Pengyu Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pengyu Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pengyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0892-3606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
State entrepreneurialism under economic transition: Bounded rationality in China’s high-speed rail new town governance
Drawing on 16 high-speed rail (HSR) new towns along the Beijing–Shanghai corridor, this paper develops a middle-range explanation of how state entrepreneurialism is practiced and differentiated under conditions of economic transition in China. While the notion of state entrepreneurialism has been widely used to interpret postreform urban development, its application to HSR new town governance often under specifies how cognitive limits, uneven inf…
Analyzing built environment impacts on travel distances across different transportation modes and employment status in Abu Dhabi
This study examined how built environment variables based on the 4Ds model (Diversity, Design, Density and Distance to Transit) affect travel distances across three transportation modes (cars, buses, and active travel) in Abu Dhabi, for both employed and unemployed individuals. Using data from the Abu Dhabi household travel survey and geospatial datasets, the study employed Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to analyze linear relationships a…
How does China’s low-carbon city pilot program promote green investment: A spatial–temporal analysis at the city and firm levels
The study examines how China Low-Carbon City Pilot (LCCP) program, as a comprehensive environmental regulation, promotes green investment using a dual-level framework that links firm-level behavioral response with city-level spatial dynamics. Using panel data for 276 cities and 28,907 listed firms from 2008 to 2021, we employ multi-period difference-in-differences and a spatial DiD approach. The findings corroborate that the LCCP significantly in…
Discovering the Temporal Evolution of Spatial Spillovers of Green Innovation: An Innovative Approach Using Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Weight Matrices
Understanding how spatial spillovers evolve over time—strengthening, weakening, or reversing—is a fundamental challenge in spatial econometrics, yet most empirical studies rely on static weight matrices that assume time-invariant spatial dependence. This article proposes a broadly applicable spatial-temporal weight matrix (STWM) framework in which temporal weights are derived from annual ratios of Moran’s I and Geary’s C, enabling the matrix to i…
Long-term impacts of historical education policy on wages in China: Insights on over-education
This article contributes to the discourse on the phenomenon of over-education and its implications for labor misallocation within China. The celebrated Imperial Examination System, initiated in the Sui dynasty and enduring until 1905, cultivated an elite-driven society where educational attainments were paramount. Our study delves into historical Jinshi density data—indicative of the highest accolade in said examinations—coupled with insights fro…
From propaganda to neoliberal consumer culture: The cultural logics of physical activity promotion in Maoist and urban China
1. Introduction As global societies confront rising rates of obesity, inactivity, and aging, the promotion of physical activity has become an urgent public health priority (1). Yet in China, physical activity is not merely a biomedical or behavioral concern—it is a deeply cultural practice, shaped by shifting logics of governance, identity, and aspiration. This opinion article argues that physical activity in China has evolved through three overl…
Quality or quantity of urban greenery: Which matters more to mental health? Evidence from housing prices in the Pearl River Delta
Multimodal MRI study of gray matter and functional connectivity abnormalities in adolescents with bipolar disorder
Our findings suggest that adolescent BD is characterized by functional abnormalities within DMN and FPN, as well as cerebellar gray matter atrophy. Disrupted structure-function coupling in these regions may reflect possible neurobiological mechanisms underlying BD during adolescence
Unravelling regional inequality: The heterogeneous impact of China’s Great Western Development Program
This paper studies China's Great Western Development Program, which was designed to promote growth in the backward western provinces. In addition to evaluating its original policy goal, we further investigate its unintended consequences and potential mechanisms. Employing a regression discontinuity design and night-light series data, we find that the Program led to a 1.3–1.7% faster annual output growth in China's western region. Though the finan…
Pandemic-era behavioral changes and post-pandemic persistence in the high-density urban context of Hong Kong
Technical control of late Shang dynasty from the perspective of jade making technology
은허 유적에서 출토된 상대 후기의 많은 옥기는 생산 과정에서 뛰어난 기술적, 예술적 수준을 보여준다. 특히 쌍음제양(雙陰擠陽)과 일면파(一面坡) 등 두 가지 공예는 은허 유 적에서 발전을 이루었고 다양하게 응용되어, 동일한 시기에 속하는 모든 유적지 가운데서 도 양과 질 등의 여러 측면에서 선도적인 위치를 차지했다. 이와 유사한 공예는 은허 이외 에도 텅저우(滕州) 첸장다(前掌大) 묘지, 링스(靈石) 징제(旌介) 묘지, 신간(新干) 다양저 우(大洋洲) 묘지, 후난(湖南) 닝샹(寧鄕) 황차이(黃材) 싼무디(三畝地) 등의 유적지에서 발견되었다. 이와 같은 사실은 상 나라가 핵심 통치 구역에서는 이러한 선진 제옥(製玉) 기술에 대해 어느 정도 기술적인 통제를 시행했지만, 변경 지역과 인접한 다른 문화 지역 에 대해서는 그와는 다른 정책과 교류 방식을 채택했을 가능성이 있음을 시사한다
How does spatial structure affect psychological restoration? A method based on graph neural networks and street view imagery
Exploring spatial heterogeneity in the impact of built environment on taxi ridership using multiscale geographically weighted regression
The Impact of Changing Work Arrangements on the Fiscal Base of Urban Government: Prospects for Adaptation and Mitigation
The pandemic has brought about various changes, such as work-from-home or telecommuting, and an increase in online shopping for day-to-day necessities. These changes have had a sizeable impact on commercial real estate businesses and, to a varying degree, on the fiscal base of local governments, especially in large cities. As the world settles into the post-pandemic era, flexible working arrangements such as remote work, hybrid work, and telecomm…
How is commute mode choice related to built environment in a high-density urban context
Does telecommuting influence homeownership and housing choice? Evidence based on pre-pandemic data
Telecommuting has become widespread during the pandemic and are expected to become mainstream work culture in the post-pandemic era. By applying a three-step Instrumental Variable analysis to the 2009 and 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Surveys, this study analyzes the impact of telecommuting on homeownership and housing type choices. Results show that, households with telecommuters are more likely to be homeowners and to live in detached or …
Ridesharing accessibility from the human eye: Spatial modeling of built environment with street-level images
Scholarly interest in the accessibility of ridesharing services stems from debates within the transportation and planning communities on the inequality of access to transit and the growing digital divide embedded within novel forms of transit services. Contributing to such discussions, this paper considers the city of Atlanta as a case study and explores the links between the spatial disparity of accessibility to different Uber ridesharing produc…
Multi-Scenario Simulation of Land Use and Landscape Ecological Risk Response Based on Planning Control
This study applied territorial spatial planning control to a land use multi-scenario simulation in Changde, China, and measured the landscape ecological risk response. It embedded five planning control schemes, respectively, involving inertial development, urban expansion size quantity control, ecological spatial structure control, land use zoning control, and comprehensive control. Findings show that: (1) Woodland and arable land in Changde occu…
Evaluating the effectiveness of Hong Kong’s border restriction policy in reducing Covid-19 infections
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Hong Kong's strict border restrictions with mainland China in curbing the transmission of COVID-19. Combining big data from Baidu Population Migration with traditional meteorological data and census data for over 200 Chinese cities, we utilize an advanced quantitative approach, namely synthetic control modeling, to produce a counterfactual "synthetic Hong Kong" without a strict border restriction policy. …
Land use regulations, transit investment, and commuting preferences
In the U.S., various anti-sprawl land use regulations have been implemented for over two decades. Previous studies primarily investigate the impacts of local land use regulations or neighborhood-level built environment attributes on travel behaviors within a narrow time frame. Through a different lens, this paper examines how various local land use regulations and transit investment, both measured at the aggregated metropolitan level, have affect…
Understanding taxi ridership with spatial spillover effects and temporal dynamics
Spatial congruency or mismatch? Analyzing the Covid-19 potential infection risk and urban density as businesses reopen
Applying a Population Flow-Based Spatial Weight Matrix in Spatial Econometric Models: Conceptual Framework and Application to Covid-19 Transmission Analysis
This article proposes a novel method for constructing an asymmetric spatial weight matrix and applies it to improve spatial econometric modeling. As opposed to traditional spatial weight matrices that simply consider geographic or economic proximity, the spatial weight matrix proposed in this study is based on large-volume daily population flow data. It can more accurately reflect the socioeconomic interactions between cities over any given perio…
Is compulsory home quarantine less effective than centralized quarantine in controlling the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from Hong Kong
Faced with the global spread of COVID-19, the Hong Kong government imposed compulsory home quarantine on all overseas arrivals, while cities in mainland China and Macau adopted a more stringent centralized quarantine approach. This study evaluates the effectiveness of compulsory home quarantine as a means of pandemic control. Combining epidemiological data with traditional socioeconomic and meteorological data from over 250 cities, we employ the …
Metropolitan size and the impacts of telecommuting on personal travel
Land expropriation in urbanizing China: An examination of negotiations and compensation
A driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization. In this study, we analyze 2009 survey data of land expropriation cases across 12 Chinese cities, and find that expropria…
Residential segregation and employment outcomes of rural migrant workers in China
In China, many rural migrant workers live in urbanising villages that are usually located in peripheral areas of major cities. Different from the spatial mismatch literature in which locations of minorities in the US are constrained by racial discrimination in the housing market, the residential segregation of rural migrant workers in China is largely due to China’s unique institutional context (e.g. land tenure system, hukou system) and the excl…
Sorting through Neoliberal Variations of Ghost Cities in China
Telecommuting, Household Commute and Location Choice
Previous empirical studies have made contributions to the understanding of the impact of telecommuting on individual travel patterns. There has been much less research that has examined the impact of telecommuting on commute travel at the household level. Using data from the 2001 and 2009 US National Household Travel Surveys, this study focuses on one-worker and two-worker households and investigates how telecommuting affects household one-way co…
Smart growth in two contrastive metropolitan areas: A comparison between Portland and Los Angeles
This study compares urban landscapes in the Portland and Los Angeles metropolitan areas at the neighbourhood level by operationalising six smart growth indices and mapping their spatial distribution patterns and time trends. Analysis results show that the two metropolitan areas have both strengths and weaknesses in different aspects of smart growth. Most neighbourhoods in both regions do not excel in all six smart growth measures: they are at the…
Does telecommuting influence homeownership and housing choice? Evidence based on pre-pandemic data
Telecommuting has become widespread during the pandemic and are expected to become mainstream work culture in the post-pandemic era. By applying a three-step Instrumental Variable analysis to the 2009 and 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Surveys, this study analyzes the impact of telecommuting on homeownership and housing type choices. Results show that, households with telecommuters are more likely to be homeowners and to live in detached or …
Spatial congruency or mismatch? Analyzing the Covid-19 potential infection risk and urban density as businesses reopen
Applying a Population Flow-Based Spatial Weight Matrix in Spatial Econometric Models: Conceptual Framework and Application to Covid-19 Transmission Analysis
This article proposes a novel method for constructing an asymmetric spatial weight matrix and applies it to improve spatial econometric modeling. As opposed to traditional spatial weight matrices that simply consider geographic or economic proximity, the spatial weight matrix proposed in this study is based on large-volume daily population flow data. It can more accurately reflect the socioeconomic interactions between cities over any given perio…
How is commute mode choice related to built environment in a high-density urban context
Land use regulations, transit investment, and commuting preferences
In the U.S., various anti-sprawl land use regulations have been implemented for over two decades. Previous studies primarily investigate the impacts of local land use regulations or neighborhood-level built environment attributes on travel behaviors within a narrow time frame. Through a different lens, this paper examines how various local land use regulations and transit investment, both measured at the aggregated metropolitan level, have affect…
Understanding taxi ridership with spatial spillover effects and temporal dynamics
Donor states and donee states: Investigating geographic redistribution of the US federal-aid highway program 1974–2008
Building Resilient Regions: Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4, Edited by Margaret Wier, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman
Telecommuting, Household Commute and Location Choice
Previous empirical studies have made contributions to the understanding of the impact of telecommuting on individual travel patterns. There has been much less research that has examined the impact of telecommuting on commute travel at the household level. Using data from the 2001 and 2009 US National Household Travel Surveys, this study focuses on one-worker and two-worker households and investigates how telecommuting affects household one-way co…
Smart growth in two contrastive metropolitan areas: A comparison between Portland and Los Angeles
This study compares urban landscapes in the Portland and Los Angeles metropolitan areas at the neighbourhood level by operationalising six smart growth indices and mapping their spatial distribution patterns and time trends. Analysis results show that the two metropolitan areas have both strengths and weaknesses in different aspects of smart growth. Most neighbourhoods in both regions do not excel in all six smart growth measures: they are at the…
Land expropriation in urbanizing China: An examination of negotiations and compensation
A driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization. In this study, we analyze 2009 survey data of land expropriation cases across 12 Chinese cities, and find that expropria…
Residential segregation and employment outcomes of rural migrant workers in China
In China, many rural migrant workers live in urbanising villages that are usually located in peripheral areas of major cities. Different from the spatial mismatch literature in which locations of minorities in the US are constrained by racial discrimination in the housing market, the residential segregation of rural migrant workers in China is largely due to China’s unique institutional context (e.g. land tenure system, hukou system) and the excl…
Sorting through Neoliberal Variations of Ghost Cities in China
Metropolitan size and the impacts of telecommuting on personal travel
Is compulsory home quarantine less effective than centralized quarantine in controlling the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from Hong Kong
Faced with the global spread of COVID-19, the Hong Kong government imposed compulsory home quarantine on all overseas arrivals, while cities in mainland China and Macau adopted a more stringent centralized quarantine approach. This study evaluates the effectiveness of compulsory home quarantine as a means of pandemic control. Combining epidemiological data with traditional socioeconomic and meteorological data from over 250 cities, we employ the …
Ridesharing accessibility from the human eye: Spatial modeling of built environment with street-level images
Scholarly interest in the accessibility of ridesharing services stems from debates within the transportation and planning communities on the inequality of access to transit and the growing digital divide embedded within novel forms of transit services. Contributing to such discussions, this paper considers the city of Atlanta as a case study and explores the links between the spatial disparity of accessibility to different Uber ridesharing produc…
Multi-Scenario Simulation of Land Use and Landscape Ecological Risk Response Based on Planning Control
This study applied territorial spatial planning control to a land use multi-scenario simulation in Changde, China, and measured the landscape ecological risk response. It embedded five planning control schemes, respectively, involving inertial development, urban expansion size quantity control, ecological spatial structure control, land use zoning control, and comprehensive control. Findings show that: (1) Woodland and arable land in Changde occu…
Evaluating the effectiveness of Hong Kong’s border restriction policy in reducing Covid-19 infections
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Hong Kong's strict border restrictions with mainland China in curbing the transmission of COVID-19. Combining big data from Baidu Population Migration with traditional meteorological data and census data for over 200 Chinese cities, we utilize an advanced quantitative approach, namely synthetic control modeling, to produce a counterfactual "synthetic Hong Kong" without a strict border restriction policy. …
Land use regulations, transit investment, and commuting preferences
In the U.S., various anti-sprawl land use regulations have been implemented for over two decades. Previous studies primarily investigate the impacts of local land use regulations or neighborhood-level built environment attributes on travel behaviors within a narrow time frame. Through a different lens, this paper examines how various local land use regulations and transit investment, both measured at the aggregated metropolitan level, have affect…
Understanding taxi ridership with spatial spillover effects and temporal dynamics
Spatial congruency or mismatch? Analyzing the Covid-19 potential infection risk and urban density as businesses reopen
Applying a Population Flow-Based Spatial Weight Matrix in Spatial Econometric Models: Conceptual Framework and Application to Covid-19 Transmission Analysis
This article proposes a novel method for constructing an asymmetric spatial weight matrix and applies it to improve spatial econometric modeling. As opposed to traditional spatial weight matrices that simply consider geographic or economic proximity, the spatial weight matrix proposed in this study is based on large-volume daily population flow data. It can more accurately reflect the socioeconomic interactions between cities over any given perio…
The Impact of Changing Work Arrangements on the Fiscal Base of Urban Government: Prospects for Adaptation and Mitigation
The pandemic has brought about various changes, such as work-from-home or telecommuting, and an increase in online shopping for day-to-day necessities. These changes have had a sizeable impact on commercial real estate businesses and, to a varying degree, on the fiscal base of local governments, especially in large cities. As the world settles into the post-pandemic era, flexible working arrangements such as remote work, hybrid work, and telecomm…
How is commute mode choice related to built environment in a high-density urban context
Does telecommuting influence homeownership and housing choice? Evidence based on pre-pandemic data
Telecommuting has become widespread during the pandemic and are expected to become mainstream work culture in the post-pandemic era. By applying a three-step Instrumental Variable analysis to the 2009 and 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Surveys, this study analyzes the impact of telecommuting on homeownership and housing type choices. Results show that, households with telecommuters are more likely to be homeowners and to live in detached or …
Technical control of late Shang dynasty from the perspective of jade making technology
은허 유적에서 출토된 상대 후기의 많은 옥기는 생산 과정에서 뛰어난 기술적, 예술적 수준을 보여준다. 특히 쌍음제양(雙陰擠陽)과 일면파(一面坡) 등 두 가지 공예는 은허 유 적에서 발전을 이루었고 다양하게 응용되어, 동일한 시기에 속하는 모든 유적지 가운데서 도 양과 질 등의 여러 측면에서 선도적인 위치를 차지했다. 이와 유사한 공예는 은허 이외 에도 텅저우(滕州) 첸장다(前掌大) 묘지, 링스(靈石) 징제(旌介) 묘지, 신간(新干) 다양저 우(大洋洲) 묘지, 후난(湖南) 닝샹(寧鄕) 황차이(黃材) 싼무디(三畝地) 등의 유적지에서 발견되었다. 이와 같은 사실은 상 나라가 핵심 통치 구역에서는 이러한 선진 제옥(製玉) 기술에 대해 어느 정도 기술적인 통제를 시행했지만, 변경 지역과 인접한 다른 문화 지역 에 대해서는 그와는 다른 정책과 교류 방식을 채택했을 가능성이 있음을 시사한다
How does spatial structure affect psychological restoration? A method based on graph neural networks and street view imagery
Exploring spatial heterogeneity in the impact of built environment on taxi ridership using multiscale geographically weighted regression
Long-term impacts of historical education policy on wages in China: Insights on over-education
This article contributes to the discourse on the phenomenon of over-education and its implications for labor misallocation within China. The celebrated Imperial Examination System, initiated in the Sui dynasty and enduring until 1905, cultivated an elite-driven society where educational attainments were paramount. Our study delves into historical Jinshi density data—indicative of the highest accolade in said examinations—coupled with insights fro…
From propaganda to neoliberal consumer culture: The cultural logics of physical activity promotion in Maoist and urban China
1. Introduction As global societies confront rising rates of obesity, inactivity, and aging, the promotion of physical activity has become an urgent public health priority (1). Yet in China, physical activity is not merely a biomedical or behavioral concern—it is a deeply cultural practice, shaped by shifting logics of governance, identity, and aspiration. This opinion article argues that physical activity in China has evolved through three overl…
Quality or quantity of urban greenery: Which matters more to mental health? Evidence from housing prices in the Pearl River Delta
Geography (20 works) · Business (12 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · China (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works)