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Bin Jiang

Research presentation

Bin Jiang

Professor, PhD in geographic information systems, M.Sc. in remote sensing and computer cartography, B.Sc. in cartography

Research subject: Geography
Research domain: Geospatial information sciences

Email: bin.jiang@hig.se
Telephone: +46 26 84 89 01

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Bin Jiang is an independent-minded researcher, and have pioneered a series of novel concepts, methods and tools not only for better understanding urban structure and dynamics, but also for making and remaking the built environment towards sustainability.

http://giscience.hig.se/binjiang/

CURRENT RESEARCH

Scholarly articles, refereed

Ren, Z., Seipel, S. & Jiang, B. (2024). A topology-based approach to identifying urban centers in America using multi-source geospatial big data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 107. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.102045 [More information]

Ren, Z., Seipel, S. & Jiang, B. (2023). A topological approach to identify urban centres in America using multi-source geospatial big data. . [Submitted] [More information]

Jiang, B. & de Rijke, C. (2023). Living Images: A Recursive Approach to Computing the Structural Beauty of Images or the Livingness of Space. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113 (6), 1329-1347. 10.1080/24694452.2023.2178376 [More information]

Levin, T., Sjöberg, S., Jiang, B. & Barthel, S. (2023). Social Sustainability and Alexander’s Living Structure Through a New Kind of City Science. Urban Planning, 8 (3), 224-234. 10.17645/up.v8i3.6841 [More information]

Xu, Z. & Jiang, B. (2022). Effects of social vulnerability and spatial accessibility on COVID-19 vaccination coverage: A census-tract level study in Milwaukee County, USA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (19). 10.3390/ijerph191912304 [More information]

Hu, B., Fu, S., Luo, J., Lin, H., Yin, Q., Tao, V., Jiang, B., Zuo, L. & Meng, Y. (2022). Geographical detector-based assessment of multi-level explanatory powers of determinants on China’s medical-service resumption during the COVID-19 epidemic. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083221143122 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2022). Geography as a science of the earth’s surface founded on the third view of space. Annals of GIS, 28 (1), 31-43. 10.1080/19475683.2021.1966502 [More information]

Jiang, B. & de Rijke, C. (2022). Representing geographic space as a hierarchy of recursively defined subspaces for computing the degree of order. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 92. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101750 [More information]

Xie, Y., Liu, C., Chang, S. & Jiang, B. (2022). Urban Sustainability: Integrating Socioeconomic and Environmental Data for Multi-Objective Assessment. Sustainability, 14 (15). 10.3390/su14159142 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Huang, J. (2021). A new approach to detecting and designing living structure of urban environments. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 88. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101646 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Huang, J. (2021). A new approach to detecting and designing living structure of urban environments. Computational Urban Science, 1. 10.1007/s43762-021-00013-y [More information]

Jiang, B. & de Rijke, C. (2021). A power-law-based approach to mapping COVID-19 cases in the United States. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 24 (3), 333-339. 10.1080/10095020.2020.1871306 [More information]

Huang, H., Yao, X., Krisp, J. & Jiang, B. (2021). Analytics of location-based big data for smart cities : Opportunities, challenges, and future directions. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 90. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101712 [More information]

Jiang, B. & de Rijke, C. (2021). Structural Beauty: A Structure-Based Computational Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image. Journal of imaging, 7 (5). 10.3390/jimaging7050078 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Slocum, T. (2020). A map is a living structure with the recurring notion of far more smalls than larges. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9 (6). 10.3390/ijgi9060388 [More information]

Ma, D., Osaragi, T., Oki, T. & Jiang, B. (2020). Exploring the heterogeneity of human urban movements using geo-tagged tweets. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34 (12), 2475-2496. 10.1080/13658816.2020.1718153 [More information]

de Rijke, C., Macassa, G., Sandberg, M. & Jiang, B. (2020). Living Structure as an Empirical Measurement of City Morphology. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9 (11). 10.3390/ijgi9110677 [More information]

Karydas, C. & Jiang, B. (2020). Scale optimization in topographic and hydrographic feature mapping using fractal analysis. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9 (11). 10.3390/ijgi9110631 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). A recursive definition of goodness of space for bridging the concepts of space and place for sustainability. Sustainability, 11 (15). 10.3390/su11154091 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). Alexander’s wholeness as the scientific foundation of sustainable urban design and planning. New Design Ideas, 3 (2), 81-98. [More information]

Ren, Z., Jiang, B. & Seipel, S. (2019). Capturing and characterizing human activities using building locations in America. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8 (5). 10.3390/ijgi8050200 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). Christopher Alexander and His Life’s Work : The Nature of Order. Urban Science, 3 (1). 10.3390/urbansci3010030 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Ren, Z. (2019). Geographic space as a living structure for predicting human activities using big data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33 (4), 764-779. 10.1080/13658816.2018.1427754 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). Living Structure Down to Earth and Up to Heaven : Christopher Alexander. Urban Science, 3 (3). 10.3390/urbansci3030096 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). Natural Cities Generated from All Building Locations in America. Data, 4 (2). 10.3390/data4020059 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2019). New Paradigm in Mapping: A Critique on Cartography and GIS. Cartographica, 54 (3), 193-205. 10.3138/cart.54.3.2018-0019 [More information]

Yao, X., Huang, H., Jiang, B. & Krisp, J. (2019). Representation and analytical models for location-based big data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33 (4), 707-713. 10.1080/13658816.2018.1562068 [More information]

Behnisch, M., Hecht, R., Herold, H. & Jiang, B. (2019). Urban big data analytics and morphology. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46 (7 (SI)), 1203-1205. 10.1177/2399808319870016 [More information]

Ma, D., Omer, I., Osaragi, T., Sandberg, M. & Jiang, B. (2019). Why Topology Matters in Predicting Human Activities. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46 (7), 1297-1313. 10.1177/2399808318792268 [More information]

Ma, D. & Jiang, B. (2018). A smooth curve as a fractal under the third definition. Cartographica, 53 (3), 203-210. 10.3138/cart.53.3.2017-0032 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2018). A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole. Geographical Analysis, 50 (3), 298-313. 10.1111/gean.12145 [More information]

Chen, Y. & Jiang, B. (2018). Hierarchical scaling in systems of natural cities. Entropy, 20 (6). 10.3390/e20060432 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Ma, D. (2018). How complex is a fractal? : Head/tail breaks and fractional hierarchy. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 2 (1). 10.1007/s41651-017-0009-z [More information]

Jiang, B. (2018). Spatial heterogeneity, scale, data character and sustainable transport in the big data era. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7 (5 (SI)). 10.3390/ijgi7050167 [More information]

Ma, D., Sandberg, M. & Jiang, B. (2017). A Socio-Geographic Perspective on Human Activities in Social Media. Geographical Analysis, 49 (3), 328-342. 10.1111/gean.12122 [More information]

Robinson, A., Demšar, U., Moore, A., Buckley, A., Jiang, B., Field, K., Kraak, M., Camboim, S. & Sluter, C. (2017). Geospatial big data and cartography : research challenges and opportunities for making maps that matter. International Journal of Cartography, 3 (Suppl. 1), 32-60. 10.1080/23729333.2016.1278151 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2017). Scaling as a design principle for cartography. Annals of GIS, 23 (1), 67-69. 10.1080/19475683.2016.1251491 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2016). A complex-network perspective on Alexander's wholeness. Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 463, 475-484. 10.1016/j.physa.2016.07.038 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Brandt, S. (2016). A Fractal Perspective on Scale in Geography. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information, 5 (6). 10.3390/ijgi5060095 [More information]

See, L., Mooney, P., Foody, G., Bastin, L., Comber, A., Estima, J., Fritz, S., Kerle, N., Jiang, B., Laakso, M., Liu, H., Milčinski, G., Nikšič, M., Painho, M., Pődör, A., Olteanu-Raimond, A. & Rutzinger, M. (2016). Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? : The current state of crowdsourced geographic information. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5 (5). 10.3390/ijgi5050055 [More information]

Li, S., Dragicevic, S., Castro, F., Sester, M., Winter, S., Coltekin, A., Pettit, C., Jiang, B., Haworth, J., Stein, A. & Cheng, T. (2016). Geospatial big data handling theory and methods : a review and research challenges. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing (Print), 115, 119-133. 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.10.012 [More information]

Yao, X., Jiang, B., Liu, Y. & Madden, M. (2016). New insights gained from location-based social media data : VSI Preface for the special issue on New insights gained from location-based social media data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 58. External link [More information]

Jiang, B., Ma, D., Yin, J. & Sandberg, M. (2016). Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities. Geographical Analysis, 48 (3), 337-351. 10.1111/gean.12096 [More information]

Omer, I. & Jiang, B. (2015). Can cognitive inferences be made from aggregate traffic flow data?. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 54, 219-229. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.08.005 [More information]

Ma, D., Sandberg, M. & Jiang, B. (2015). Characterizing the Heterogeneity of the OpenStreetMap Data and Community. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4 (2), 535-550. 10.3390/ijgi4020535 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Ma, D. (2015). Defining least community as a homogeneous group in complex networks. Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 428, 154-160. 10.1016/j.physa.2015.02.029 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2015). Geospatial analysis requires a different way of thinking : the problem of spatial heterogeneity. GeoJournal, 80 (1), 1-13. 10.1007/s10708-014-9537-y [More information]

Jiang, B. (2015). Head/tail breaks for visualization of city structure and dynamics. Cities, 43, 69-77. 10.1016/j.cities.2014.11.013 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Miao, Y. (2015). The Evolution of Natural Cities from the Perspective of Location-Based Social Media. Professional Geographer, 67 (2), 295-306. 10.1080/00330124.2014.968886 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2015). The fractal nature of maps and mapping. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29 (1), 159-174. 10.1080/13658816.2014.953165 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2015). Wholeness as a hierarchical graph to capture the nature of space. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29 (9), 1632-1648. 10.1080/13658816.2015.1038542 [More information]

Jiang, B., Yin, J. & Liu, Q. (2015). Zipf’s law for all the natural cities around the world. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29 (3), 498-522. 10.1080/13658816.2014.988715 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Sui, D. (2014). A new kind of beauty out of the underlying scaling of geographic space. Professional Geographer, 66 (4), 676-686. 10.1080/00330124.2013.852037 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Yin, J. (2014). Ht-index for quantifying the fractal or scaling structure of geographic features. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104 (3), 530-541. 10.1080/00045608.2013.834239 [More information]

Jiang, B., Duan, Y., Lu, F., Yang, T. & Zhao, J. (2014). Topological structure of urban street networks from the perspective of degree correlations. Environment and Planning, B : Planning and Design, 41 (5), 813-828. 10.1068/b39110 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2013). Head/tail breaks : A new classification scheme for data with a heavy-tailed distribution. Professional Geographer, 65 (3), 482-494. 10.1080/00330124.2012.700499 [More information]

Jiang, B., Liu, X. & Jia, T. (2013). Scaling of Geographic space as a universal rule for map generalization. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103 (4), 844-855. 10.1080/00045608.2013.765773 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2013). The Image of the city out of the underlying scaling of city artifacts or locations. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103 (6), 1552-1566. 10.1080/00045608.2013.779503 [More information]

Jia, T., Jiang, B., Carling, K., Bolin, M. & Ban, Y. (2012). An empirical study on human mobility and its agent-based modeling. Journal of Statistical Mechanics : Theory and Experiment (11), P11024-. 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/11/P11024 [More information]

Jia, T. & Jiang, B. (2012). Building and analyzing the US airport network based on en-route location information. Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 391 (15), 4031-4042. 10.1016/j.physa.2012.03.006 [More information]

Liu, X. & Jiang, B. (2012). Defining and generating axial lines from street center lines for better understanding of urban morphologies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26 (8), 1521-1532. 10.1080/13658816.2011.643800 [More information]

Jia, T. & Jiang, B. (2012). Exploring human activity patterns using taxicab static points. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 1 (1), 89-107. 10.3390/ijgi1010089 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Liu, X. (2012). Scaling of geographic space from the perspective of city and field blocks and using volunteered geographic information. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26 (2), 215-229. 10.1080/13658816.2011.575074 [More information]

Liu, X. & Jiang, B. (2011). A novel approach to the identification of urban sprawl patches based on the scaling of geographic space. International journal of Geomatics and Geosciences, 2 (2), 415-429. [More information]

Jiang, B. & Jia, T. (2011). Agent-based simulation of human movement shaped by the underlying street structure. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 (1), 51-64. 10.1080/13658811003712864 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Liu, X. (2011). Computing the fewest-turn map directions based on the connectivity of natural roads. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 (7), 1069-1082. 10.1080/13658816.2010.510799 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Jia, T. (2011). Zipf's law for all the natural cities in the United States : a geospatial perspective. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 (8), 1269-1281. 10.1080/13658816.2010.510801 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Liu, X. (2010). Automatic generation of the axial lines of urban environments to capture what we perceive. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24 (4), 545-558. 10.1080/13658810902950351 [More information]

Jiang, B., Yin, J. & Zhao, S. (2009). Characterizing the human mobility pattern in a large street network. Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics : Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 80 (2). 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021136 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2009). Ranking spaces for predicting human movement in an urban environment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23 (7), 823-837. 10.1080/13658810802022822 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2009). Street hierarchies: a minority of streets account for a majority of traffic flow. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23 (8), 1033-1148. 10.1080/13658810802004648 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Liu, C. (2009). Street-based topological representations and analyses for predicting traffic flow in GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23 (9), 1119-1137. 10.1080/13658810701690448 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2008). Flow dimension and capacity for structuring urban street networks. Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 387 (16-17), 4440-4452. 10.1016/j.physa.2008.02.047 [More information]

Jiang, B., Zhao, S. & Yin, J. (2008). Self-organized natural roads for predicting traffic flow : a sensitivity study. Journal of Statistical Mechanics : Theory and Experiment (July). 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/07/P07008 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2007). A topological pattern of urban street networks : universality and peculiarity. Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 384 (2), 647-655. 10.1016/j.physa.2007.05.064 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2007). Some thoughts on geospatial analysis and modeling. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 31 (5), 477-480. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2007.08.001 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Omer, I. (2007). Spatial topology and its structural analysis based on the concept of simplicial complex. Transactions in GIS, 11 (6), 943-960. 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01073.x [More information]

Jiang, B. & Yao, X. (2006). Location-based services and GIS in perspective. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30 (6), 712-725. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2006.02.003 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Li, Z. (2005). Geovisualization : Design, enhanced visual tools and applications. Cartographic Journal, 42 (1), 3-4. 10.1179/000870405X52702 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Claramunt, C. (2004). A structural approach to model generalisation of an urban street network. Geoinformatica, 8 (2), 157-171. 10.1023/B:GEIN.0000017746.44824.70 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Zipf, A. (2004). An introduction to the special issue on LBS and GIS. Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, 10 (2), 89-90. [More information]

Jiang, B. & Harrie, L. (2004). Selection of streets from a network using self-organizing maps. Transactions on GIS, 8 (3), 335-350. 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2004.00186.x [More information]

Jiang, B. & Claramunt, C. (2002). Intergration of space syntax into GIS : new perspectives for urban morphology. Transactions on GIS, 6 (3), 295-309. 10.1111/1467-9671.00112 [More information]

Scholarly articles, non-refereed

Jiang, B. (2017). New ways of thinking for maps and mapping. Kart och Bildteknik, - (3), 9-. [More information]

Jiang, B. & Thill, J. (2015). Volunteered Geographic Information : Towards the establishment of a new paradigm. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 53 (SI), 1-3. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.09.011 [More information]

Jiang, B. & Okabe, A. (2014). Different ways of thinking about street networks and spatial analysis. Geographical Analysis, 46 (4), 341-344. 10.1111/gean.12060 [More information]

Benenson, I. & Jiang, B. (2012). Editorial : Bridging the Gap between Urban and Regional Modeling, and Planning Practice. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 24 (1), 5-7. [More information]

Yao, X. & Jiang, B. (2009). Geospatial modeling of urban environments. Environment and Planning, B : Planning and Design, 36 (5), 769-771. 10.1068/b3605ged [More information]

Book reviews

Jiang, B. (2008). Review of Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. Cartographic Journal. P. 769-771. [More information]

Jiang, B. (2007). Cybercartography : theory and practice. Environment and Planning, B : Planning and Design. P. 186-187. External link [More information]

Jiang, B. (2005). Review of : Location-Based Services by Jochen Schiller and Agnes Voisard. Geoinformatics. P. 21-21. External link [More information]

Jiang, B. (2005). Review of : Mapping Scientific Frontiers: the Quest for Knowledge visualization by Chaomei Chen. Cartographic Journal. P. 189-190. 10.1179/000870405X61496 [More information]

Jiang, B. (2004). How many turns? It is smaller than we thought. Geoinformatics. P. 27-27. External link [More information]

Jiang, B. (2004). Review of: Telegeoinformatics: Location-Based Computing and Services by Hassan A. Karimi and Amin Hammad. Geoinformatics. P. 57-57. External link [More information]

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Bin Jiang

Bin Jiang

Scholarly articles, refereed

Scholarly articles, non-refereed

Other articles (popular science, debate etc.)

Book reviews