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Dr. Anqi Zhang currently serves as an assistant professor and supervisor of master's theses at the School of Architecture and Art. Her current research interests primarily include urban landscape and its social-environmental impacts such as urban vitality, urban heat island, and air quality, and the application of the geographical open data in urban and environmental studies. She aims to contribute to the field of urban sustainable development by providing an all-around understanding of the measurements, features, impacts, and optimization strategies of the urban landscape.

Anqi received a PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong, a Master’s degree from Peking University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University. Her research has been published in journals including Landscape and Urban Planning, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Selected Publications

• Zhang, A., Li, W., Xia, C., & Guo, H. (2025). The impact of urban landscape patterns on land surface temperature at the street block level : Evidence from 38 big Chinese cities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 110(June 2024), 107673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107673

• Zhang, A., & Xia, C. (2024). A new two-step estimation approach for retrieving surface urban heat island intensity and footprint based on urban-rural temperature gradients. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2024.2385435
  

• Zhang A., Xia, C., & Li, W. (2022). Relationships between 3D urban form and ground-level fine particulate matter at street block level: Evidence from fifteen metropolises in China. Building and Environment, 211, 108745.

• Zhang, A., Xia, C., & Li, W. (2022). Exploring the effects of 3D urban form on urban air quality: Evidence from fifteen megacities in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 78, 103649.

• Zhang, A., Li, W., Wu, J., Lin, J., Chu, J., & Xia, C. (2021). How can the urban landscape affect urban vitality at the street block level? A case study of 15 metropolises in China. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(5), 1245–1262.

• Xia, C., Yeh, A. G. O., & Zhang, A. (2020). Analyzing spatial relationships between urban land use intensity and urban vitality at street block level: A case study of five Chinese megacities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 193, 103669.

• Wu, J., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, A., & Xia, C. (2019). Urban landscape as a spatial representation of land rent: A quantitative analysis. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74, 62–73.

• Zhang, A., Xia, C., Chu, J., Lin, J., Li, W., & Wu, J. (2019). Portraying urban landscape: A quantitative analysis system applied in fifteen metropolises in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 46, 101396.