Chiaradia, Alain
BArch & MArch (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille); AA Grad Dipl; GDip (Distinction), London
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Alain is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning and Design. He is the Programme Director of the Master of Urban Design. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, he was Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the Cardiff University’s School of Geography and Planning.
His research interests are in spatial and urban design in relation to economic, social and environmental impacts, using spatial network design analysis to understand design properties of activity location systems of large conurbations in the USA, UK, France and China. At Cardiff University, he led the conceptual development of spatial design network analysis software (sDNA, http://www.cardiff.ac.uk./sdna/).
Alain was previously Executive and Board Director at the global consultancy Space Syntax Ltd. where he directed large scale projects concerning spatial policy analysis, urban design policy formulation and evidence-based spatial design in major cities including Paris, London, Boston, Shanghai. Clients included Greater London Authority and the London Boroughs. He has advised leading international urban design practices such as ARUP Associates, Atelier Jean Nouvel, Farrell & Partners, Foster + Partners, Gehry Partners, Herzog and de Meuron, Hopkins, Martha Schwarz & Partners, and Make.
At Space Syntax, he developed and led innovative services and operational research projects. He was Senior Research Fellow at University College London (2000-09). His work has been widely published in international professional journals. In the UK he has been member of various research project advisory panels at national level. Currently he is on the advisory scientific committee of Efficacity a French R&D PPP centre dedicated to energy transition in urban territories that brings together the skills of over 100 researchers from industry and public research.
He is a founding director of the international CHORA Urban Institute, and an advisor to national research funding institutions in Europe, North America and Asia.
Awards & Achievements
Mr Alain Chiaradia?is invited by Swire Properties to contribute a?short video?to disseminate the?Place Impact Report: The creative Transformation of Island East and Development of Taikoo Place.
EJ Insight, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong. 24 April 2020.『太古地產發布港島東社區營造效益報告』(https://www2.hkej.com/instantnews/stock/article/**)
Hong Kong Economic Times (online), Hong Kong. 24 April 2020.『太古地產發佈首份港島東「社區營造效益報告」 提升社區活力素質』(https://ps.hket.com/article/**)
Now.com, Now TV online, Hong Kong. 24 April 2020.『太古地產發布港島東社區營造效益報告』(https://www.finance.now.com/news/post.php?id=580235&type=local)
Finet, Hong Kong. 24 April 2020.『太古地產(01972-HK)發布港島東社區營造效益報告』(https://www.finet.hk/newscenter/news_content/5ea2e564bde0b33df47402c8)
Pacific Rim Construction, Hong Kong. 5 May 2020.『太古地产发布首份 港岛东「社区营造效益报告」』(https://www.prc-magazine.com/sc/太古地产发布首份-港岛东「社区营造效益报告」/)
In a worldwide request for proposal by the World Bank Group, the MUD program with Mr Chiaradia as Programme Director was selected as a preferred master degree program by the Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJWBGSP), from the incoming 2020 to 2024/25 academic year cohort of JJWBGSP-funded scholars.
Mr Chiaradia and his team member, Professor Chris Webster, Dr Guibo Sun and Dr Chinmoy Sarkar received Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award 2019 on a project entitled “Spatial Design Network Analysis (sDNA) Improving Evidence-based Urban Planning and Design across Discipline Nationally and Worldwide”.
Under the supervision of Mr Chiaradia, Programme Director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD), the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design (HKIUD) officially announced the 5-year accreditation for MUD programme on 18 September 2018. ?The HKIUD will nominate an HKIUD professional member as MUD co-external examiner.
Grants
“Strategies for Enhancing Walkability in Hong Kong via Smart Policies”, PICO Stragetic Public Policy Research
“Pedestrian Volume Sampling in Multi-levels Build Environment in Hong Kong”, Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Selected Publications
Zhou, Y., Zhang, L., & Chiaradia, A.J.F. (2021). An adaptation of reference class forecasting for the assessment of large-scale urban planning vision, a SEM-ANN approach to the case of Hong Kong, Lantau tomorrow.?Land Use Policy, 109, 105701.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105701
Zhang, L., Cui, M., Chiaradia, A.J.F. (2021). Evaluating human centered accessibility of open space in high density cities, a case study of Hong Kong (in Chinese). Landscape Architecture, 189(28), 34-39.
Sieh, L., Chiaradia, A., Jones, S., & Waters, F. (2021). The value gradient map. Urban Design, 157, Winter.
Meng, S., Rifat Ara, M., Zhang, S., & Chiaradia, A. (2020). TOD, volumetric TOD, destination, public space and community cohesion, urbanie & urbanus. HKIUD Journal, 4, 33-49.
Chiaradia, A., Jones, S., Sieh, L., & Waters, F. (2020). TOD: A tool for value assessment, a multi-scale value gradient map. Architecture and Technique, (26)9, 90-95.
Cui, M., & Chiaradia, A. (2020). Volumetric urban design. An exploratory typology of multi-level pedestrian network in Hong Kong new town. Architectural and Technique, 26(9), 40-45.
Zhang, L., & Chiaradia, A. (2020). Evaluation of TOD performances using multi-source big-data – Hong Kong as case study. Architecture and Technique, (26)9, 85-89.
Chiaradia, A.J.F., & Waters, F. (2020). The Creative Transformation of Island East and Development of Taikoo Place: Places Impact Report. Hong Kong: Swire Properties. URL: https://www.swireproperties.com/-/media/files/swireproperties/publications/2020-places-impact-report.ashx
Cooper, H.V.C., & Chiaradia, A.J.F. (2020). sDNA: 3-d spatial network analysis for GIS, CAD, Command Line & Python. Software X, 12, 100525.
Zhang, X., Melbourne, S., Sarkar, C., Chiaradia, A. J. F., & Webster, C. (2020). Effects of green space on walking: Does size, shape and density matter? Urban Studies.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2739
Cooper, C., Harvey, I., Orford, S., & Chiaradia, A. J. F. (2019). Using multiple hybrid spatial design network analysis to predict longitudinal effect of a major city centre redevelopment on pedestrian flows. Transportation.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-10072-0
Zhang, L., Ye, Y., Zeng, W., & Chiaradia, A. J. F. (2019). A systematic measurement of street quality through multi-sourced urban data: A human-oriented analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(10), 1782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph**
Chiaradia, A. J. F. (2019). Urban Morphology/Urban Form. In: A. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (pp. 1-5). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Zhang, L., & Chiaradia, A. J. F. (2019). Three-dimensional Spatial Network Analysis and Its Application in a High Density City Area, Central Hong Kong. Urban Planning International (In Chinese), 34(1), 46-53.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22217/upi.2018.513
