Associate Professor in School of architecture, Tianjin University. She is the deputy director of the Urban and Rural Planning Department and head of the Urban&Rural Heritage Conservation and Renaissance Institute, member of China urban and rural governance and Policy Research Academic Committee CACP.

Research direction:

Urban Regenerration, historical and cultural heritage preservation and development, low carbon city and eco city research.

She has presided over or done as a core member in the National Natural Science Foundations (including major projects, projects and youth projects), National Scientific and Technological Cooperation Projects, Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin, Tianjin Urban System Scientific Research Projects, published and presented a lot of academic papers in journals or conferences. Her recent research focuses on city’s spatial evolution followed ecological law, historical area preservation and safety-development, urban renewal in ecological restoration, the relationshio amone historical heritage property owners& government& non-governmental organizations, urban area transformation and regeneration. She has provided consulting services for China Urban Planning and Research Institute, Urban Planning Institute of Tianjin,Urban Planning Bureau of Tianjin etc. 

•  low carbon city and eco city
• historical and cultural heritage preservation and development
• Urban Regeneration

• the three prize of outstanding achievements in scientific research of national universities in China

• •Xu Xiwei . Xia Qing. Reconstruction of historical and cultural blocks based on public space revival. the 2nd International Symposium on Architecture Heritage Preservation and Sustainable Development Paper Collection.2017
• •Xu Xiwei,Zhang Peng,Bian Guangmeng. The Design for exterior spaces of the urban old residential area.China City Construction. No.10,2010,P145-146.2017
• • He Yongjian,Xu Xiwei,Xin Xin. The Transformation Dynamic and Planning of Emerging Resource Dependent Cities. Planners, No.11,2011,P108-111.2017
• •Xia Qing, Xu Meng, Xu Xiwei .Thinking of the Industrial Heritage Protection and Renewal in Tianjin’s Industrial Land Recombination. Urbanism and Architecture,No.2,2009,P17-19.2017
• •Yun Ying Xia, Xu Xiwei.Comment on the Flexible Control of the Land Use Plan in the Market Oriented Economy System. Journal of Liaoning Normal University (Natural Science Edition), No.2,,2004,P214-217.2017
• •Xu Xiwei,Han Mei.The Livability Design for Public Space of New Residential Areas.Science Times,No.6,2010,P31-32.2017
• •Xu Xiwei, Zen Jian.Ecological Security Evaluation of Land Planning in Tianjin’s Urban Area. International Workshop on Architecture, Civil& Environmental Engineering,（Ei Compendex）.2017
• •Xia Qing, Yun Ying Xia, Xu Xiwei, et.al. The Planning and Environmental Design of Residential Areas. China Building Industry Press .2010..2017
• •Xu Xiwei, Xia Qing,Gao Chang.Theoretical Systems and Technical Methods for the Conservation of Historic Places in China and the UK. international conference (Designing Place)in Nottingham,UK 2012..2017
• •Xiwei XU; Tim HEATH; Yan ZHU; Peng ZHANG; Xue Bai .Investigation on the Application of Ecological Footprint Development Trend in the Sustainable Development of Urban Land Use. GREAT ASIAN STREET SYMPOSIUM, 2014/12/11-2014/12/13, National University of Singapore . pp 305-311.2017
• •XiweiXu, Tim Heath, Qing Xia,Youtian Zhang. DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE CONCENTRATED AREAS IN CHINA. International Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 9 - Issue1, March 2015,pp1-9.2017