Dr. Yan Tang

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
Keywords	Urban and rural planning, Urban governance, Strategic planning, Urban Design, Urban regeneration
Honours and awards	2020: 1nd Prize, Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Projects of China, Urban Planning Association of China 2019: Excellent Responsible Planner (Community Planner), Beijing Urban Planning Society 2019: 2nd Prize, Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Projects of Beijing, Beijing Urban Planning Society 2019: 3nd Prize, Excellent Survey Reports, Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources 2018: 1st Prize, Beijing Teaching Achievement Awards of High Education, Beijing Municipal Education Commission 2018: 2nd Prize, Excellent Survey Reports, Beijing Planning and Land-resource Commission 2017: Best Track Paper, Best Congress Paper nominee, the AESOP 2017 Congress, Lisbon 2016: Honourable Paper Award, JIN-Jingchang Outstanding Paper Awards of Urban Planning of China 2016: Winner, International Urban Design Competition of Tongzhou, the Sub-Center of Beijing (AECOM-Tsinghua joint team) 2014: 3rd Prize, Excellent Paper Awards of 2014 Conference of China Urban Economy Association 2013: Beijing Talent Youth, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education 2012: 2nd Prize, Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Projects of China, Urban Planning Association of China 2011: 1st Prize, Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Projects of Beijing, Beijing Urban Planning Society 2009: Honourable Paper Award, National Youth Urban Planning Paper Contest, Urban Planning Society of China 2009: 1st Prize, Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Projects of Hebei Province, Urban Planning Association of Hebei Province 2007: German Chancellor Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany 2004: Excellent Paper Award, “Qiushi” National Planning Paper Contest, Urban Planning Society of China

Current contact address

Country	People's Republic of China
City	Beijing
Institution	Tsinghua University
Institute	Department of City Planning

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Klaus R. Kunzmann	Institut für Raumplanung, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund
Start of initial sponsorship	01/09/2007

Programme(s)

2007	German Chancellor Fellowship Programme for prospective leaders from the People's Republic of China

Publications (partial selection)

2008	Yan Tang: Network of Polycentric Metropolis in Europe: Introduction of `the Polycentric Metropolis, Learning from Mega-Regions in Europe. (chinesisch). In: Urban Planning International , 2008, 124-126
2008	Yan Tang: Polycentricity and Spatial Planning (chinesisch). In: Urban Planning International, 2008, 89-92
2008	Yan Tang, Klaus R. Kunzmann: The Evolution of Spatial Planning for Beijing. In: Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 2008, 457-469