The Making of Hong Kong:
3D pedestrian network as the critical walking infrastructure
The three-dimensional pedestrian network, enabling multi-level city living in a vertical metropolis, is a fundamental consideration in urban planning and design practices for high-density cities.
The Making of Hong Kong:
3D pedestrian network as the critical walking infrastructure
The three-dimensional pedestrian network, enabling multi-level city living in a vertical metropolis, is a fundamental consideration in urban planning and design practices for high-density cities.
A research team within HKUrbanLabs, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
New transport, urban design, and health
We take new metros as the interventions, using natural experiment studies to infer causal effects on active travel, wider health behaviours, and economic outcomes.
Research objectives
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Define new metro as a complex intervention
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Discover natural experiments to infer causal effects on health and social outcomes
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Value the urban design in the metro station areas
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Investigate China's metro development model from home to abroad
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Modelling of volumetric development in high-density cities
Ongoing research
Funded by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Are gated communities capturing the lion's share of metro-created accessibility in Chinese cities? " (2023.03-2024.05)
Dr Guibo Sun, Prof. Chris Webster
Funded by HKU Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Scheme (2022.06-2025.06)
Dr Jinshuo Wang, Dr Guibo Sun, Prof. Kelvin Wong
Funded by NSFC, "Pricing urban design in the walking catchment of metro stations" (2021.01-2025.01)
Dr Guibo Sun, Dongsheng He, Prof. Chris Webster
Funded by HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme (2021.09-2024.09)
Dongsheng He
Funded by HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research, "Reshaping ties to urban environment in later life: A qualitative study exploring the social wellbeing impacts of a new metro line" (2022.07-2025.07)
Yao Du, Dr Eun Yeong Choe, Dr Guibo Sun
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Recent research
Funded by GRF, "Public transport use and health impacts on the elderly: a natural experiment in the high density built environment of Hong Kong" (2018.08-2022.06)
Dr Guibo Sun, Dr Michael Ni, Yao Du
Funded by GRF, "Public transport use and health impacts on the elderly: a natural experiment in the high density built environment of Hong Kong" (2018.08-2022.06)
Dr Guibo Sun, Cheuk Yin Lau
Funded by HKU Seed Fund, "Assessing Transport Infrastructure Development in Belt and Road Initiative: Development of a Protocol for Connectivity Impact Analysis" (2019.03-2021.03)
Dr Guibo Sun
Funded by NSFC, "Natural experimental study of impacts of urban rail transit on sustainable travel in a medium-sized Chinese city" (2016.01-2020.04)
Dr Guibo Sun, Prof. Chris Webster
Funded by URC Seed Fund for Basic Research at
The University of Hong Kong (No. 104005248)
Dr Guibo Sun
