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Bin Jiang

Affiliated Researcher

Research subject: Geography

Research area: Geospatial Information Science

bin.jiang@hig.se

About the researcher

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.

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Refereed

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

  • Ren, Z., Jiang, B., de Rijke, C. & Seipel, S. (2024). Characterizing the livingness of geographic space across scales using global nighttime light data. Elsevier, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 133 (), 10.1016/j.jag.2024.104136 [More information]

  • Hu, B., Fu, S., Luo, J., Lin, H., Yin, Q., Tao, V., Jiang, B., Zuo, L. & Meng, Y. (2023). Geographical detector-based assessment of multi-level explanatory powers of determinants on China’s medical-service resumption during the COVID-19 epidemic. SAGE, Environment and planning B, 50 (7), (1739-1758). 10.1177/23998083221143122 [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. Taylor & Francis, 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. Cogitatio, 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. MDPI, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (19), 10.3390/ijerph191912304 [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2022). Geography as a science of the earth’s surface founded on the third view of space. Taylor & Francis, 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. Elsevier, 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. MDPI, 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. Elsevier, 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. Springer, 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. Taylor & Francis, 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. Elsevier, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 90 (), [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & de Rijke, C. (2021). Structural Beauty: A Structure-Based Computational Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image. MDPI, 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. MDPI, 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. Taylor & Francis, 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. MDPI, 10.3390/ijgi9110677 [More information]

  • Karydas, C. & Jiang, B. (2020). Scale optimization in topographic and hydrographic feature mapping using fractal analysis. MDPI, 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. MDPI AG, 10.3390/su11154091 [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2019). Alexander’s wholeness as the scientific foundation of sustainable urban design and planning. Jomard Publishing, [More information]

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

  • Jiang, B. (2019). Christopher Alexander and His Life’s Work. MDPI, 10.3390/urbansci3010030 [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Ren, Z. (2019). Geographic space as a living structure for predicting human activities using big data. Taylor & Francis, 10.1080/13658816.2018.1427754 [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2019). Living Structure Down to Earth and Up to Heaven. MDPI, 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. University of Toronto Press, 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. Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33 (4), (707-713). [More information]

  • Behnisch, M., Hecht, R., Herold, H. & Jiang, B. (2019). Urban big data analytics and morphology. Sage Publications, Environment and planning B, 46 (7 (SI)), (1203-1205). [More information]

  • Ma, D., Omer, I., Osaragi, T., Sandberg, M. & Jiang, B. (2019). Why Topology Matters in Predicting Human Activities. Sage Publications, Environment and planning B, 46 (7), (1297-1313). [More information]

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

  • Jiang, B. (2018). A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole. John Wiley & Sons, Geographical Analysis, 50 (3), (298-313). [More information]

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

  • Jiang, B. & Ma, D. (2018). How complex is a fractal?. 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. MDPI AG, 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). [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. 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). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2016). A complex-network perspective on Alexander's wholeness. Physica A, 463 (), (475-484). [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?. 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. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing (Print), 115 (), (119-133). [More information]

  • Yao, X., Jiang, B., Liu, Y. & Madden, M. (2016). New insights gained from location-based social media data. Elsevier, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 58 (), [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). [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). [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, 428 (), (154-160). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2015). Geospatial analysis requires a different way of thinking. GeoJournal, 80 (1), (1-13). [More information]

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

  • Jiang, B. (2015). The fractal nature of maps and mapping. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29 (1), (159-174). [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). [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). [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). [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). [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, 41 (5), (813-828). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2013). Head/tail breaks. Professional Geographer, 65 (3), (482-494). [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). [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). [More information]

  • Jia, T., Jiang, B., Carling, K., Bolin, M. & Ban, Y. (2012). An empirical study on human mobility and its agent-based modeling. Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), Journal of Statistical Mechanics, (11), (P11024-). [More information]

  • Jia, T. & Jiang, B. (2012). Building and analyzing the US airport network based on en-route location information. Physica A, 391 (15), (4031-4042). [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). [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). [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. Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 (1), (51-64). [More information]

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

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

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

  • Jiang, B., Yin, J. & Zhao, S. (2009). Characterizing the human mobility pattern in a large street network. American Physical Society, Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 80 (2), [More information]

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

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

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

  • Jiang, B. (2008). Flow dimension and capacity for structuring urban street networks. Physica A, 387 (16-17), (4440-4452). [More information]

  • Jiang, B., Zhao, S. & Yin, J. (2008). Self-organized natural roads for predicting traffic flow. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, (July), [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2007). A topological pattern of urban street networks. Physica A, 384 (2), (647-655). [More information]

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

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

  • Jiang, B. & Li, Z. (2005). Geovisualization. Cartographic Journal, 42 (1), (3-4). [More information]

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

  • Jiang, B. & Claramunt, C. (2002). Intergration of space syntax into GIS. Transactions on GIS, 6 (3), (295-309). [More information]

Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)

  • Jiang, B. (2020). Is living structure beauty's temperature?. Tsinghua University, Beijing, [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2011). Making GIScience research more open access. Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25 (8), (1217-1220). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Zipf, A. (2006). How do location-based services hit Google?. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30 (6), (709-711). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). A different topology. GEO Informatics, (March), (21-21). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). A structural perspective on visibility patterns with a topographic surface. Transactions on GIS, 9 (4), (475-488). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). Visualization of qualitative locations in geographic information systems. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 32 (4), (219-229). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Claramunt, C. (2004). Topological analysis of urban street networks. Environment and Planning, B, 31 (), (151-162). [More information]

Other academic

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

  • Jiang, B. & Thill, J. (2015). Volunteered Geographic Information. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 53 (SI), (1-3). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Okabe, A. (2014). Different ways of thinking about street networks and spatial analysis. Geographical Analysis, 46 (4), (341-344). [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, 36 (5), (769-771). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2008). Review of Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. Cartographic Journal, 36 (5), (769-771). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2007). Cybercartography. Environment and Planning, B, 34 (1), (186-187). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). Review of. Geoinformatics, (July/August), (21-21). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). Review of. Cartographic Journal, 42 (2), (189-190). [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2004). How many turns? It is smaller than we thought. Geoinformatics, Oct./Nov. (), (27-27). [More information]

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

Conference papers

  • Jiang, B. (2020). Spatial Healing: Bridging Space and Place through the Concept of Wholeness. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2019). Bridging the Two Concepts of Space and Place through the Concept of Wholeness. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2019). Spatial Heterogeneity, Scale, Data Character, and Sustainable Transport in the Big Data Era. : DATA ANALYTICS: PAVING THE WAY TO SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY. S. 730-736. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). A Geospatial Perspective on Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Era of BIG Data. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). Challenging the Establishment of Cartography and GIS. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). Geospatial Analysis Requires a Different Way of Thinking : The Problem of Spatial Heterogeneity. : TRENDS IN SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND MODELLING. S. 23-40. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). On Spatiotemporal Thinking: Spatial heterogeneity, scale, and data character. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). Scaling Law and Tobler's Law for Characterizing Asymmetry in Geography. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2018). Three Fundamental Issues on Geography as a Science of the Earth's Surface. [More information]

  • Moore, A. & Jiang, B. (2018). Towards data-based artworks in geovisual analytics. Länk [More information]

  • Omer, I., Kaplan, N. & Jiang, B. (2018). Why angular centralities are more suitable for space syntax modeling?. : Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium. S. 100.1-100.12. [More information]

  • Omer, I., Kaplan, N. & Jiang, B. (2017). Why angular centralities are more suitable for space syntax modeling?. : Proceedings - 11th International Space Syntax Symposium. S. 100.1-100.12. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2013). Why can the image of the city be formed?. : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on GeoComputation, LIESMARS. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2012). Computing the image of the city. : Planning Support Tools: Policy analysis, implementation and evaluation. S. 111-121. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2011). A short note on data-intensive geospatial computing. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2010). Bottom-up approach to studying the street structure and human movement patterns. : Workshop on Movement Research: Are you in the flow?. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2010). Data-intensive geospatial analysis and computation. : online proceeding. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Liu, X. (2009). AxialGen: a research prototype for automatically generating the axial map. : Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM). [More information]

  • Brandt, S. & Jiang, B. (2004). 3D geovisualization as a communication and analysis tool in fluvial geomorphology. : Geoinformatics 2004. S. 339-346. Länk [More information]

Chapters in books

  • Jiang, B., Ma, D., Yin, J. & Sandberg, M. (2021). Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities. Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis, and Modeling in the Urban Environment. John Wiley & Sons. S. 115-129. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2019). A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Springer. S. 335-352. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Ren, Z. (2019). Geographic Space as a Living Structure for Predicting Human Activities Using Big Data. Mobility patterns, big data and transport analytics : Tools and applications for modeling. Elsevier. S. 55-72. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2016). Head/tail breaks for visualization of city structure and dynamics. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information. London, Ubiquity Press. S. 169-183. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2016). Line simplification. International Encyclopedia of Geography : People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell. [More information]

  • Lemmens, R., Falquet, G., De Sabbata, S., Jiang, B. & Bucher, B. (2016). Querying VGI by semantic enrichment. European Handbook on Crowdsourced Geographic Information. London, Ubiquity Press. S. 185-194. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2015). A city is a complex network. A City is Not a Tree : 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Edition. Portland, Sustasis Press. S. 89-100. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2013). Volunteered geographic information and computational geography. Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge : Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. S. 125-138. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. & Yao, X. (2010). Geospatial analysis and modeling of urban structure and dynamics. The GeoJournal Library, 2010, Volume 99, Part 1. Berlin, Springer. S. 3-11. [More information]

  • Omer, I. & Jiang, B. (2010). Imageability and topological eccentricity of urban streets. Dordrecht, Springer. [More information]

  • Jiang, B. (2005). Small world modelling for complex geographic environments. Complex Artificial Environments : simulation, cognition and VR in the study and planning of cities. Berlin, Springer. S. 259-270. [More information]

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