CHEN, Hung-Ying
CONTACT INFO
CHEN, Hung-Ying
Associate Professor
Office : Room 601, Department of Geography
Email :
Phone : +886-2-33665835
Website : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4938-6277
BIOS
As an urban and economic geographer, my research explores how the space above ground — as property, atmosphere, and the built volume of the city — becomes an object of governance, finance, and collective claim. Drawing on ethnographic and comparative methods across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Manila, and on earlier experience in urban grassroots organising across Asia, I work across three interrelated research streams.
The first examines air rights as a fiscal and planning instrument: how municipalities convert vertical urban space into revenue, finance transit-oriented development, and how these instruments are differentially deployed across cities in northern Taiwan. The second, developed through the ERC-funded Density Assemblages project at Durham University, addresses density, habitability, and pandemic urbanism — arguing for density as a lived and unevenly produced condition rather than a planning metric. The third extends this inquiry into elemental and energy geographies: in collaboration with anthropologists and indigenous studies scholars, I work on the geothermal fields of Taitung, asking how elements that resist enclosure — air, heat, the subsurface — are drawn into property regimes and energy orders. More recently, I have been examining how the current wave of AI infrastructure expansion is remaking peri-urban East Asia, with fieldwork in southern Taiwan's science-park corridors and comparative cases in Japan and South Korea.
I serve on the Advisory Board of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS) and am volume editor for the Springer Nature the Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies (Górska & Škof, eds.).
Prior to joining NTU in 2026, I was Associate Professor at the International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University (2021–2026), and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography, Durham University (2018–2021), where I also completed my PhD.
If any of the above themes and approaches resonates with your own interests, please do get in touch.
RESEARCH
Urban Infrastructure, Peri-Urban and Urban Studies, Urban Political Economy, Cultural Economy, Vertical and Volumetric Urbanism, Energy and Elemental Geographies, Comparative Urbanism
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of Geography, Durham University (2019)
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2014)
M.Sc., Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2008)
B.Sc., Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University (2005)
COURSES
Research Methods in Geography;
Sustainable Development and Urban Politics;
Urban Geography;
Sustainable Cities Practicum: Critical Spatial Analysis and Social Design
PUBLICATIONS
| 作者 | 出版年月 | 著作名稱 | 收錄出處 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 陳虹穎 | 2026-08 | 奪回誰的城市權利？重探台灣反迫遷運動經驗 | 台灣社會研究季刊 |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Sasha Engelmann | 2026-06 | Introduction – Breathing Spaces | Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2026-06 | Inside/Outside | Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies |
| 陳虹穎 | 2025-01 | 移地與多點研究 | 田野敲敲門2:調查研究再進攻 |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Colin McFarlane | 2025-01 | Density and precarious housing: overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong | Housing Studies |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Colin McFarlane, Priyam Tripathy | 2024-06 | Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei | Urban Studies |
| Marijn Nieuwenhuis, Hung-Ying Chen | 2024-01 | Respiratory Negotiations: The Elemental Biopolitics of Medical Masks in Times of Atmospheric Crisis | Political Geography |
| 陳虹穎 | 2023-12 | 重探都市金融化:探索大臺北都市空權經濟化的過程 | 臺灣社會學刊 |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2023-03 | Follow the thing: Air rights | Dialogues in Human Geography |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2023-?? | Book Review: Densifying the City? Global Cases and Johannesburg, edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison and Alexandra Appelbaum | Eurasian Geography and Economics |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Romit Chowdhury, Colin McFarlane, Priyam Tripathy | 2020-11 | Rethinking Urban Density: An Introduction | Urban Geography |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2020-11 | Densities of Care | Urban Geography |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Lachlan Barber | 2020-03 | CityPsyche – Hong Kong | CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2020-02 | Cashing in on the Sky: Financialization and urban air rights in the Taipei Metropolitan Area | Regional Studies |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2018 | Book Review: Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá, by Austin Zeiderman | RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group Book Review Series |
| 陳虹穎 | 2016-12 | 空間研究方法論評介─流變中的比較都市論 | 地理學報 |
| Hung-Ying Chen | 2013 | Placemaking in Between Urban Redevelopment: Little Indonesia in Taipei | Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking |
| Hung-Ying Chen, Jiahe Lin | 2010 | Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: The Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships | Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities |
GRANTS
| 年度 | 計畫名稱 | 擔任工作 |
|---|---|---|
| 115 | 南部科技廊帶之空間轉型正義與區域共融策略研擬(1/4) | 共同主持人 |
| 115 | 再造新城:氣候變遷下「半都市地帶」的空權治理與價值協商(2/3) | 計畫主持人 |
| 115 | 水深火熱:臺東地熱發展的量體與元素政治(2/2) | 共同主持人 |
| 114 | 再造新城:氣候變遷下「半都市地帶」的空權治理與價值協商(1/3) | 計畫主持人 |
| 114 | 水深火熱:臺東地熱發展的量體與元素政治(1/2) | 共同主持人 |
| 113 | 永續城市的預期性創新治理:以增額容積作為大眾運輸導向規劃之財政創新工具(2/2) | 計畫主持人 |
| 112 | 永續城市的預期性創新治理:以增額容積作為大眾運輸導向規劃之財政創新工具(1/2) | 計畫主持人 |
| 112 | 打造能源轉型的科技社會基底:北海岸能源民主的跨域研究(2/2) | 協同主持人 |
| 111 | 打造能源轉型的科技社會基底:北海岸能源民主的跨域研究(1/2) | 協同主持人 |
AWARD
• 2024 Shortlisted for Best Paper Award, Urban Studies Journal
• 112學年度國立政治大學教學優良獎 2023 Teaching Excellence Award, National Chengchi University
• 110學年度國立政治大學度院系（所）導師績效獎勵優良導師 2021 Excellent Academic Advisor Award, National Chengchi University
• 2021 Honorary Fellow, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
• 2019 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Urban Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
• 文化研究協會優秀碩士論文獎 2009 Best Master's Dissertation Award, Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan