• Downtown redevelopment, new centrality strategic development, residential district planning • City master planning• Preservation planning of historic town or site

• Industrial sites ecological repair, large scale productive and recreational landscape design, adaptive planting• Urban park and plaza design, waterfront design, Landscape structure design• Site grading and storm water management

• Site evaluation and market study• Pencil-out model, property appraisal, huff model, Pro Forma

• Analysis, master plan, section, elevation, construction drawings with Auto CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch and Color pencil • Perspective rendering and 3D modeling with Sketchup, Rhino• Laser cut file preparation, model making • Geographical and spatial analysis with Arcmap and Arcscene• Presentation file preparation with Indesign, Illustrator, Adobe acrobat • Animation with Rhino bongo, topography extraction with Google earth and Rhino Terrain

• Writing and editing with Microsoft word, data analysis with Excel, comfortable with Mac system• Native in Mandarin, fluent in English

• Master of Landscape Architecture (3 yrs), University of Pennsylvania (expected in 05.2014) 08.2011-present, Philadelphia, USA• Bachelor of Engineering (5 yrs), Southeast University (major in Urban Planning) 09.2006-06.2011, Nanjing, China

• Analysis of driving facts, current states and social impacts on ghost towns: Kilamba in Angola, Konza Techo city in Kenya, and Eko Atlantic city in Nigeria• Proposals of continued developments • Historic architecture mapping and documentation, preservation/ restoration/ renovation proposal• Ecological condition sampling and analysis: water, soil, vegetation, noise • Tourism impact analysis and tourism planning proposal• Current management policy and conservation policy proposal• Final report writing, graphic drawing, presentation to local administrative department • Research on online shopping development in China and first online shopping plaza in Nanjing• Plaza management study, survey of commercial types, individual shops operating, owner conditions, and customer groups• Paper structuring and writing

Tangshan Archaeological Park Conservation planning and Design, Nanjing, China• Historic documents analysis, previous master planning analysis• Translation and coordination work with Rahamimoff Architects (Israel)• Park planning and design• Presentation to local government presenting Daming Historical Town Urban Design, Henan Province, China.• Final conservation planning drawing Eco-friendly residential district planning, Dalian, Guoxin lakefront residential district planning, Wuxi, China• Draft plan and section drawing, presentation file drawing, model making Master planning of Xiangquan Town, Anhui Province • Site mapping, documentation and analysis• Interview with local administration, social investigation with local residents Dabin Village Rebuild Project, Wenchuan, China• Research and drawing for Dabin village rebuilding project after 2007 Wenchuan earthquake

EXPERTISE AND INTEREST

Urban Planning and Design

Landscape Architecture

Property Development

SKILLSDesign and Drawing

Conservation Department, Southeast University Institute of Architecture Design 06.2012-09.2012, Nanjing, China

Zhubo Architecture and Engineering, Ltd. 06. 2010- 09.2010, Shenzhen, China

Southeast University Institute of Urban planning and Design 01. 2009-02.2009, Nanjing, China

Department of Urban Planning 07.2008-09.2008, Nanjing, China

EDUCATION

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH AND STUDY EXPERIENCE Rapid Urbanization Case Study

01.2013-02.2013

Hongcun and Xidi- World Cultural Heritage Villages Conservation Planning 02.2011-06.2011, Anhui, China

“Nanjing Online Shopping Plaza Status and Its PIanning and Design Countermeasures” Research (Team leader) 04.2008-08.2008

Third Prize of National college students social investigation and report competition 2008 Published in Planners, a core journal of urban planning in mainland China (As second author) 2009

Text, Data and Language

Tianya Yang | Resume4114 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 +1 215 526 1334 tianya@design.upenn.edu

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