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Richard Hu is an award-winning urban planner, and an educator and scholar. His work and interests—both intellectual and professional—integrate economy, technology, and space to address contemporary urban transformations and challenges, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Hu is author of five books, and many journal articles and chapters and other forms of publications and communications. His latest book is Smart Design (2021), in which he advances a new way of urban thinking and advocates a new design approach to tackle the emerging smart urbanism. He is the editor of book series Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia.

Hu is currently editing Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities, with contributions by more than 40 authors from around the world. This handbook is a bold, ambitious initiative to advance knowledge of and to inform policy making and planning for the development of Asian cities. It is the first effort of its type that covers every region and every nation across Asia and is the most inclusive of Asian cities—developed and developing, large and small. 

Hu’s research and consultancy are diverse, multidisciplinary, and international. The funders include Australian Research Council (ARC), three tiers of Australian government, the industry, and international agencies, investigating issues of design excellence, global cities, urban competitiveness and sustainability, place-based innovation, and migration. Representative research outputs include Designing the Global City (2018); Global Shanghai Remade (2019).

Prior to academia, Hu was a practitioner and business manager, working on the planning, design, and management of mega urban development projects.  

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Sydney

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