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- Ph.D. , University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK - 2012
- M.Arch , Department of Architecture, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan - 2003
- BSc (Hons) , Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan - 1996
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- Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2016 to Present
- Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University - 2016
- Lecturer, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - 2011 to 2016
- Postgraduate Research Assistant, Urban Design Research Group, Departmetn of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham - 2010 to 2011
- Design Studio Tutor, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham - 2007 to 2009
- Project Designer, Yan-Liang Lin Architect & Associates - 2004 to 2005
- Interior Designer, Sustainable Design House - 2003 to 2005
- Research Assistant, Department of Architecture, Tunghai University - 1999 to 2003
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Architecture, Tunghai University - 1999 to 2000
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- urban conservation and heritage-led regeneration
- 20th-century heritage conservation
- industrial heritage and adaptive reuse
- historic rural landscape and community-based tourism development
- uncomfortable heritage and dark tourism
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- Wang, Yi-Wen and Wang, Xiangyi (2018) “Industrial Heritage Valorisation and Creative Industry Proliferation in Shanghai's Urban Regeneration”, Built Heritage, vol. 2, no. 2, pp.76-92.
- Kim, Joon Sik and Wang, Yi-Wen, (2018) “Tourism Identity in Social Media: the Case of Suzhou, a Chinese Historic City”, Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, vol. 2, no. 1, pp.63-80.
- Pendlebury, John, Wang, Yi-Wen & Law, Andrew (2017) 'Re-Using “Uncomfortable Heritage”: The Case of the 1933 Building, Shanghai', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 211-229.
- Wang, Yi-Wen (2016) 'Post-War Modernity as Embodied in the Chung-Hsing New Village, Taiwan', Journal of Art and Design, no. 6, pp. 43-78.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Pendlebury, John (2016) “The Modern Abattoir as a Machine for Killing: The Municipal Abattoir of the Shanghai International Settlement, 1933”, Architectural Research Quarterly, Vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 131-144.
- Wang, Yiwen & Heath, Tim 2011 'Reconceptualising Heritage Conservation for 20th-Century Architecture', Journal of Art and Design, vol. 1, no. , p. 1-30
- Wang, Yiwen & Heath, T 2010 ''Towards Garden City Wonderlands: New Town Planning in 1950s Taiwan', Planning Perspectives, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 141-169
- Wang, Yiwen & Heath, T 2008 ''Constructions of National Identity: A Tale of Twin Capital Building in Early Post-War Taiwan', Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, vol. 2, no. , p. 21-46
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- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim, “Individual Architectural Merit, Collective Urban Presence: Mapping the Fading Post-War Cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan”, the 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute, Évora, Portugal, 22-26 June 2010. Published in R. Amoêda, S. Lira & C.Pinheiro (eds), Heritage 2010: Heritage and Sustainable Development, vol. 2, Green Lines Institute, Barcelos, pp. 1237-1246. [ISBN 9789899567139 (hbk)]
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- Lei, Cheng, Cao, Kunzi, Fang, Yao & Wang, Yiwen (Eds) (2016) Revitalisation of Historic City – Design Proposals for Pingjiang Historic District in Suzhou: Outcomes of the Joint Graduate Design Studio. (China Building Industry Press) [ISBN 97817112184743 (hbk)].
- Verdini, Giulio, Wang, Yiwen & Zhang, Xionan (Eds) (2016). Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, dimensions and management challenges. (Abingdon: Routledge). [ISBN 9781472443571 (hbk); 97813155489139 (ebk)].
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- Wang, Yiwen 2016, 'Rural Regeneration in Yangtze River Delta: the challenge and potential for rural heritage tourism development'' in (eds) Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, dimensions and management challenges, Routledge, pp. 81-108
- Wang, Yiwen 2011, ''The Revival of the Modern Movement in the 21st Century: The Conservation of 20th-Century Modernist Legacies' in (eds) After Modernity, Garden City, pp. 49-60
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- Wang, Yi Wen (2018) ‘Architectural Narratives of the Uncomfortable Past: the Case of Modern Slaughterhouse Reuse’, paper presented to the 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018: Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China, Suzhou, 6-9 September 2018.
- Wang, Yi Wen, Craig, Paul, Manley, Andrew, Kim, Joon Sik, Chen, Gang (2018) ‘Smart APPs for Museum Visitor Studies: the Use of Technology for Collecting and Visualising Visitor Behavioural and Tracking Data’ , paper presented to the 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018: Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China, Suzhou, 6-9 September 2018.
- Manley, Andrew, Chung, Lo-Yun, Wang, Yi-Wen, Bailey, Rebecca and Silk, Michael (2018) ‘Understanding the ‘Experiential Value’ of Heritage Assets: Acquiring Insights and Perceptions from Chinese Visitors’, paper presented to the 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018: Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China, Suzhou, 6-9 September 2018.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Huang, Feiran (2018) ‘China’s Socialist Past vs. Social Values: the Case for Conserving Post-1949 Worker’s Housing and Commune Heritage’, paper presented to the 4th Biannual Conference of Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS): Heritage across Borders, Hangzhou, 1-6 September 2018.
- Manley, Andrew, Chung, Lo-Yun, Bailey, Rebecca, Wang, Yi-Wen & Silk, Michael (2018) ‘Producing and Consuming ‘Romantic Scotland’: Using Exhibitions as a Mode of Representational Power’, paper presented to the 4th Biannual Conference of Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS): Heritage across Borders, Hangzhou, 1-6 September 2018.
- Wang, Yi-Wen (2018) ‘Ethics of reuse – the Reuse of Modern Slaughterhouses and the Shanghai Municipal Abattoir, 1933’, paper presented to the 6th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development (Heritage 2018), Granada, 12-15 June 2018.
- Wang, Yi Wen & Nolf, Christian (2017) ‘Defining Water Heritage of Yangtze River Delta, Significance, Threats and Spatial Strategy for Historic Settlements and Landscapes of Tai Lake Basin’, keynote speech to the conference on Risks to Life, Heritage, and Community on the Yangtze River’, Newcastle, 4-6 December 2017.
- Kim, Joon Sik & Wang, Yi Wen (2017) ‘Tourism Identity in Social Media: the Case of a Chinese Historic City, Suzhou’, paper presented to The AESOP Annual Congress, Lisbon, 11-14 July 2017.
- Wang, Yi Wen & Huang, Feiran (2017) ‘China’s Authorized Heritage Discourse on the Recent Past – Deciphering the Nomination of 20th-century Heritage of China’, paper presented to the 3rd International Conference on "Changing Cities", Syros, 26-30 June 2017.
- Wang, Yi Wen & Pendlebury, John (2016) ‘The Conversion of the Shanghai Municipal Abattoir, 1933: Slaughterhouse as “Perpetrator” Heritage, Site of Collective Amnesia’, the 2016 International Symposium on Reclaiming Identity and (Re)Materialising Pasts – Approaches to Heritage Conservation in China, Suzhou, 6-8 April 2016.
- Wang, Yi Wen & Pendlebury, John (2015) '1933 Building, Shanghai: A Machine for Killing, a Machine for Consumption', paper presented to the International Conference – Heritage of Death: Landscapes, Sentiment and Practice, Stockholm, 10-11 September 2015, pp 44.
- Wang, Yi Wen, Zhang, Xiaonan & Sun, Lei (2015) 'Valuing Workers' Housing as Heritage of Post-Liberation China? – Measuring Public Perception of Caoyang New Village, Shanghai', paper presented to STREMAH 2015 – the 14th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture, A Coruña, 13-15 July 2015.
- Wang, Yi Wen & Pendlebury, John (2014) 'The Modern Abattoir as a Machine for Killing: The Municipal Abattoir of the Shanghai International Settlement, 1933', paper presented to AHRA 2014, The 11th International Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference – Industrial of Architecture, Newcastle upon Tyne, 13 -15 November 2014.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Wang, Xiangyi (2014) ‘Reindustrialising Shanghai with Culture and Creativity: Industrial Heritage Valorisation vis-à-vis Creative Industry Clusters Development’, paper presented to The City Future III – Cities as Strategic Places and Players in a Globalized World, Paris, 18-20 June 2014.
- Wang, Yi-Wen, Zhang, Xiaonan & Sun, Lei (2013) 'Measuring the Public Perception of Post-War Housing Heritage – the Case of Caoyang New Village, Shanghai', paper presented to The AESOP-ACSP Joint Congress 2013 – Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions, Dublin, 15-19 July 2013.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Verdini, Giulio (2012) 'The Role of Heritage in Rural Regeneration: The Challenge and Potential for Rural Heritage Tourism Development in the Countryside around Suzhou, China', paper presented to The AESOP 26th Annual Congress Planning to Achieve / Planning to Avoid: the Need for New Discourses and Practices in Spatial Development and Planning, Ankara, 11-15 July 2012.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Verdini, Giulio (2011) 'Heritage-Led Rural Regeneration: A New Dawn in China?' paper presented to the 8th lALE World Congress: Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture, Beijing, 18-23 August 2011, pp. 564.
- Verdini, Giulio & Wang, Yi-Wen (2011) 'Planning the Urban Fringe: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Limits in China', paper presented to the 8th lALE World Congress: Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture, Beijing, 18-23 August 2011, pp. 544.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim (2011) “Stigmatized Post-War, ‘Alien’ Post-Independent: Lacuna in ‘Modern’ Asian Architecture Conservation”, East Asian Architectural Culture International Conference: South of East Asia - Re-addressing East Asian Architecture and Urbanism, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 12-14 May 2011, pp. 32.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim (2010) “Individual Architectural Merit, Collective Urban Presence: Mapping the Fading Post-War Cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan”, the 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute, Évora, Portugal, 22-26 June 2010. Published in R. Amoêda, S. Lira & C.Pinheiro (eds), Heritage 2010: Heritage and Sustainable Development, vol. 2, Green Lines Institute, Barcelos, pp. 1237-1246.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim (2009) “Between Adaptability and Authenticity: Design Intervention in the Conservation of Interwar and Post-War Housing in England”, the 5th International Conference on Planning and Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 25-29 May 2009.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim (2008) “Towards Garden City Wonderlands: New Town Planning in 1950s Taiwan”, the 4th Joint Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP): Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City, ACSP & AESOP, Chicago, USA, 6-11 July 2008, pp. 81.
- Wang, Yi-Wen & Heath, Tim (2007) “Prospective and Retrospective Construction of National Identity: Tale of Twin Capital Building in Early Post-War Taiwan”, Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture, University College London, London, UK, 4-5 December 2007, pp 8.
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- Bailey, Rebecca, Silk, Michael, Manley, Andrew & Wang, Yiwen 2016, Co-Investigator, Producing/Consuming 'Romantic Scotland': Exhibitions, Heritage, Nation & the Chinese Market, , Art and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK
- Kim, Joon Sik & Wang, Yiwen 2016, Co-Investigator, Mapping Suzhou's Digital Tourism Identity in Social Media: a Smart Tourism Approach for a Unique International Tourism Identity, , 2016 Suzhou Social Science Program
- Kim, Joon Sik & Wang, Yiwen 2016, Co-Investigator, Sense of Place in the Digital Age: Analyzing Social Media for Urban Planning, , Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Wang, Yiwen 2015, Principal Investigator, Discordant Use of Heritage: The case of Shanghai Municipal Council Abattoir, 1933, 0.0000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Wang, Yiwen 2014, Principal Investigator, A Machine for Killing – Archival Research on Shanghai Municipal Council Abattoir, 1933, 6000.0000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Verdini, G. & Wang, Yiwen 2013, Co-Investigator, When local meets Global: Urban Fringe Planning and Institutional Management, , 2013 Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Funding Programme
- Wang, Yiwen 2013, Principal Investigator, Community-based Rural Regeneration and Tourism Development: A Case Study on Yangwan Ancient Village in the Tai Lake Region, 6000.0000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Wang, Yiwen 2012, Principal Investigator, Research on Housing Problem of Rural Migrant Workers in Suzhou, 5700.0000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Verdini, Giulio & Wang, Yiwen 2012, Co-Investigator, Planning a 'local food system' in Suzhou: analysing the demand for quality of food and agriculture, , 2012 Suzhou Social Science Program
- Wang, Yiwen & Verdini, Giulio 2012, Principal Investigator, Towards an effective Integration of urban-rural tourism: mapping agritourism development on Suzhou urban fringe, 0.0000, Suzhou Social Science Programme
- Wang, Yiwen 2012, Principal Investigator, Bridging the Divide between Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Practice of Urban Planning and Design, 5100.0000, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), XJTLU
- Wang, Yiwen & Zhang, Xiaonan 2011, Principal Investigator, Measuring the public perception of post-war housing heritage: the case of Caoyang New Village, Shanghai, 32820.0000, Research Development Fund (RDF), XJTLU
- Verdini, Giulio & Wang, Yiwen 2011, Co-Investigator, Assigning open-space non market values as a tool for planning the urban-rural fringe in Suzhou, , 2011 Social Science Program of Suzhou
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- UPDCDE404 Heritage, Historic Districts and Conservation
- UPDCDE407 Place Making and Urban Design
- UPDCDE409 Dissertation
- UPDCDE002 Introduction to Urban Planning & Design
- UPDCDE101 Issues and Practice of Planning in China I
- UPDCDE106 Issues and Practice of Planning in China II
- UPDCDE109 History and Purpose of Planning
- UPDCDE202 Rural Planning
- UPDCDE205 Planning Methodology
- UPDCDE207 Spatial Design and the Built Environment I
- UPDCDE305 Final Year Project and Dissertation
- UPDCDE306 Urban Design Project
- UPDCDE307 Urban Design
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Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District
Suzhou Industrial Park
Suzhou
P.R.China
215123