Xueming LIU

Xueming LIU’s research interests include using multidisciplinary methods to examine the impact of the built environment on human health and behavior; using physiological devices to study the impact and mechanism of the environmental perception on human health.

Research interest: Environment and public health, Environment psychology, Ecopsychology, Urban design, Landscape design

Lab Manager

BEngLS  HIT;  MLA  HIT; PhD candidate in LA HKU

Email: liuxm02@connect.hku.hk

Academic Appointments

Lab manager, Urban Environment and Human Health Lab, the University of Hong Kong, 2021/09-present

Deputy Lab Manager & Senior Research Assistant, Urban Environment and Human Health Lab, the University of Hong Kong, 2019/07-2021/08

Research Assistant, Urban planning and architecture department, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2019/02-2019/05

Awards

University Second-Class Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2019 

University Second-Class Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2017 

University Third-Class Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2013 

Third Prize in Blue Star Cup Architectural Design College Competition, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2013 

University Second-Class Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012 

Excellence Award in Construction festival, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012

Research & Scholarship

Publication

Jiang, B*., Luo, L., Liu, X., Liang, W., Wang, S. (2023). Healthy Landscape and Healthy Residential Landscape: Theoretical Framework and Digital Evaluation System. Chinese Landscape Architecture, 39(2):13-19.

Hu, X., Liu X., Li J., & Jiang, B.* (2022). Creating Restorative Nearby Green Spaces for Knowledge Workers: Theoretical Mechanisms, Site Evaluation Criteria, and Design Guidelines. Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 10(2), 9-35.

Jiang, B., Yang, Y., Chen, L., Liu, X., Wu, X., Chen, B., Webster, C., Sullivan, W. C., Larsen, L., Wang, J., & Lu, Y.* (2022). Green spaces, especially nearby forest, may reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate: A nationwide study in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 104583.

Lu, Y., Chen, L., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Sullivan, W.C., Xu, W., Webster, C., Jiang, B.* (2021). Green space mitigates racial disparity of health: A higher ratio of green spaces indicates a lower racial disparity in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in the USA. Environment International, 152, 106465. 

Jiang, B*., Shen, K., Sullivan, W.C., Yang, Y., Liu, X., Lu, Y. (2021). A natural experiment reveals impacts of built environment on suicide rate: Developing an environmental theroy of suicide. Science of the Total Environment, 776(2021), 145750.

Zhou, Q., Liu, X., Dai, D. (2020). Investigating the influence of street environment characteristics on perceived restoration benefits: A case study in Shenzhen. Journal of Human Settlements in West China, S1, 10-23.

Liu, X., Jiang B., Li, Z. (2020). Landscape design of digital economy office park to promote research & development staff’s health and well-being: Theories, Strategies, and Approaches. South Architecture, 2020(4), 48-55. 

Yang, Y., Dong, Y., Liu, X., & Jiang, B. *(2020). Investigating the urban central waterfront space from the perspective of healthy city: theoretical mechanisms, scientific evidence, and critical Characteristics. Shanghai Urban Planning Review, 2020(02), 57-64.

Conference

Yang, Y., Dong, Y., Liu, X., & Jiang, B. (2020). Impacts of Planning and Design of Landscape Elements on Human Behaviors: An Observational Study of Urban Waterfront Space in China. 14th IACP in Shenzhen. January, 2021.

Government Report

Jiang, B., Liu, X. (2020). The key urban green landscape: theories, strategies, and cases. International Urban Planning Development Report, 35, 42-67. [Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources. Research Report. In Chinese].

Jiang, B., Yang, Y., Dong, Y., Lan, L., Liu, X. (2020). Investigating the Urban Central Waterfront Space from the Perspective of Healthy City: Theoretical Mechanisms, Scientific Evidence, and Critical Strategies. In the research project Spatial intervention and management of jiangbei district in ningbo from the perspective of landscape architecture: using the east bank of the old bund as an example. [Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau of Jiangbei District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. In Chinese]

Design Project

Campus walk system research and central park design of University: A case study in Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2017/06-2018/06 

  • Assistant Urban Designer    

  • Urban Design and Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

Riverside Landscape Leisure Belt in Nuonan City, Shaanxi province, China, 2015/09-2016/01

  • Assistant Landscape Designer

  • Tshinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, Beijing, China

Knowledge Exchange

Exhibitions

Urban humanistic data: Quantitative observation and analysis of human behavior in urban central waterfront space.  in 2019 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE, Shenzhen.

  • Role: Co-author, Presentation and on-site installation management 2019/10-2019/12

Invisible Space: Design Based on the Hidden Logic of Urban Environments.in 2019 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE, Shenzhen.
  • Role: Curator assistant and on-site installation management 2019/10-2019/12

Teaching Assiatant

ARCH7131  Landscape Peripheries Studio. (in The University of Hong Kong), 2021/09-2021/11 

ARCH7342 Environmental Psychology, Behavior, And Well-Being: Theory, Scientific Evidence, And Design Applications. (in The University of Hong Kong), 2019/09-2019/11  

ARCH4703 Landscape and Design in China. (in The University of Hong Kong), 2020/09-2020/11

Workshop Experience

DigitalFUTURES world workshops. Imaging Landscape: Computer Vision and Landscape Perception workshop 2020/06 

Reconstruction Priority Selection Model for Siheyuan in Baitasi, Beijing 2018/07 

Summer workshop: INDEXING: Three-Dimensional Data Analysis and Visualization, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 2017/07