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Biography
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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Designing Global Sydney: The negotiation of public and private interests-vIA UNSW
30/01/15 → 1/11/17
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Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective
Hu, R., Mar 2020, In: Australian Journal of Social Issues. 55, 2, p. 201-217 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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COVID-19, smart work, and collaborative space: A crisis-opportunity perspective
Hu, R., 2020, In: Journal of Urban Management. p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Locating knowledge in Australian cities: The Knowledge City Index
Pratchett, L., Walsh, M., Hu, R. & Tuli, S., 15 Jan 2020, Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity: Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond. Van Luyn, A. & de la Fuente, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Oxon: Routledge, p. 142-158 17 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review
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Reinventing community in COVID-19: a case in Canberra, Australia
Hu, R., 25 Jun 2020, In: Socio-Ecological Practice Research. p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Remaking the border: the proposed border expansion of Canberra in the 1960–70s revisited in the planning and development context of the 21st century
Hu, R., 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Planning Perspectives. p. 1-28 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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Urban design in San Francisco: Innovation, contestation, and critique
Richard Hu (Speaker)
9 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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The Nationalist Planning of Greater Shanghai: 1927– 1949
Richard Hu (Speaker)
12 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk