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Waishan Qiu

The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design

Assistant Professor

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The University of Hong Kong

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Cornell University

Graduate Lecturer

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

16

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1,180

TOTAL CITATIONS

52

Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Social Inequalities in Neighborhood-Level Streetscape Perceptions in Shanghai: The Coherence and Divergence between the Objective and Subjective Measurements

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2025
Qiwei SONG, Wenjing Li, Meikang LI and Waishan Qiu
University of Toronto, University of Tokyo, University of Toronto and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
Downloads 172 (447,215)
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street view imagery, subjective and objective, perceptions, coherence and divergence, social inequality, Artificial Intelligence

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The urban greening paradox: Measuring day-night perceived safety divergences from paired street view images using Generative AI  

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, volume 118, 2026[10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129350]
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Oct 2025 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2026
Jiajing Dai, Yuankai Wang, Waishan Qiu, Jun Ma and Da Chen
University of Pennsylvania, The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong and University of Bath
Downloads 146 (547,695)
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Nighttime Street View Image, Nighttime Perceived Safety, Day-To-Night Translation, Generative AI, Model Transferability

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Cross-border shopping accessibility and housing rents: A case study of HK residents flocking north to Shenzhen

Journal of Urban Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2025.08.005
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2025
Zexiao Guo, Yufei Wu, Yuankai Wang and Waishan Qiu
The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Hong Kong-Shenzhen, Cross-Border Shopping, Accessibility to Commercial Space, Housing Rents, Interregional Economic Integration

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Investigating the Civic Emotion Dynamics during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence from Social Media

Sustainable Cities and Society, volume 107, 2024[10.1016/j.scs.2024.105403]
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2025
Polytechnic University of Milan, Southeast University, University College London, University of Tokyo, Peking University and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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COVID-19 lockdown, negative emotion, spatial heterogeneity, sustainable urban planning

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Generated Nighttime Street View Image to Inform Perceived Safety Divergence Between Day and Night in High Density Cities: A Case Study in Hong Kong

Journal of Urban Management, 2024[10.1016/j.jum.2024.11.006]
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2025
The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, University of Pennsylvania and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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street view imagery, safety perception, computer vision, nighttime investigation

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Investigating the Determinants of Dockless Bikeshare and Bus Integration in Small Cities: Evidence from a Full-Year Panel Data in Ithaca Upstate New York

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Mar 2022
Waishan Qiu, Faan Chen, Xiang Xu and Hector Chang
The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University, South China University of Technology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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dockless bikeshare, last-mile problem, modal integration, bus, small city

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Unraveling The Effects of Micro-Level Street Environment on Dockless Bikeshare in Ithaca

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 May 2024
University of Toronto, University of College London, University of Tokyo, Harvard University and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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dockless bikeshare, street environment, visual quality, street view imagery, Lime trajectory

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BikeshareGAN: Predicting Dockless Bike-Sharing Demand Based on Satellite Image

Journal of Transport Geography, volume 126, 2025[10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104245]
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2025
Tongji University, The University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), University of Bath and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Dockless Bike-Sharing (DBS), Parking Demand, Satellite Image, Shenzhen, Generating Adversarial Networks (GAN), Image-to-Image, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)

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Investigating the Spatiotemporally Heterogeneous Effects of Macro and Micro Built Environment on Sexual Violence Against Women: A Case Study of Mumbai

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, volume 12, issue 1, 2025[10.1057/s41599-025-04838-4]
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2025
Southeast University, Polytechnic University of Milan - Politecnico di milano, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, University of Tokyo, Southeast University and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Sexual Violence, Women, Mumbai, Street View, Criminogenic Land Use, Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity

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Supplementing Street View Imagery to Local Climate Zones for Modeling Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Sustainable Cities and Society, volume 130, 2025[10.1016/j.scs.2025.106644]
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Aug 2025 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2025
Xiang Xu, Xintong Lyu, Wenjing Li and Waishan Qiu
South China University of Technology, The University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Local Climate Zones, Street View Imagery, Urban Heat Island, Streetscape, Urban Design

11.

Gender Difference in Recreational Active Travel: The Role of Multi-Level Urban Environment in Safe, Compact Cities

Cities, volume 174, 2026[10.1016/j.cities.2026.106984]
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2026
The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, University College London, Nanjing Forestry University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), North China University of Technology, Tongji University and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Recreational Active Travel (RAT), Gender Difference, Built Environment (BE), Street Environment (SE), Hong Kong, Strava

12.

Nightlight-nightlife interplay: Threshold effects of ambient lighting on perceived safety and physical activity at night

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, volume 147, 2026[10.1016/j.jag.2026.105146]
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 03 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2026
The University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Tongji University and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Artificial light at night (ALAN), Nighttime street view imagery, Nighttime safety perception, Physical activity, Semantic-Brightness interaction, Threshold effect, Multimodal diffusion

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SolarGAN For Meso-Level Solar Radiation Prediction at the Urban-Scale: A Case Study in Boston

Remote Sensing, volume 16, issue 23, 2024[10.3390/rs16234524]
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2025
National University of Singapore, The University of Hong Kong, University College London, The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Bath and Tsinghua University
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Solar Radiation Mapping, Urban Morphology, Remote Sensing Data, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

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From Seeing to Perceiving Urban Physical Disorder: A Fine-grained Analysis of Objective Visual Cues and Subjective Perception

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 May 2026
Fangqi liu, Yi Lu, Yi Liu and Waishan Qiu
City University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Urban perception, Physical disorder, Street view imagery, Urban greenery, computer vision

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Desirable Bikeshare Routes: Nonlinear Impacts of Micro-Level Street Environments

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, volume 208, 2026[10.1016/j.tra.2026.104962]
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2026
University of Chicago, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Xi'an Jiaotong -Liverpool University, University of Chicago, The University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo and The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design
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Dockless bikeshare (DBS), Cyclists, Route choice, Non-linear effects, Micro-level street environment, Road damage detection

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Age-specific demand for 15-minute living: evidence from six million residents in Shenzhen

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Jul 2026
Shenzhen University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, The University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong - Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong and University College London
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15-minute community life circle, age-friendly mobility, Location-based services, Shenzhen