Anthony G.O. Yeh 葉嘉安
 
Chair Professor
B.A. (HKU), M.Sc. (Asian Institute of Technology), M.R.P., Ph.D. (Syracuse) FHKIP, FRTPI, FRAPI, FCILT, FBCS, RPP, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
 
Fields of interest
Land Use Planning; Urban Renewal; New Towns; Geographic Information Systems; Urban Planning and Development in Hong Kong and China, and S.E. Asia
 

I joined the Centre in 1981 after working as a research officer of the Strategic Planning Unit of the Hong Kong Government. I am now the Dean of the Graduate School, Director of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Centre and Institute of Transport Studies, the Convenor of the Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area of the University. My main areas of specialization are urban development and redevelopment in Hong Kong, China, and SE Asia, and the applications of geographic information systems in urban and regional planning. I have carried out research and published widely in international publications in my research areas. I have been Chairman of the Hong Kong Geographical Association, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP), Vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Programme Director of the Geographic/Land Information Technology Programme of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Founding President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (HKGISA), and Chairman of the Geographic Information Science Commission of the International Geographic Union (IGU). I was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and I am at present Secretary-General of the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) and Asia Geographic Information System Association. I am also honorary professor at various major universities and research institutes in China, including Institute of Geography, Beijing; Tongji University, Shanghai; Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou; and Zhongshan University, Guangzhou. Apart from working in Hong Kong and China, I have done fieldwork in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. I have been invited to attend many expert group meetings of the United Nations Centre of Regional Development (UNCRD) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). I have conducted many CPD training courses on urban planning and management and geographic information systems in Hong Kong and China. I have served on various planning related bodies of the Hong Kong Government. At present I am a member of the editorial board of Environment and Planning B, Computers, Environment and Urban System, Transactions in GIS, Progress in Planning, International Planning Studies and other international journals. I have been a member of the Planners Registration Board, Transport Advisory Committee, Town Planning Appeal Board, Member of the Pan-PRD Panel of the Central Policy Unit and Chairman of the Transport Complaint Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. At present, I am a member of the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance). I have been invited to participate in many expert group meetings on master plans of Chinese cities, such as Guangzhou , Zhuhai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.
 
 
Recent papers:
1. Xu, J. and Yeh, A.G.O. (2010), "Planning Mega-city Regions in China: Rationales and Policies", in Ronald K. Vogel et al. (eds.), Governing Global City Regions in China and the West, Progress in Planning, 73, pp. 17-22.
   
2. Li, X., Zhang, X.H., Yeh, A.G.O., and Liu, X.P. (2010) "Parallel Cellular Automata for Large-scale Urban Simulation Using Load-balancing Techniques", International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24:6, pp. 803-820.
   
3. Yeh, A.G.O. and Li, X. (2009), "Cellular Automata and GIS for Urban Planning", in Marguerite Madden (eds.) Manual of Geographic Information Systems, Bethesda, MD: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, pp. 591-619.
   
4. Xu, J. and Yeh, A.G.O. (2009), “Decoding Urban Land Governance: State Reconstruction in Contemporary Chinese Cities”, Urban Studies, 46:3, pp. 559-581.
   
5. Xu, J., Wu, F. and Yeh, A.G.O. (2009), "Land Commodification: New Land Development and Politics in China Since the late 1990s", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33:4, pp. 890-913.
   
6. Li, X., Yeh, A.G.O., Qian, J.P., Ai, B., and Qi, Z.X. (2009), "A Matching Algorithm for Detecting Land Use Changes Using Case-Based Reasoning", Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75:11, pp. 1319-1332.
   
7. Yue, Y., Yeh, A.G.O. and Li, Q. (2008), "Road Network Model for Vehicle Navigation Using Traffic Direction Approach”, in Ruas, A. and Gold, C. (eds.), Headway in Spatial Data Handling, Berlin: Springer, pp. 613-629.
   
8. Yue, Y. and Yeh, A.G.O. (2008), "Spatial-temporal Traffic Flow Dependency and Short-term Traffic Forecasting”, Environment and Planning B, 35, pp. 762-771.
   
9. Yeh, A.G.O. and Xu, J. (2008), “Regional Cooperation in the Pan-Pearl River Delta: A Formulaic Aspiration or A New Imagination?”, Built Environment, 34:4, pp. 408-426.
   
10.
Li, X., Yeh, A.G.O., Wang, S.G.,et al.(2007).“Regression and Analytical Models for Estimating Mangrove Wetland Biomass in South China Using Radarsat Images”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28:24, pp. 5567-5582
 
   
 
 
 
Teaching
Courses  
Foundation Course Statistics and Quantitative Methods (Semester I)
URBP6017 Geographic Information System (GIS) for Urban and Regional Planning and Development (Semester I)
URBP6900 Research Methods (Semester II)
 
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