Track
Track 1: Understanding Urban Metabolism

Company / Institute
Ningbo Urban Planning and Design Institute

I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
Land use Planning and Management
Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design
Sustainability and Resilience

Bio
Born in 1983, now living in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, senior engineer, Chinese Registered Urban and Rural Planner, graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Now he is working at the Ningbo Urban Planning and Design Institute (NBPI) and is the Vice-director of the NBPI International Cooperation Center and Baidu Huiyan Ningbo Planning and Innovation Laboratory.

Since joining the work, Mr. Ni Mindong has charged and finished over 100 urban planning projects and published more than 20 academic papers in the fields of regional planning, master planning, multi-planning integration, zoning planning and special research. Taking advantage of the opportunity of urban planning and development in China, he has visited London and Paris to study, to assist Chinese cities in international cooperation and exchanges, and to actively explore the innovative application of new technologies such as big data in urban and rural planning.

In addition to the practices of urban planning, Mr. Ni Mindong has a long and close cooperation with ISOCARP since winning the ISOCARP Award in 2014. He has carried out a series of activities with ISOCARP in recent years. He took charge of the UPAT (ISOCARP's Urban Planning Advisory and Team) for the historic section of the Xinmalu District in 2018 and the YPP (ISOCARP Young Planning Professional's Workshop) for the theme of "Child-friendly Urbanization" in 2019. In 2018, he was also involved in urban renewal UPAT in Durban, South Africa with ISOCARP.