Xuanyi “Maxwell” Nie
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Selected publications
- Nie, X., Liu, H., Han, M., and Guan, C. Evaluating Citizen Participation in Local Public Meetings: An Explorative Approach Using LLMs and Transcripts in the United States. Journal of Planning Education and Research. (In Press)
- Nie, X., Yang, H., Lei, X., and Yip, W. Integrating “Aging in Place” and “Aging Well” in China’s Retirement Communities. The Gerontologist. (In Press)
- Qiao, R., Nie, X.*, and Heng, C. K. (2025). Concessionary Governance: The Shifting Local Statecraft in Nanjing’s Innovation-Driven Urban Redevelopment. Urban Studies. (In Press)
- Nie, X. Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region. Regional Studies, 59(1), 2534690.
- Nie, X., Huang, Z., and Wu, L. (2025). Community Governance During the Shanghai COVID Lockdown III: The Changing Perception of the City. Population, Space and Place, 31(6), e70084.
- Nie, X., Fan, H,. and Liu, H. (2025). The “push and pull” factors in firm location choices: Financial regulations and headquarters in China. Cities, 167, 106316。
- Wu, L., Zhou, Y., Nie, X., Kim S. K., Guan, C., and Shao, Y. (2025). Buffering effects of green space on residents’ mental wellbeing: A regression discontinuity analysis during “exiting from zero-COVID. Cities. 168, 106413.
- Fan, H., Huang, W., Nie, X., and Zhang, T. (2025). Social Capital and the Health Status of Rural-to-Urban Older Migrants: A Machine Learning-Based Analysis. Journal of Urban Affairs. (Online First)
- Nie, X., Huang, Z., and Wu, L. (2024). Community Governance During the Shanghai COVID Lockdown II: Bridging Neighborhood Cohesion and the Perception of Community Governance. Cities, 151, 105110.
- Nie, X., Huang, Z., and Wu, L. (2024). Community Governance During the Shanghai COVID Lockdown I: The Roles and Actions of Residents’ Committees. Urban Geography, 45(9), 1640-1660.
- Nie, X., and Liu, H. (2024). Medical Institutions in the Geography of Innovation: Evidence from Public Tertiary Hospitals and Biotech Startups in Chinese Cities. Regional Studies, 58(3), 507–521.
- Nie, X. (2024). The Ivory Tower in China’s Speculative Urbanism: Instrumentalizing the University-Healthcare Nexus. Urban Geography, 45(6), 966-985.
- Nie, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, C., Zhao, Y., and Kirkwood, N. (2024). The varied restorative values of campus landscapes to students’ well-being: evidence from a Chinese University. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 487.
- NIE, X., ZHOU, Y., & LIU, S. (2024). 德国“多代屋”住房模式 (Multi Generational Housing In Germany). Urban China Magazine: The German Model, 95, 202-211. [In Chinese]
- Wang, X., and Nie, X.* (2024). Understanding the Uneven Distribution of Medical Resources in China Through the Disparity in Inter-City Patient Mobility for Severe Diseases. Applied Geography, 165, 103226
- Wu, L., Zhou, Y., Nie, X., Kim, S. K., Shao, Y., & Guan, C. (2024). “Unfenced” parks and residents’ visit patterns: A regression discontinuity design in Shanghai. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 100, 128459.
- Nie, X. (2023). The ‘medical city’ and China’s entrepreneurial state: Spatial production under rising consumerism in healthcare. Urban Studies, 60(6), 1102-1122.
- Nie, X. (2023). The “medical city” in China’s transforming urbanism: conceptualizing the medical-university-industry linkage. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 22(4), 2420-2434.
- Nie, X., Han, M., & Yang, D. (2023). Escaping from the identity enclave: Social inclusion events and floating migrants’ settlement intention in China. Population, Space and Place, 29(7), e2695.
- Fan, H., Nie, X.*, and Wilson, S. (2023). Impacts of Material Possessions and Social Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19: An Evidence-Based Study of the Urban Working-Age Population in the United States. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 18(1), 561–599.
- Nie, X. (2021). Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach. Urban Research & Practice, 14(3), 325-339.