June 4, 2009
University of Maryland professor to chair Urban Design & Planning
Qing Shen, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, has been named chairman and professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, pending approval by UW President Mark Emmert and the Board of Regents.
Shen’s expertise includes urban economics, transportation planning, statistical methods and geographic information systems. His current interests include alternative patterns of urban growth and the ways in which information technologies are shaping cities, particularly their responses to environmental change.
Shen holds degrees from Zhejiang University in China, the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, the latter where he earned his doctorate in city and regional planning. Before taking the job at Maryland, Shen served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
