of online retailing has stimulated substantial net-closures of brick-and-mortar shops-what some call the "retail apocalypse". While being widely covered by the news media, the impact of online retailing on shopping space receives little attention in existing research. There is, in particular, a lack of a retai…
Shopping and Urbanity
Car-dependent cities of the mid-late twentieth century transformed urban shopping as shopping centres became privatised and separated from urban life – traditional main streets were often replaced by suburban malls and then power centres (big-box clusters). We identify 13 emerging synergies between these retail types and critique the ways the synergies may foster or endanger urban public life. This evidence suggests contradictory trends: a return…
Shopping morphologies of urban transit station areas
Synergies between shopping and public transit have long been noted, with main streets emerging along tram lines and shopping malls attached to train stations. The shopping-transit synergy is also at the core of transit-oriented development (TOD), a widespread planning approach to urban sustainability. However, there is a lack of morphological research investigating how shopping clusters around transit stations at a fine-geographic scale. This pap…
When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability
We tested Jane Jacobs’ seminal finding—industry diversity and walkability contribute to urban innovation—at the walkable scale using the cases of Baltimore, United States, and Melbourne, Australia. We found that walkable urban form stimulates knowledge spillovers among workers of different industries, leading to innovation. One standard deviation increase in industry diversity in one-square-kilometer grids is associated with 1.3 to 3.4 more paten…
Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era
This research explores how central-city shopping districts could be transformed to support a post-Covid lifestyle, where people re-embrace community, local streets and walking while relying more on online shopping. By reviewing metropolitan/city development plans since the 1980s and mapping changes of retail provisions, urban environment and pedestrian movements in Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid in the twenty-first century, this paper shows that plannin…
Role of public and private investments for green economic recovery in the post-Covid-19
This study evaluates the outlook of government expenditure through public and private financing for the green economic revitalization after COVID-19 in Canada. The various econometric estimations are used to measure the impact of government expenditure on green economic recovery. The implementation of public investment is explicitly associated with private funding. The results suggest that the government policy incentives and non-government finan…
Toward Urban-Oriented Shopping Center Development in the Post-Covid Era? Learning from Shopping Centers with Apple Store
The persistence of post-COVID shopping centers arguably depends on the urban experience. However, contemporary shopping morphologies and their preparedness for urban transitions are not well understood. We tackled the research gap through a mixed-methods approach combining spatial and quantitative analysis, using a large number of shopping centers with Apple Store in the United States. Our key findings feature three “E” (experiment, experience, a…
Unravelling the Spatial Arrangement of the 15-Minute City
The spatial arrangement of the popular ‘15-minute city’ struggles for definitional clarity, threatening effective application of the theory in practice. We conduct a comparative study of Shanghai, Melbourne, and Portland – pioneering cities in planning 15/20-minute neighbourhoods, by reviewing related planning documents and mapping the morphologies of walkable urban areas in these cities. Our findings highlight the capacity of planners to be cons…
Mapping priority zones for urban heat mitigation in Shanghai
Greater losses from heat exposure experienced by female smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa
Revisiting the impact of environmental factors on outdoor public space use
Towards open-air markets for people in the post-Covid-19 era
The transformation of transport spaces into open-air markets – catalysed by the Covid-19 pandemic – has become a durable trend, signalling a promising trajectory for sustainable urban transitions towards the ‘15-minute city’, where people can comfortably walk or cycle to shop or socialise. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics linking open-air markets, transport and urban public life remain underexplored. We address this gap through a mixed-method…
Geography (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies (4 works)