Publications

Dr Kristen Zhao (2025). Policy Brief: Improving Street Urban Design Through Co-creation. uLab.

Siyuan Meng, Xian Su, Dr Guibo Sun, Maosu Li, Fan Xue (2025). From 3D pedestrian networks to wheelable networks: An automatic wheelability assessment method for high-density urban areas using contrastive deep learning of smartphone point clouds. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 117.

Dr Guibo Sun, Charles Musselwhite (2025). Planning, transport, and healthy ageing in Asia. Journal of Transport & Health, 41.

Dongsheng He, Dr Jinshuo Wang, Dr Guibo Sun (2025). Ambiguity in state-owned land property rights increases transaction costs in China’s transit-oriented development projects. Land Use Policy, 152.

Dr Kristen Zhao, Robin A. Chang, Dr Guibo Sun (2025). Experiment unlearned: Unpacking leadership and learning of key actors in a Hong Kong street experiment. Journal of Urban Mobility, 7.

Dr Yao Du, Dr Guibo Sun (2024). Causal mediation analysis of social and environmental factors in pathways from a metro intervention to eudaimonic wellbeing among older people. Journal of Transport & Health, 38.

Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster (2024). Are Gated Communities Capturing the Lion’s Share of Metro Accessibility?. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Dongsheng He, Dr Guibo Sun (2024). New metro and housing price and rent premiums: A natural experiment in China. Urban Studies, 61(7).

Dr Yao Du, Dr Guibo Sun, Eva Heinen (2024). Does subjective wellbeing modify travel behaviour changes among older people in response to a new metro line?. Journal of Transport Geography, 117.

Dr Kristen Zhao, Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster (2024). Global Street Experiment: A Geospatial Database of Pandemic-induced Street Transitions. Landscape and Urban Planning, 242.

Eun Yeong Choe, Dongsheng He, Dr Guibo Sun (2023). Trading-Off Transit and Non-Transit Physical Activity among Older People: Evidence from Longitudinal Accelerometer Data of a Natural Experiment Study. Journal of Urban Health, 100, 408-417.

Dr Guibo Sun, Dr Yao Du (2023). New metro and subjective wellbeing among older people: A natural experiment in Hong Kong. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 169.

Dr Guibo Sun, Eun Yeong Choe, Chris Webster (2023). Natural experiments in healthy cities research: how can urban planning and design knowledge reinforce the causal inference?. Town Planning Review, 94(1).

Dr Yao Du, Dr Guibo Sun, Mei-Po Kwan (2022). Transit-oriented development for older people: Does using multiple public transport options improve their physical and mental health?. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 15(1).

Eun Yeong Choe, Dr Yao Du, Dr Guibo Sun (2022). Decline in older adults’ daily mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of individual and built environment factors. BMC Public Health, 22.

Dongsheng He, Dr Guibo Sun, Jobas De Vos, Chris Webster (2022). The effects of metro interventions on physical activity and walking among older adults: A natural experiment in Hong Kong. Health & Place, 78.

Dongsheng He, Yi Lu, Bo Xie, Marco Helbich (2022). How greenway exposure reduces body weight: A natural experiment in China. Landscape and Urban Planning, 226.

Dr Yao Du, Dr Guibo Sun, Eun Yeong Choe, Mei-Po Kwan (2022). Mediation effects of social isolation on pathways connecting public transport use with subjective wellbeing among older people. Journal of Transport & Health, 25.

Dongsheng He, Jia Miao, Yi Lu, Yimeng Song, Long Chen, Ye Liu (2022). Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China. Cities, 124.

Gianni Talamini, Di Shao, Andy H.F. Chow, Dr Guibo Sun (2022). The controversial impact of pedestrian guardrails on road crossing behaviours. Evidence from Hong Kong. Urban Design International 27, 156-172.

Dr Kristen Zhao, Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster (2022). Does China-Pakistan Economic Corridor improve connectivity in Pakistan? A protocol assessing the planned transport network infrastructure. Journal of Transport Geography, 100.

Dongsheng He, Yi Lu, Bo Xie, Marco Helbich (2021). Large-scale greenway intervention promotes walking behaviors: A natural experiment in China. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 101.

Dr Guibo Sun, Cheuk Yin Lau (2021). Go-along with older people to public transport in high-density cities: Understanding the concerns and walking barriers through their lens. Journal of Transport & Health, 21.

Dr Guibo Sun, Dr Yao Du, Michael Y. Ni, Dr Kristen Zhao, Chris Webster (2021). Metro and elderly health in Hong Kong: protocol for a natural experiment study in a high-density city. BMJ Open, 11.

Dr Kristen Zhao, Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster (2020). Walkability scoring: Why and how does a three-dimensional pedestrian network matter?. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(8).

Dr Guibo Sun, Dr Kristen Zhao, Chris Webster, Hui Lin (2020). New metro system and active travel: A natural experiment. Environment International, 138.

Dr Guibo Sun, Dugald Wallace, Chris Webster (2020). Unravelling the impact of street network structure and gated community layout in development-oriented transit design. Land Use Policy, 90.

Yi Lu, Dr Guibo Sun, Zhonghua Gou, Ye Liu, Xiaoling Zhang (2019). A dose–response effect between built environment characteristics and transport walking for youths. Journal of Transport & Health, 14.

Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster, Xiaohu Zhang (2019). Connecting the city: A three-dimensional pedestrian network of Hong Kong. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(1).

Yi Lu, Yiyang Yang, Dr Guibo Sun, Zhonghua Gou (2019). Associations between overhead-view and eye-level urban greenness and cycling behaviors. Cities, 88.

Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster, Alain Chiaradia (2018). Ungating the city: A permeability perspective. Urban Studies, 55(12).

Dr Guibo Sun, Xili Han, Shaohua Sun, Nicolas Oreskovic (2018). Living in school catchment neighborhoods: Perceived built environments and active commuting behaviors of children in China. Journal of Transport & Health, 8.

Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster, Michael Y. Ni, Xiaohu Zhang (2018). Measuring high-density built environment for public health research: Uncertainty with respect to data, indicator design and spatial scale. Geospatial Health, 13(1).

Dr Guibo Sun, John Zacharias (2017). Can bicycle relieve overcrowded metro? Managing short-distance travel in Beijing. Sustainable Cities and Society, 35.

Dr Guibo Sun, Chris Webster, Alain Chiaradia (2017). Objective assessment of station approach routes: Development and reliability of an audit for walking environments around metro stations in China. Journal of Transport & Health, 4.

Dr Guibo Sun, John Zacharias, Ben Ma, Nicolas M. Oreskovic (2016). How do metro stations integrate with walking environments? Results from walking access within three types of built environment in Beijing. Cities, 56.

Dr Guibo Sun, Robert Haining, Hui Lin, Nicolas M. Oreskovic, Jie He (2015). Comparing the perception with the reality of walking in a hilly environment: an accessibility method applied to a University campus in Hong Kong. Geospatial Health, 10(1).

Dr Guibo Sun, Nicolas M. Oreskovic, Hui Lin (2014). How do changes to the built environment influence walking behaviors? a longitudinal study within a university campus in Hong Kong. International Journal of Health Geographics, 13.