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Dr. Shenglin Chang
Retired Associate Professor
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Chang is no longer affiliated with the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Please address any questions or concerns to the appropriate section listed above.

Shenglin Chang received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2000, and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Marylands Landscape Architecture Program. Born in Taiwan, she has developed and implemented innovative approaches to public involvement in environmental issues through civic arts, community design participation, and social-political activism. She received the 2004 CELA Award of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching in Landscape Architecture (CELA Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture). She is currently researching the transformations of Asian and Latino immigrants lifestyles and identities in the suburban DC-Maryland region. Her book, The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture, has recently been published by the Stanford University Press (2006). Her recent essays include: "Transcultural Home Identity Across the Pacific," in Urban Ethnic Encounters (Routledge, 2002); Breaking Silicon Silence, in Challenging the Chip (Temple, forthcoming); and, Home here, Home There, in Landscape Review 9(1). She has edited and co-authored two books (translated into Chinese) with Randy Hester: Living Landscape and A Theory for Building Community. Her teaching focuses on issues related to landscape and identity across world cultures.

Research focus

Global landscape changes

Identity and cultural landscape

Social cultural factors in design

Cross-cultural and collaborative design education

Open space design for multi-ethnic users

Immigrants Lifestyles and Smart Growth

Sustainable Community Planning and Design

Eco-tourism, Landscape Preservation and Rural Development

Transfer Development Rights

East Asian high-tech landscape and planning

Selected Publications:

a. Books

i. Books authored

1999 Randolph T. Hester, Jr., Shenglin Chang. A Theory for Building Community: Dreams and Experiments of Participatory Design (revised edition). Taipei, Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd. The book was published in Chinese. Significance: the book was selected by Chinatimes (the most popular newspaper in Taiwan) for the 1999 best book list.)

2006 Shenglin Chang. The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Cultures. Stanford University Press. [http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5215%20%20 30%] The book is included in Stanford University Presss highly respected Asian America Series, edited by Gordon H. Chang.

ii. Books edited

1999 Randolph T. Hester, Jr., Shenglin Chang, and Shih Wang: Living Landscape: Reading Cultural Landscape Experiences in Taiwan and America, Taipei, Taiwan: United Force Culture Enterprise Co., Ltd.

iii. Book sections edited

2006 Challenging the Chips: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Edited by David N. Pellow, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Ted Smith. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Responsible for co-editing Environmental Justice and Labor Rights section with Dr. Andrew Watterson. (Accepted)

iv. Chapters in books Refereed chapters

2002 Shenglin Chang. Transcultural Home Identity Across the Pacific: A Case Study of High-tech Taiwanese Transnational Communities in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Silicon Valley, USA. In Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences. Colombijn, Freek; Erdentug, Aygen, eds. London: Routledge. 143 159 pp.

2003 Shenglin Chang. Transcultural Home Identity Across the Pacific: A case study of high-tech Taiwanese transnational communities in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Silicon Valley, USA. Metropolitan ethnic cultures: Maintenance and interaction. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress (July 24-28 2000 Beijing, China). China Urban Anthropology Association ed. China: Academy Press. 6-43 pp.

2006 Shenglin Chang; Hua-mei Chiu; Wenling Tu. Breaking the Silicon Silence: Giving Voice to Health and Environmental Impacts Within Taiwans Hsinchu Science Park. In Challenging the Chips: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Edited by David N. Pellow, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Ted Smith. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Senior author] (Accepted)

2006 Andrew Watterson and Shenglin Chang. Section Introduction: Environmental Justice and Labor Rights. In Challenging the Chips: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Edited by David N. Pellow, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Ted Smith. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Second author] Accepted.

Forthcoming Shenglin Chang. Homes Across the Waters: The Construction of Gender and Landscape Within a Trans-Pacific Life. In book proposal A Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in Landscape Architecture. A book proposal prepared by Louise Mozingo and Linda Jewell in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley. (Under review: The proposal has passed the external review process.)

Non-refereed chapters

1994 Shenglin Chang. A Tour Guide toward the underworld in Folk Religion, Public Arts, and Urban Fringe Life: The 1992 Chinese Halloween Public Art Festival in Taipei County. Huang, Shui-Rou, ed.. Taipei: Avant-garde Publishers. (in Chinese)

Shenglin Chang. Installations of Unanticipated Landscape Arts. Both chapters were in Folk Religion, Public Arts, and Urban Fringe Life: The 1992 Chinese Halloween Public Art Festival in Taipei County. Huang, Shui-Rou, ed.. Taipei: Avant-garde Publishers. (in Chinese)

2002 Shenglin Chang; Margarita Hill. Re-shaping the Circle: Building Consensus with Friends Communities in Costa Rica and Sandy Spring, US. A book chapter in Building Cultural Diversity Through Participation. John K.C. Liu; Yuh-Jean Chen; Liling Huang eds. Taipei: Council of Cultural Affairs, The Executive Yuan. 182 223 pp. [(In English and Chinese)

2005 John K.C. Liu and Shenglin Chang, Making Home away from Home: The Transformation of Chinese American Chinatown in San Francisco. in My Place. Edited by Winifred Sin, Yeh Yuan-hung, Julia Tsai, and Fu Ling. Taipei: Net and Books Press. [Senior author] (in Chinese)

v. Web eBook Publication

2001 Shenglin Chang, Wenling Tu, Wen-Chuan Yang, and Li-fang Yang. A Study of the Environmental and Social Aspects of the Taiwanese and US Companies in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park. Commissioned by Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, the Natural Heritage Institute and Human Rights Advocates. Berkeley. [http://www.nautilus.org/cap/reports/TaiwanReport.PDF] [Principal Investigator and co-author with three other researchers. Significance: the first comprehensive assessment for the environmental and social impacts from the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan]

2004 Shenglin Chang. Can City Lifestyle be a Catalyst for Smart Suburban Change? A Comparative Investigation into How Asian and Latino Immigrants Prior Urban Experiences, and Americans Prior Suburban Experiences Can Inform the Future Planning and Growth of Maryland Suburbs. The National Center for Smart Growth and Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. [http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1926]

b. Articles in Refereed Journals

i. Refereed journals

1999 Shenglin Chang (Zhang Shenglin), John K.C. Liu (Liu Keqiang) published 1 article: The Performance Hall of Cultural Center, Yilan County, Taiwan, China. World Architecture, Vol. 9, 1999: 46 48 pp. Beijing, China. [Senior author] (in Chinese)

2003 John K.C. Liu, Shenglin Chang. Constructing a Critical Transcultural Local Design Language: A Review of the Impact of Pattern Language on the Design of I-lan Performing Arts Center. City and Design: An Academic Journal for Intercity Networking. March 2003, No. 13/14: 371-394. (in Chinese)

2004 Shenglin Chang. Abstract of Home Here, Home There: The Lives and Landscapes within High-tech Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture. Landscape Review 9 (1): 14 p.

2005 Shenglin Chang. Home Here, Home There: The Lives and Landscapes within High-tech Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture. Landscape Review 10 (1&2): 10-15 pp.

2003 Shenglin Chang. From House to Home: An Intergenerational Participatory Experiment in An Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Studio. Selected Conference Papers CELA 2002: GroundWork: 77-82 pp. (CELA Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture)

2005 Shenglin Chang. Seeing Landscape through Cross-cultural Eyes: Embracing a transcultural lens towards multi-lingual design approaches in the landscape studio. Landscape Journal 24:2-05: 140-156pp.

ii. Guest editor for a Special Issue in a Refereed Journal

2005 Guest editor for a special issue in Landscape Journal: Teaching with Cultures in Mind: Cross-cultural Landscape Architecture Education. I co-edited this issue with Margarita Hill. The special issue is in collaboration with Margarita Hill (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Jeff Hou (University of Washington, Seattle. USA), Isami Kinoshita (Chiba University), Laura Lawson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David Myers (University of Maryland), Sawako Ono (Chiba University).

iii. Invited Articles in Refereed Journals

2004 Shenglin Chang. Across-the-ocean Silicon Valley Homes: Transplanting Suburban American Dreams Across the Pacific Rim. Landscape Architecture Quarterly. Vol. 51, June 2004: 5-12 pp. (in Chinese) Forthcoming Shenglin Chang. Urban Grown, Suburban Bound: Asian and Latino Immigrant Home Identities in Suburban Washington DC, in a theme issue on "Residential Experience of Immigrants in North America." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. (The theme issue proposal is accepted and forthcoming).

Learn more about Dr. Chang at http://www.psla.umd.edu/faculty/FacultyInfo.cfm?ID=14