Rate My Professor Sun Sheng Han

Professor Han's research interests center on urban and regional development, strategic planning, analytical methods in urban studies, urbanization, regional planning, and Asian cities, particularly linking spatial urban organization to institutional and economic restructuring in the Pacific-Asia region. He has edited prominent books including Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (Springer, 2015, with Tai-Chee Wong and Hongmei Zhang) and contributed chapters to Institutions, Culture and the Chinese City (Edward Elgar Publishing). Selected key publications are "Land Acquisition in Transitional Hanoi, Vietnam" (Urban Studies, 2008), "Global City Making in Singapore: A Real Estate Perspective," "More Parks, More Justice? Unpacking Distributional and Recognitional Justice in Shanghai’s Urban Greening Policies" (with Yuan Lu and Judy Bush), and "Transformative Resilience of Wuhan’s City-Center Main Streets in the Post-COVID Era" (with Fujie Rao et al.). His scholarship garners over 4,400 citations on Google Scholar across more than 100 publications. Professor Han leads the Australia/China Research Network on Planning Global City-Regions, supervises graduate students, engages in fundraising and international collaborations, and contributes to public discourse on urban planning topics.