Yingling Fan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yingling Fan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yingling |
| FAMILY NAME | Fan |
| SIGNATURE | FAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0500-4804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Unpacking the Association of Multiple Urban Infrastructures with Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Three Measures
Planners seek to understand how physical infrastructure and social provisioning systems shape subjective well-being (SWB) of urban residents. However, unpacking this relationship has been challenging due to complex social, ecological, and infrastructural linkages, and the use of different measures of well-being across diverse studies. In this paper, for the first time, we compare three measures of evaluative and emotional SWB employing a consiste…
Urban transport as a social construct: Theory, evidence, and analytical threads
This special issue emerges from the Urban Studies journal’s Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies initiative and features the development and application of a transport-as-a-social-construct framework. The collection of articles demonstrates the framework’s conceptual breadth as well as its empirical relevance across diverse geographic contexts and transport modes. We begin by outlining three conceptual articles that establish key the…
Urban transport as a social construct: Reimagining transport’s role in urban studies
This essay seeks to cultivate a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social dimensions of urban transport. Through a historical account of theoretical developments and an overview of contemporary trends, we propose a framework for conceptualising urban transport as a social construct. This perspective encourages a shift away from seeing transport as physical and spatial entities to emphasising the complex social dynamics that underpin the…
Personalizing the dichotomy of fixed and flexible activities in everyday life: Deriving prism anchors from GPS-enabled survey data
Comparing happiness associated with household and community gardening: Implications for food action planning
Municipal food action planning promotes local food production based on presumed environmental, health, equity, and well-being benefits. However, little is known about the well-being benefits of household versus community-scale agricultural gardening. This exploratory study in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, USA, presents a first direct comparison of happiness (net affect, average happiness, and average meaningfulness) associated with agricultural …
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society
COVID-19 had sudden and dramatic impacts on the organisation and governance of urban life. In Part 2 of this Special Issue on public health emergencies we question the extent to which the pandemic ushered in fundamentally new understandings of urban public health, noting that ideas of urban pathology and the relation of dirt, disease and danger in cities, have long informed practices of planning. Emphasising important continuities in the way pand…
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the Covid-city
COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts on urban life on a global scale, representing the worst pandemic in living memory. In this introduction to the first of two parts of a Special Issue on urban public health emergencies, we suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak, and associated attempts to manage the pandemic, reproduced and ultimately exacerbated the social and spatial divides that striate the contemporary city. Here, we draw on evidence from the…
Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools
This report examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Findings show that international students often face alienation and structural barriers to navigating universities and living in an unfamiliar culture, along with identity ambiguity, inadequate career se…
Understanding subjective well-being: Perspectives from psychology and public health
Is gardening associated with greater happiness of urban residents? A multi-activity, dynamic assessment in the Twin-Cities region, USA
As cities seek to become more livable and environment-friendly, activities like bicycling, walking, and urban gardening (household and community-gardening) are receiving much attention. However, few field studies have measured well-being of urban gardening, particularly during household gardening. Our study develops protocols to measure emotional well-being (EWB) reported during household gardening, comparing it with other leisure and day-to-day …
Are low income children more physically active when they live in homes with bigger yards? A longitudinal analysis of the NET-Works Study
Expanding the positive utility of travel through weeklong tracking: Within-person and multi-environment variability of ideal travel time
Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship between the Built Environment and Active Travel in the Twin Cities
Active travel is important to public health and the environment. Previous studies substantiate built environment influences active travel, but they seldom assess its overall contribution. Most of the studies assume that built environment characteristics have linear associations with active travel. This study uses Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to explore nonlinear relationships between the built environment and active travel in the Twin Cities.…
Examining threshold effects of built environment elements on travel-related carbon-dioxide emissions
Multidimensional visualization of transit smartcard data using space–time plots and data cubes
Decade-long changes in spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Are disadvantaged populations better or worse off
Although recent studies have extended the U.S.-centered spatial mismatch hypothesis to Chinese cities, few have examined spatial mismatch conditions over time in Chinese Cities. This research responds to the knowledge gap by using longitudinal data to examine changes in the patterns and magnitudes of spatial mismatch between the 2000s and 2010s in Beijing, China. The longitudinal examination uniquely focuses on spatial mismatch between population…
Household structure and gender differences in travel time: Spouse/partner presence, parenthood, and breadwinner status
Spatial or socioeconomic inequality? Job accessibility changes for low- and high-education population in Beijing, China
Park-Use Behavior and Perceptions by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Immigrant Status in Minneapolis, MN: Implications on Park Strategies for Addressing Health Disparities
Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
The National Highway System of the United States has been called the Greatest Public Works Project in American history. By focusing on urban freeways—not freeways between cities but freeways in and
Spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Implications of job accessibility for Chinese low-wage workers
Streetcars and Recovery: An Analysis of Post-Katrina Building Permits around New Orleans Streetcar Lines
Researching traditional streetcars’ development impacts is challenging: most U.S. lines operate in downtown areas with many development stimuli. This article addresses that challenge through analysis of New Orleans building permits after Hurricane Katrina. We estimate how post-Katrina permit frequency changes with distance from streetcar stops, controlling for damage, proximity to commercial areas, and pre-Katrina demographics. We find that dista…
Family functioning as a mediator between neighborhood conditions and children's health: Evidence from a national survey in the United States
Neighborhood green, social support, physical activity, and stress: Assessing the cumulative impact
Household Excess Travel and Neighbourhood Characteristics: Associations and Trade-offs
This study proposes an alternative approach to estimate excess travel using activity diaries, extending it to non-work travel and capturing interhousehold variation. Central to this approach is a residential relocation exercise that helps to decompose the amount of travel by a household into two types of travel: required and excess travel. An empirical demonstration of the approach in North Carolina shows that on average 30 per cent of households…
Neighborhood green, social support, physical activity, and stress: Assessing the cumulative impact
Spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Implications of job accessibility for Chinese low-wage workers
Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship between the Built Environment and Active Travel in the Twin Cities
Active travel is important to public health and the environment. Previous studies substantiate built environment influences active travel, but they seldom assess its overall contribution. Most of the studies assume that built environment characteristics have linear associations with active travel. This study uses Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to explore nonlinear relationships between the built environment and active travel in the Twin Cities.…
Spatial or socioeconomic inequality? Job accessibility changes for low- and high-education population in Beijing, China
Family functioning as a mediator between neighborhood conditions and children's health: Evidence from a national survey in the United States
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the Covid-city
COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts on urban life on a global scale, representing the worst pandemic in living memory. In this introduction to the first of two parts of a Special Issue on urban public health emergencies, we suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak, and associated attempts to manage the pandemic, reproduced and ultimately exacerbated the social and spatial divides that striate the contemporary city. Here, we draw on evidence from the…
Is Sprawl Associated with a Widening Urban–Suburban Mortality Gap
Decade-long changes in spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Are disadvantaged populations better or worse off
Although recent studies have extended the U.S.-centered spatial mismatch hypothesis to Chinese cities, few have examined spatial mismatch conditions over time in Chinese Cities. This research responds to the knowledge gap by using longitudinal data to examine changes in the patterns and magnitudes of spatial mismatch between the 2000s and 2010s in Beijing, China. The longitudinal examination uniquely focuses on spatial mismatch between population…
Reexamining Contemporary Urbanism in the United States: Convenient Mix of the Old and New
This paper introduces a unique approach for characterizing contemporary urban dynamics in US cities and metropolitan areas. The proposed approach utilizes a socially and spatially integrated framework, and combines the traditional factorial ecology analysis with a novel spatial interpolation technique. The approach is demonstrated on a mid-size, decentralized metropolitan area in the US. It is found that agglomeration, sprawl, gentrification, and…
Household Excess Travel and Neighbourhood Characteristics: Associations and Trade-offs
This study proposes an alternative approach to estimate excess travel using activity diaries, extending it to non-work travel and capturing interhousehold variation. Central to this approach is a residential relocation exercise that helps to decompose the amount of travel by a household into two types of travel: required and excess travel. An empirical demonstration of the approach in North Carolina shows that on average 30 per cent of households…
Urban transport as a social construct: Reimagining transport’s role in urban studies
This essay seeks to cultivate a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social dimensions of urban transport. Through a historical account of theoretical developments and an overview of contemporary trends, we propose a framework for conceptualising urban transport as a social construct. This perspective encourages a shift away from seeing transport as physical and spatial entities to emphasising the complex social dynamics that underpin the…
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society
COVID-19 had sudden and dramatic impacts on the organisation and governance of urban life. In Part 2 of this Special Issue on public health emergencies we question the extent to which the pandemic ushered in fundamentally new understandings of urban public health, noting that ideas of urban pathology and the relation of dirt, disease and danger in cities, have long informed practices of planning. Emphasising important continuities in the way pand…
Expanding the positive utility of travel through weeklong tracking: Within-person and multi-environment variability of ideal travel time
Is Sprawl Associated with a Widening Urban–Suburban Mortality Gap
Reexamining Contemporary Urbanism in the United States: Convenient Mix of the Old and New
This paper introduces a unique approach for characterizing contemporary urban dynamics in US cities and metropolitan areas. The proposed approach utilizes a socially and spatially integrated framework, and combines the traditional factorial ecology analysis with a novel spatial interpolation technique. The approach is demonstrated on a mid-size, decentralized metropolitan area in the US. It is found that agglomeration, sprawl, gentrification, and…
Neighborhood green, social support, physical activity, and stress: Assessing the cumulative impact
Household Excess Travel and Neighbourhood Characteristics: Associations and Trade-offs
This study proposes an alternative approach to estimate excess travel using activity diaries, extending it to non-work travel and capturing interhousehold variation. Central to this approach is a residential relocation exercise that helps to decompose the amount of travel by a household into two types of travel: required and excess travel. An empirical demonstration of the approach in North Carolina shows that on average 30 per cent of households…
Family functioning as a mediator between neighborhood conditions and children's health: Evidence from a national survey in the United States
Streetcars and Recovery: An Analysis of Post-Katrina Building Permits around New Orleans Streetcar Lines
Researching traditional streetcars’ development impacts is challenging: most U.S. lines operate in downtown areas with many development stimuli. This article addresses that challenge through analysis of New Orleans building permits after Hurricane Katrina. We estimate how post-Katrina permit frequency changes with distance from streetcar stops, controlling for damage, proximity to commercial areas, and pre-Katrina demographics. We find that dista…
Spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Implications of job accessibility for Chinese low-wage workers
Park-Use Behavior and Perceptions by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Immigrant Status in Minneapolis, MN: Implications on Park Strategies for Addressing Health Disparities
Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
The National Highway System of the United States has been called the Greatest Public Works Project in American history. By focusing on urban freeways—not freeways between cities but freeways in and
Household structure and gender differences in travel time: Spouse/partner presence, parenthood, and breadwinner status
Spatial or socioeconomic inequality? Job accessibility changes for low- and high-education population in Beijing, China
Multidimensional visualization of transit smartcard data using space–time plots and data cubes
Decade-long changes in spatial mismatch in Beijing, China: Are disadvantaged populations better or worse off
Although recent studies have extended the U.S.-centered spatial mismatch hypothesis to Chinese cities, few have examined spatial mismatch conditions over time in Chinese Cities. This research responds to the knowledge gap by using longitudinal data to examine changes in the patterns and magnitudes of spatial mismatch between the 2000s and 2010s in Beijing, China. The longitudinal examination uniquely focuses on spatial mismatch between population…
Examining threshold effects of built environment elements on travel-related carbon-dioxide emissions
Understanding subjective well-being: Perspectives from psychology and public health
Is gardening associated with greater happiness of urban residents? A multi-activity, dynamic assessment in the Twin-Cities region, USA
As cities seek to become more livable and environment-friendly, activities like bicycling, walking, and urban gardening (household and community-gardening) are receiving much attention. However, few field studies have measured well-being of urban gardening, particularly during household gardening. Our study develops protocols to measure emotional well-being (EWB) reported during household gardening, comparing it with other leisure and day-to-day …
Are low income children more physically active when they live in homes with bigger yards? A longitudinal analysis of the NET-Works Study
Expanding the positive utility of travel through weeklong tracking: Within-person and multi-environment variability of ideal travel time
Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship between the Built Environment and Active Travel in the Twin Cities
Active travel is important to public health and the environment. Previous studies substantiate built environment influences active travel, but they seldom assess its overall contribution. Most of the studies assume that built environment characteristics have linear associations with active travel. This study uses Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to explore nonlinear relationships between the built environment and active travel in the Twin Cities.…
Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools
This report examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Findings show that international students often face alienation and structural barriers to navigating universities and living in an unfamiliar culture, along with identity ambiguity, inadequate career se…
Comparing happiness associated with household and community gardening: Implications for food action planning
Municipal food action planning promotes local food production based on presumed environmental, health, equity, and well-being benefits. However, little is known about the well-being benefits of household versus community-scale agricultural gardening. This exploratory study in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, USA, presents a first direct comparison of happiness (net affect, average happiness, and average meaningfulness) associated with agricultural …
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society
COVID-19 had sudden and dramatic impacts on the organisation and governance of urban life. In Part 2 of this Special Issue on public health emergencies we question the extent to which the pandemic ushered in fundamentally new understandings of urban public health, noting that ideas of urban pathology and the relation of dirt, disease and danger in cities, have long informed practices of planning. Emphasising important continuities in the way pand…
Urban public health emergencies and the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the Covid-city
COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts on urban life on a global scale, representing the worst pandemic in living memory. In this introduction to the first of two parts of a Special Issue on urban public health emergencies, we suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak, and associated attempts to manage the pandemic, reproduced and ultimately exacerbated the social and spatial divides that striate the contemporary city. Here, we draw on evidence from the…
Personalizing the dichotomy of fixed and flexible activities in everyday life: Deriving prism anchors from GPS-enabled survey data
Urban transport as a social construct: Reimagining transport’s role in urban studies
This essay seeks to cultivate a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social dimensions of urban transport. Through a historical account of theoretical developments and an overview of contemporary trends, we propose a framework for conceptualising urban transport as a social construct. This perspective encourages a shift away from seeing transport as physical and spatial entities to emphasising the complex social dynamics that underpin the…
Geography (19 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Transport engineering (7 works)