BING WANG, DDes, teaches at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) as a Lecturer in Urban Design and Real Estate for the last five years. She also holds a six-year appointment as a visiting professor at the University of Ulster and a visiting lectureship at the University of Cambridge in Great Britain. She received her Doctor of Design degree and Master degree from Harvard University and Bachelor of Architecture degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her academic research has focused on the interplays between the formal representation of a society and its underlying economic driving forces and social structure. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Planning Theory and Practice, an academic journal published in conjunction between the Royal Town Planning Institute of Britain and Routledge in London; and is also on the board of Sustainable Real Estate, a journal of American Real Estate Society. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, and in the books Crossing Borders (2010), Urbanization in China (2007) and Regenerating Older Suburbs (2007). She is the co-editor of Nexus – Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Design (2005), and her forthcoming book, The Architectural Profession and Modernity in China, is to be published by China Foreign Languages Press this year. Dr. Wang’s professional practice has focused on the intersections of form creation and capital markets operation of the physical environment. She worked as an investment consultant at Lehman Brothers in Asia, focusing on the financial investments of non-performing loans and large-scale urban developments, and was the founding principal of an investment management company in Shanghai, linking institutional capitals with the Chinese property markets. Her recent work includes value-creation strategies for a shopping mall located in the old city of Shanghai, a mixed-use development project in Tbilisi, Georgia, and a 460-acre land use planning and urban design project of the Dianshan Lake area in Shanghai.