Chingwen Cheng
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Mail code: 1605Campus: Tempe
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Dr. Chingwen Cheng is Program Head and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Design at The Design School, and Senior Global Futures Scientist at Arizona State University. She is Affiliated Faculty for Urban Climate Research Center, Biomimicry Center, and Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at ASU.
Dr. Cheng's teaching, research, and practice engage transdisciplinary approaches for Climate Justice Design integrating environmental justice theory, spatial mixed-methods, systems design, and nature-based solutions, working with communities for co-developing research agenda and strategies to enhance community resilience and sustainability. Dr. Cheng applies Climate Justicescape framework investigating spatial patterns of socially vulnerable groups exposed to climate change-associated hazards and integrates social-ecological-technological systems and place-based design for building just, resilient, and sustainable development.
Dr. Cheng was a visiting scholar at the Risk Society and Policy Research Center and Research Center for Future Earth at the National Taiwan University, and a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan focusing on empirical environmental justice research. She is a Registered Professional Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional with extensive professional experiences integrating participatory and transdisciplinary processes in watershed planning, stormwater management, Low-Impact Development, and community design in the United States. Dr. Cheng advocates for design justice and climate actions by serving on professional organizations. She served in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as past Co-Chair for the Environmental Justice Professional Practice Network, a member of the Climate Action Plan Advisory Group, and currently serves on the Climate Actions Committee and President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
Ph.D.Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA M.L.A.Landscape Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA B.S.Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Current research applies resilience and environmental justice theories to investigate Climate Justicescape in both distributive and procedural justice outcomes in the social-ecological-technological systems at national, regional, and local communities. Dr. Cheng employs GIS and hydrological modeling to evaluate green infrastructure performance for their ecosystem services benefits and adaptive capacity to climate change. Moreover, Dr. Cheng investigates social-institutional resilience through conducting interviews and surveys to understand the linkage between climate risk perception and adaptation actions across institutional scales. In turn, Dr. Cheng developed the Climate Justice Design framework bringing science-informed knowledge into transdisciplinary-engaged planning and design process with communities toward resilience and sustainability.
APRU SCL HUB Asia Pacific Rim Universities Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Hub
NATURA Nature-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene
UREx-SRN NSF Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainable Research Network
CAP LTER NSF Central Arizona Project Long-Term Ecological Research
UWIN NSF Urban Water Innovation Network
Choat, B., Pulido, A., Bhaskar, A.S., Hale, R.L., Zhang, H.X., Meixner, T., McPhillips, L.E., Hopkins, K., Cherrier, J., & Cheng, C. (2023). Assessing stormwater control measure inventories from 23 cities in the United States. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/acc759
Sanchez, C.A.*, Cheng, C., Childers, D.L., York, A. (2023). Transdisciplinary Co-design and Implementation of an Urban Ecological Green Infrastructure Landscape Performance Monitoring Plan. In: Gomes Sant'Anna, C., Mell, I., Schenk, L.B.M. (eds) Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities. Landscape Series, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18332-4_11
Porse, E., Cheng, C., Hughes, S., & Napawan, C. (2022). Editorial: Urban water management, planning, and design: Links, opportunities, and challenges. Frontiers in Water, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.1010318
McPhearson, T., Cook, E.M., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cheng, C., Grimm, N.B., Andersson, E., Barbosa, O., Chandler, D.G., Chang, H., Chester, M.V., Childers, D.L., Elser, S.R., Frantzeskaki, N., Grabowski, Z., Groffman, P., Hale, R.L., Iwaniec, D.M., Kabisch, N., Kennedy, C., Markolf, S.A., Matsler, A.M., McPhillips, L.E., Miller, T.R., Muñoz-Erickson, T.A., Rosi, E., Troxler, T.G. (2022). A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services. One Earth. (5)5:505-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.007
Cheng, C. (2022). Section Editor for Section 1: Vulnerable Communities, Resilience, and Climate Justice. In: Yang, Z. & Taufen, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim.
Cheng, C. (2022). Chapter 4: Introduction to Section 1: Intersection between Systemic Vulnerability, Community Resilience, Climate Justice and Sustainability. In: Yang, Z. & Taufen, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim.
Cheng, C., Pincetl, S., McKenzie, L. (2022). Chapter 5: Understanding vulnerability in cities: perspectives from APRU Vulnerable Communities Working Group participants. In: Yang, Z. & Taufen, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim.
Yao, G.C., Chen, S., Cheng, C., & Chou, W. (2022). Chapter 8: Creating flooding resilience in buildings for aging communities in Taiwan. In: Yang, Z. & Taufen, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim.
Muller, B., Amos, A., Cerra, J., Cheng, C., Feldman, D.L., Lau, T., Netusil, N., & Porse, E. (2022). Chapter 24: Redrawing our Urban Waters: Merging Design, Law, and Policy in Advancing Distributed Water Systems. In: Yang, Z. & Taufen, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim.
Gaiser, E.E., Kominoski, J.S., McKnight, D.M., Bahlai, C.A., Cheng, C., Record, S., Wollheim, W., Christianson, K.R., Downs, M.R., Hawman, P.A., Holbrook, S.J., Kumar, A., Mishra, D.R., Molotch, N.P., Primack, R.B., Rassweiler, A., Schmitt, R.J., Sutter, L. (2022). Long-term ecological research and the COVID-19 anthropause: A window to understanding social-ecological disturbance. Ecosphere. (2)14:e4019 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4019
Choat, B., Pulido, A., Bhaskar, A. S., Hale, R. L., Zhang, H. X., Meixner, T., McPhillips, L., Hopkins, K., Cherrier, J., & Cheng, C. (2022). A Call to Record Stormwater Control Functions and to Share Network Data. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 8(2): 02521005 https://doi.org/10.1061/JSWBAY.0000971
Wu, C.-F., Chen, S.-H., Cheng, C., & Trac, L.V.T. (2021). Climate Justice Planning in Global South: Applying a Coupled Nature–Human Flood Risk Assessment Framework in a Case for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Water. 13(15):2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13152021
Lai, C.-H., Liao, P.-C., Chen, S.-H., Wang, Y.-C., Cheng, C., & Wu, C.-F. (2021). Risk Perception and Adaptation of Climate Change: An Assessment of Community Resilience in Rural Taiwan. Sustainability. (13) 3651. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073651
Chang, H., Pallathadka, A., Sauer, J., Grimm, N., Zimmerman, R., Cheng, C., Iwaniec, D., Kim, Y., Lloyd, R., McPhearson, T., Rosenzweig, B., Troxler, T., Welty, C., Brenner, R., Herreros-Cantis, P. (2021). Assessment of Urban Flood Vulnerability Using the Social-Ecological-Technological Systems Framework in Six US cities. Sustainable Cities and Society. (68) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102786
Cheng, C., & Trakas, A.* (2020). Arizona State University Orange Mall Phase I Green Infrastructure Project. Landscape Performance Series. Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) https://doi.org/10.31353/cs1641
Guswa, A.J., Hall, B., Cheng, C., & Thompson, J. (2020). Co-designed land-use scenarios and their implications for storm runoff and streamflow in New England. Environmental Management. 66(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01342-0
AlKhaled, S.*, Coseo, P., Brazel, A., Cheng, C., Sailor, D., (2020). Between aspiration and actuality: A systematic review of morphological heat mitigation strategies in hot urban deserts. Urban Climate (31). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100570
Cheng, C. (2019). Climate justicescape and implications for urban resilience in American cities. In: Burayidi, M., Twigg, J., Allen, A., & Wamlester, C. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (pp. 83-96). New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books.
Cheng C. (2019). EcoWisdom for Climate justice planning: Social-ecological vulnerability assessment in Boston’s Charles River watershed. In: Yang B., Young R. (eds), Ecological Wisdom: Theory and Practice (pp. 249-265). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0571-9_13
Rosenzweig, B. R., McPhillips, L., Chang, H., Cheng, C., Welty, C., Matsler, M., Iwaniec, D., & Davidson, C. (2018). Urban pluvial flood risk and opportunities for resilience. WIREs e1302. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1302
Cheng, C., Tsai, J-Y, Yang, E. Y-C, Esselman, R., Kalcic, M., Mohai, P., & Xu, X. (2017). Risk communication and climate justice planning: A case for Michigan’s Huron River watershed. Urban Planning Journal. 2(4) p34-50. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i4.1045
Cheng, C., Yang, E. Y.-C., Ryan, R.L., Yu, Q. & Brabec, E. (2017). Assessing climate change-induced flooding mitigation for adaptation in Boston’s Charles River Watershed. Landscape and Urban Planning, 167, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.05.019
Cheng, C., Ryan, R.L., Warren, P.S. & Nicolson, C. (2017). Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of urban growth scenarios for metropolitan Boston (USA): The relationship between urban trees and perceived density. Cities and The Environment (CATE). 10 (1) 7. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol10/iss1/7/
Cheng, C. (2016). Spatial climate justice and green infrastructure assessment: A case for the Huron River watershed, Michigan, USA. GI_Forum, Vol 1, 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2016_01_s176
Cheng, C. (2014). Resilience thinking in landscape planning: A transdisciplinary framework and a case for climate change adaptation. Landscape Research Record, No.2, 178-189.
Danford, R., Cheng, C., Strohbach, M.S., Nicolson, C., Ryan, R. L. & Warren, P.S. (2014). What does it take to achieve equitable urban tree canopy distribution? A Boston case study. Cities and The Environment (CATE), Vol 7: Iss. 1, Article 2. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol7/iss1/2
Cheng, C., Brabec, E.A., Yang, Y. & Ryan, R.L. (2013). Rethinking stormwater in a changing world: Effects of detention for flooding hazard mitigation under climate change scenarios in the Charles River watershed. Landscape Research Record, No.1, 214-228.
Cheng, C. (2013). Social vulnerability, green infrastructure, urbanization and climate change-induced flooding: A risk assessment for the Charles River watershed, Massachusetts, USA. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Hydro-GI Lab, Director
NATURA Design for Justice Thematic Working Group, Co-Founder and Lead
APRU SCL Vulnerable, Resilient, and Climate Justice Community Working Group, Lead
Courses
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 684 | Internship |
EPD 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LDE 462 | Landscape Arch IV |
LAP 484 | Internship |
LAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EDS 484 | Internship |
LAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
EDS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LDE 593 | Applied Project |
LAP 584 | Internship |
EPD 792 | Research |
EDS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 792 | Research |
EPD 799 | Dissertation |
LAP 484 | Internship |
LDE 521 | Adv Landscape Arch Studio I |
LAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
DSC 598 | Special Topics |
EDS 493 | Honors Thesis |
LAP 484 | Internship |
EDS 484 | Internship |
LAP 584 | Internship |
LAP 584 | Internship |
EDS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MUD 521 | Adv Urban Design Studio I |
LAP 598 | Special Topics |
LAP 494 | Special Topics |
EPD 790 | Reading and Conference |
DSC 592 | Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAP 584 | Internship |
LAP 484 | Internship |
EDS 484 | Internship |
DSC 598 | Special Topics |
EPD 684 | Internship |
EPD 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPD 792 | Research |
LAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EDS 484 | Internship |
LAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
EDS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LDE 593 | Applied Project |
EPD 792 | Research |
EPD 792 | Research |
DSC 590 | Reading and Conference |
DSC 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 792 | Research |
EDS 301 | Sustainable Comm Dgn/Practices |
LDE 521 | Adv Landscape Arch Studio I |
LDE 621 | Adv Landscape Arch Studio III |
EPD 790 | Reading and Conference |
EDS 484 | Internship |
MUD 590 | Reading and Conference |
EDS 484 | Internship |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LDE 462 | Landscape Arch IV |
LAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LAP 494 | Special Topics |
LAP 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EDS 301 | Sustainable Comm Dgn/Practices |
LPH 411 | Landscape ArchTheory/Criticism |
EPD 790 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LDE 462 | Landscape Arch IV |
LAP 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LDE 521 | Adv Landscape Arch Studio I |
LAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
LAP 592 | Research |
LPH 598 | Special Topics |
2019 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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DSC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DSC 584 | Internship |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 799 | Dissertation |
ALA 102 | Landscapes and Sustainability |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPD 792 | Research |
EPD 799 | Dissertation |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
LDE 521 | Adv Landscape Arch Studio I |
ALA 102 | Landscapes and Sustainability |
LAP 493 | Honors Thesis |
LAP 592 | Research |
LDE 461 | Landscape Architecture III |
2023 Knowledge Enterprise Honorable Mention, The Design School, Arizona State University
2020 Educator of the Year, Arizona Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects (AZASLA)
2019 Director’s Choice Award for Services, The Design School, Arizona State University
2016-2017 Centennial Professorship Award, Associated Students of Arizona State University
2023-24 President, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
2022-23 President-Elect, CELA
2022 Member, Climate Action Plan Advisory Group, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
2021-22 Past Chair, Leadership Team, ASLA Environmental Justice Professional Practice Network (EJ PPN)
2019-20 Chair-Elect, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Board of Directors
2019-20 Chair, EDRA 51 Conference Committee, EDRA 51 Transform: Socially Embedded Collaboration, April 4-7, 2020, Tempe, Arizona (first virtual conference)
2018-19 Secretary and Interim Treasurer, EDRA Executive Board of Directors
2018-23 Co-Chair, CELA Landscape Planning and Ecology Track
2018-20 Co-Chair, ASLA EJ PPN
2007-08 Associate, Phil Graham Studio-ValleyCrest Design Group, St. Petersburg, Florida
2006-07 Project Manager, LandDesign, Inc., Tampa, Florida
2004-06 Senior Landscape Architect, Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
2002-04 Landscape Architecture Designer, Conservation Design Forum, Elmhurst, Illinois
2001 Planning Intern, Cosmos International, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Landscape Architecture Intern, EDAW, Brisbane, Australia