Invited Talks
Urban Data Science in Planning.
Evolution of the Urban Planning Research Landscape: Mapping 30-Years' Meaning Shifts Using Deep Learning Language Model.
Managing Your Time as an Emergent Researcher.
Advanced Topics in Urban Studies & Planning.
Communication Dynamics, Voting Behaviors and Corruption in Local Economic Development Projects.
The Golden Compass Workshop: Career Trajectories Panel.
UAA Webinar Series: Career Navigation for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Professionals and Students.
UAA Webinar Series: Basic Skills for Online Teaching.
The COVID-19 Effect: Tackling Racial, Economic, and Gender Inequities.
Let Computer Reads for You: The Use of Text Analysis in Social Science and Literature Study.
Career Development: How to Apply for Academic Jobs.
Tracking our Footsteps: Thirty Years of Publications in JAPA, JPER and JPL.
Retooling Our Pedagogy & Practice in Economic Development Planning.
Seize the Opportunity: Clear China’s Sky with Mega-Events.
Housing and Marital Matching: A Signaling Perspective.
The Use of Quasi-Experimental Methods in Policy Evaluation.
Meta-Analysis and Its Applications in Social Science.
Invited Discussant
Computational Approaches to Urban Planning and Management: Innovations and Challenges.
Spatial Patterns in Vacancy, Demolition, Infill and Brownfield Redevelopment.
Redevelopment and Marginalized Populations at Three Scales: Individual, Neighborhood, and City.
Shifting Geographies of Development.
Innovation in the Climate Economy.
Transportation and Urban Land Use.
Session Organized and Chaired
Transfer of Development Rights for Managed Coastal Retreat: Conceptual Design and Practical Applications.
Changing Labor Market: Time for New Strategies.
Bridging Economic Development Research with Practice.
Sustainability and Equity-Oriented Economic Development Strategies.
What’s Next in Economic Development?
Promoting Social Equity with Economic Development Practice.
Reimaging the Post-Pandemic Economic Future of Florida.
Urban Data Science in Economic Development Research and Teaching.
The Application of Data Science in Economic Development.
Future-Oriented Economic Development Strategies.
Boosting Local Economic Development with Infrastructure, Industrial Strategy and Entrepreneurship Policy.
Conference Presentations
Fang, L., Staley, S., Erlebacher, G., Xu, C., Wen, Y., Zhang, J. Power Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Planning-Related Decisions through Communication.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. What Locations in the National Innovation-Collaboration Network Benefit Regional Economic Resilience?
Amalbert, K., Fang, L.. Making the Invisible Visible: An Analysis of Social Network Creation and Usage between Florida Public Housing Units and Local Businesses before, during, and after COVID-19 Regulations.
Fang, L., Linkous, E., Holmes, T., Lammers, A. Transfer of Development Rights for Managed Coastal Retreat: Conceptual Design and Practical Applications.
Wen, Y., Fang, L., Hou, J. Evolution of the Urban Planning Research Landscape: Mapping 30-Years' Meaning Shifts of Key Terms in JAPA, JPER, JPL.
Song, Y., Fang, L. A Meta-Analysis of Comparing Smart Growth and Smart Decline.
Fang, L., Staley, S., Erlebacher, G., Zhang, J., Wen, Y. Network Power or Power Penetrated Network? An Analysis of the Communication Network in an Economic Development Project.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. How Can Innovation Network Structure Influence Post-Disaster Economic Resilience?
Fang, L. A Text-Mining and Bibliographic Analysis of the Urban Economic Development Literature: 1959-2020.
Fang, L. Bifurcated Roads: Equitable Economic Development Strategies across Geography.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. How Does the Collaborative Network Structure Affect Innovation? A study of Florida’s Healthcare Industry.
Fang, L. The Evolution of Economic Development Research.
Fang, L. Supporting Small Businesses: Retail Stores during Covid-19.
Fang, L., Adelakun, F., Goetemann, T. Brewing Entrepreneurship: Coffee and Startups.
Fang, L., Slaper, T. Nowcasting Entrepreneurship: Urban Third Place v.s. The Creative Class.
Wen, Y., Fang, L., Li, Q. How is the Commercial Real Estate Market Fairing during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)?
Fang, L., Drucker, L. Urban Agglomerations: How Far Does Their Effect Extend?
Fang, L. How Many Truck Driving Jobs Will Autonomous Vehicle Eliminate? And Are We Prepared?
Fang, L., Ewing, R. Thirty Years of Publications in JAPA, JPER and JPL.
Fang, L., Rao, F. When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability: An Analysis of Firm Innovation in Baltimore City, USA and Melbourne City, Australia.
Fang, L. Targeting Industry for Innovation.
Fang, L. Do Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Improve Innovativeness in Clusters?
Fang, L. The Spatial Scale and Effect on Innovation of (All) Industrial Clusters.
Fang, L. Informed Industry Targeting: Grow Clusters in Learning Industries at Optimal Sizes.
Fang, L. Cluster and Innovation: Selection or Learning?
Fang, L., He, P., Chen, H., Yao, Y., & Tian, C. Seize the Opportunity: Clear China’s Sky with Mega-Events.
Fang, L. Do Stringent Quotas Slow Down Construction Land Expansion in China?
Fang, L. The Cluster-Innovation Relationship Revisited.
Fang, L., Li, P. & Song, S. China’s Urban Development Policies and City Size Dynamics: An Analysis based on the Zipf’s law and the Gibrat’s Law.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Housing and Marital Matching in China: A Signaling Perspective.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Land and Growth under the Framework of Endogenous Growth Theory: Theoretical Model and Evidence from China.
Fang, L. Promotion Incentive and Local Enforcement of Nation-Wide Land Preservation Regulation.
Fang, L. Do Clusters Encourage Innovation? A Meta-Analysis.
Tian, C., Fang, L. More Industrial Land or More Residential Land? Land Structural Supply Strategies of Local Government.
Tian, C., Fang, L. A Good House Gets You a Good Wife.
Tian, C., Fang L. Land Adjustment and Land Rental Market: The Dual Perspectives of Quantity and Quality.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Tenure Security, Rural Housing Rental Market and Housing Investment: Evidence from 24 Villages in Hangzhou.
Tian, C., Fang, L. The Impact of Rural Land Rental Market on Land Redistribution under HRS.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Suburban Rural Housing Rental Market: Effect on Land and Income Allocation.
Public Scholarship
Expert Opinion: A Tale of Two Schools: Exploring Food Access Between FAMU and FSU. WFSU News. December 20, 2023.
Expert Opinion: 2018’s Fastest-Growing Cities in America. Wallet Hub. Oct 1, 2018.
Podcast Episode: Sparkle Innovation in Co-Working Space.
Podcast Episode: Career and Life of an Assistant Professor.
Urban Data Science in Planning.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2023.
Evolution of the Urban Planning Research Landscape: Mapping 30-Years' Meaning Shifts Using Deep Learning Language Model.
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2023.
Managing Your Time as an Emergent Researcher.
- The 51st Urban Affairs Association Conference, Nashville, April 2023. Photo and post by co-moderator
Advanced Topics in Urban Studies & Planning.
- The International Association of Chinese Planners, Gainesville, December 2022.
Communication Dynamics, Voting Behaviors and Corruption in Local Economic Development Projects.
- The American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, June and July 2022.
- Zhejiang University, Online, July 2022.
The Golden Compass Workshop: Career Trajectories Panel.
- Denver, May 2022.
UAA Webinar Series: Career Navigation for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Professionals and Students.
- Urban Affairs Association, Online, January 2021.
UAA Webinar Series: Basic Skills for Online Teaching.
- Urban Affairs Association, Online, October 2020.
The COVID-19 Effect: Tackling Racial, Economic, and Gender Inequities.
- College of Social Science and Public Policy, FSU, Online, October 2020
Let Computer Reads for You: The Use of Text Analysis in Social Science and Literature Study.
- Zhejiang University, Online, August 2020.
Career Development: How to Apply for Academic Jobs.
- The International Association Chinese Planning, Online, August 2020.
Tracking our Footsteps: Thirty Years of Publications in JAPA, JPER and JPL.
- National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, College Park, December 2019.
- DeVoe L. Moore Center, FSU, Tallahassee, October 2019.
- DURP Doctoral Colloquium, FSU, Tallahassee October 2019.
Retooling Our Pedagogy & Practice in Economic Development Planning.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Buffalo, October 2018.
Seize the Opportunity: Clear China’s Sky with Mega-Events.
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, May 2017. news article in Chinese
Housing and Marital Matching: A Signaling Perspective.
- Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, May 2017.
The Use of Quasi-Experimental Methods in Policy Evaluation.
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2016.
Meta-Analysis and Its Applications in Social Science.
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2015. poster in Chinese
Invited Discussant
Computational Approaches to Urban Planning and Management: Innovations and Challenges.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2023.
Spatial Patterns in Vacancy, Demolition, Infill and Brownfield Redevelopment.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2022.
Redevelopment and Marginalized Populations at Three Scales: Individual, Neighborhood, and City.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, November 2020.
Shifting Geographies of Development.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Greenville, October 2019.
Innovation in the Climate Economy.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Buffalo, October 2018.
Transportation and Urban Land Use.
- The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference, Washington, DC, May 2018.
Session Organized and Chaired
Transfer of Development Rights for Managed Coastal Retreat: Conceptual Design and Practical Applications.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, September 2023.
Changing Labor Market: Time for New Strategies.
- The 51st Urban Affairs Association Conference, Nashville, April 2023.
Bridging Economic Development Research with Practice.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2022.
Sustainability and Equity-Oriented Economic Development Strategies.
- The 50th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2020.
What’s Next in Economic Development?
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Miami, October 2021.
Promoting Social Equity with Economic Development Practice.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, October 2021.
Reimaging the Post-Pandemic Economic Future of Florida.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, Miami, September 2021.
Urban Data Science in Economic Development Research and Teaching.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, November 2020.
The Application of Data Science in Economic Development.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Greenville, October 2019.
Future-Oriented Economic Development Strategies.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, Sandestin, September 2019.
Boosting Local Economic Development with Infrastructure, Industrial Strategy and Entrepreneurship Policy.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, September 2018.
Conference Presentations
Fang, L., Staley, S., Erlebacher, G., Xu, C., Wen, Y., Zhang, J. Power Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Planning-Related Decisions through Communication.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2023.
- The 52st Urban Affairs Association Conference, New York City, April 2024.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. What Locations in the National Innovation-Collaboration Network Benefit Regional Economic Resilience?
- The 52st Urban Affairs Association Conference, New York City, April 2024.
Amalbert, K., Fang, L.. Making the Invisible Visible: An Analysis of Social Network Creation and Usage between Florida Public Housing Units and Local Businesses before, during, and after COVID-19 Regulations.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2023.
- The 52st Urban Affairs Association Conference, New York City, April 2024.
Fang, L., Linkous, E., Holmes, T., Lammers, A. Transfer of Development Rights for Managed Coastal Retreat: Conceptual Design and Practical Applications.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 2023.
Wen, Y., Fang, L., Hou, J. Evolution of the Urban Planning Research Landscape: Mapping 30-Years' Meaning Shifts of Key Terms in JAPA, JPER, JPL.
- The 51st Urban Affairs Association Conference, Nashville, April 2023.
Song, Y., Fang, L. A Meta-Analysis of Comparing Smart Growth and Smart Decline.
- The 51st Urban Affairs Association Conference, Nashville, April 2023.
Fang, L., Staley, S., Erlebacher, G., Zhang, J., Wen, Y. Network Power or Power Penetrated Network? An Analysis of the Communication Network in an Economic Development Project.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2022.
- The North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Montreal, November 2022.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. How Can Innovation Network Structure Influence Post-Disaster Economic Resilience?
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2022.
Fang, L. A Text-Mining and Bibliographic Analysis of the Urban Economic Development Literature: 1959-2020.
- The 61st Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Scottsdale, February 2022.
Fang, L. Bifurcated Roads: Equitable Economic Development Strategies across Geography.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, October 2021.
Wen, Y., Fang, L. How Does the Collaborative Network Structure Affect Innovation? A study of Florida’s Healthcare Industry.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, October 2021.
Fang, L. The Evolution of Economic Development Research.
- International Association of China Planning Annual Conference, Online, September 2021.
Fang, L. Supporting Small Businesses: Retail Stores during Covid-19.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, Miami, September 2021.
Fang, L., Adelakun, F., Goetemann, T. Brewing Entrepreneurship: Coffee and Startups.
- International Association of China Planning Annual Conference, Online, December 2020.
Fang, L., Slaper, T. Nowcasting Entrepreneurship: Urban Third Place v.s. The Creative Class.
- The 67th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Online, November 2020.
Wen, Y., Fang, L., Li, Q. How is the Commercial Real Estate Market Fairing during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)?
- The 67th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Online, November 2020.
- International Association of China Planning Annual Conference, Online, June 2021.
Fang, L., Drucker, L. Urban Agglomerations: How Far Does Their Effect Extend?
- The 66th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Pittsburg, November 2019.
Fang, L. How Many Truck Driving Jobs Will Autonomous Vehicle Eliminate? And Are We Prepared?
- The 50th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2020.
- The American Planning Association Florida Chapter Annual Meeting, Sandestin, September 2019.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Online, November 2020.
Fang, L., Ewing, R. Thirty Years of Publications in JAPA, JPER and JPL.
- The 49th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Los Angeles, April 2019.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Greenville, October 2019.
Fang, L., Rao, F. When Industry Diversity Meets Walkability: An Analysis of Firm Innovation in Baltimore City, USA and Melbourne City, Australia.
- Industry Studies Association Annual Conference, Nashville, May 2019.
- American Association of Geographies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2019.
Fang, L. Targeting Industry for Innovation.
- American Planning Association Capital Chapter, Makeover Montgomery 4, Silver Spring, May 2018.
Fang, L. Do Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Improve Innovativeness in Clusters?
- The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 2018.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Buffalo, October 2018.
Fang, L. The Spatial Scale and Effect on Innovation of (All) Industrial Clusters.
- The 57th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Pasadena, February 2018.
Fang, L. Informed Industry Targeting: Grow Clusters in Learning Industries at Optimal Sizes.
- The 47th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Minneapolis, April 2017.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Denver, October 2017.
- Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference, Chicago, November 2017.
- The 64th Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver, November 2017.
Fang, L. Cluster and Innovation: Selection or Learning?
- The 63nd annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Minneapolis, November 2016.
- 2017 American Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2017.
- The 56th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Santa Fe, February 2017.
- International Association of China Planning Annual Conference, Harbin, June 2017.
- International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China, Xiamen, June 2017.
Fang, L., He, P., Chen, H., Yao, Y., & Tian, C. Seize the Opportunity: Clear China’s Sky with Mega-Events.
- American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, September 2016.
- International Association of China Planning Annual Conference, Harbin, June 2017.
Fang, L. Do Stringent Quotas Slow Down Construction Land Expansion in China?
- The 62nd Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Portland, November 2015.
Fang, L. The Cluster-Innovation Relationship Revisited.
- The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, Houston, October 2015.
Fang, L., Li, P. & Song, S. China’s Urban Development Policies and City Size Dynamics: An Analysis based on the Zipf’s law and the Gibrat’s Law.
- The 4th International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China, Beijing, June 2015.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Housing and Marital Matching in China: A Signaling Perspective.
- American Real Estate Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Fort Myer, April 2015. doctoral fellowship recipient
- The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2014.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Land and Growth under the Framework of Endogenous Growth Theory: Theoretical Model and Evidence from China.
- Western Regional Science Association 54th Annual Meeting, Tucson, February 2015.
- The 2nd International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China, Beijing, June 2013.
Fang, L. Promotion Incentive and Local Enforcement of Nation-Wide Land Preservation Regulation.
- The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Annual Conference, Nanjing, July 2014. best paper award
- The 61st Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Washington, D.C., November 2014.
Fang, L. Do Clusters Encourage Innovation? A Meta-Analysis.
- Summer School of New Structural Economics and Structural Transformation in Africa, Beijing, June 2014.
Tian, C., Fang, L. More Industrial Land or More Residential Land? Land Structural Supply Strategies of Local Government.
- Chinese Economist Association Annual Conference, Jinan, December 2012.
- Chinese Institutional Economists Association Annual Conference, Jinan, November 2012. best paper award
Tian, C., Fang, L. A Good House Gets You a Good Wife.
- The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Annual Conference, Macau, July 2012. best paper award
Tian, C., Fang L. Land Adjustment and Land Rental Market: The Dual Perspectives of Quantity and Quality.
- Chinese Economist Association Annual Conference, Shanghai, December 2011.
- Chinese Young Economists Association Annual Conference, Beijing, October 2011.
Fang, L., Tian, C. Tenure Security, Rural Housing Rental Market and Housing Investment: Evidence from 24 Villages in Hangzhou.
- The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Annual Conference, Hangzhou, April 2011.
Tian, C., Fang, L. The Impact of Rural Land Rental Market on Land Redistribution under HRS.
- The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Annual Conference, Hangzhou, April 2011. best paper award
Fang, L., Tian, C. Suburban Rural Housing Rental Market: Effect on Land and Income Allocation.
- Chinese Real Estate Association Annual Conference, Hangzhou, October 2010. best paper award
Public Scholarship
Expert Opinion: A Tale of Two Schools: Exploring Food Access Between FAMU and FSU. WFSU News. December 20, 2023.
- Also interviewed in a same-titled documentary. Watch here https://youtu.be/HMS8MtU5Mqw
Expert Opinion: 2018’s Fastest-Growing Cities in America. Wallet Hub. Oct 1, 2018.
Podcast Episode: Sparkle Innovation in Co-Working Space.
- Across the Universe. June 1, 2021.
- Available through Apple Podcast. listen here (in Chinese)
Podcast Episode: Career and Life of an Assistant Professor.
- Across the Universe. June 8, 2021.
- Available through Apple Podcast. listen here (in Chinese)