Yonghui Chen (MDes CC ’17) along with Longfeng Wu (DDes ’19) and Ruyi Chen (Upenn) won the First Prize and the Second Prize in Shanghai Urban Design Challenge 2017. This award administered by Shanghai Planning and Land Resources Administration Bureau, is one of the biggest and renowned urban design competitions in China. This year, this competition had two sites in Shanghai, both of which challenged competitors to propose urban regeneration strategies to revitalize the districts. Yonghui and the other two students used big data to analyze the issues on sites and proposed plannings and designs centered around people’s everyday activities. In the first site, they put forward a dynamic street upgrade framework responding to different people’s tempo-spatial activity pattern. And in the second site, event-driven waterfront public space revitalization strategies were suggested.
