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LUO Lan Graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a PhD in Landscape Architecture. Subsequently, she served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Department of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong.
Research Interests: Built environment and public health, environmental psychology, environmental behavior, and virtual reality technology. She is dedicated to intervening in public health upstream by creating healthy urban environments, thereby enhancing the overall health and well-being of the public.
She has led one project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund and participated in five research projects, including the Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC) General Research Fund (GRF), the University of Hong Kong Large Research Equipment Fund, the Vanke Corporate University Research Collaboration Project, a special project in Jiangbei District, Ningbo, and Summer Research Fund at Graduate School of Design, the Harvard University. She has published multiple peer-reviewed academic papers in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Chinese Landscape Architecture. An English monograph is forthcoming, published by Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group.
She has been invited to present at significant conferences, including the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Conference, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual Conference, the International Association for China Planning (IACP) Annual Conference (where she received the Excellent Presentation Award), and the Conference on Landscape for well-being & Horticultural Therapy (as a guest speaker). Additionally, she organized the International Forum of Landscape Architecture: Urban Landscape for people in Hong Kong. She also serves as an executive editorial board member for the Landscape Architecture Frontiers and as a reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
She was awarded the 2016 ASLA Honor Award in Analysis and Planning. As the project leader, she completed the health community design consulting project for Vanke in Hainan and participated in the landscape design project for the health community in Zhujiang, Guangzhou. She exhibited at the 2021 Shanghai Jing'an International Arts Festival and assisted in curating the 2019 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale.
2020 2020 IACP Excellent Presentation Award, 14th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Virtual Conference. Shenzhen, China, December 5-13, 2020.
2016 Honor Award in Analysis and Planning, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Student Awards.
Xu, W., He, J., Luo, L., & Jiang, B. (2024). Greener view, safer drive: Using repeated field experiments and deep transfer learning technique to investigate impacts of urban road landscapes on driving performance. Landscape and Urban Planning, 251, 105156.
Luo, L., & Jiang, B. (2024). Contact with nature: A promising effective strategy for alleviating and recovering from substance addiction: theoretical mechanisms and key issues. Chinese Landscape Architecture, 40(1): 33-39.
Luo, L., Yu, P., & Jiang, B (2023). Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various Bluespaces: an electroencephalography study. Journal of Environmental Psychology,88, 102010.
Luo, L., & Jiang, B. (2022). From oppressiveness to stress: A development of Stress Reduction Theory in the context of contemporary high-density city. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101883.
Luo, L. (2023). Contact with nature as drug treatment: the effects of contact with nature on psycho-physiological symptoms of people with drug use disorder. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR.
Song, J., Luo, L., Wu, Y., Zeng, Q., Zhou, Y., & Song, H. (2023). How width and color variables of greenways affect user satisfaction. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 22(1).
Jiang, B. Luo, L., Liu, X., Liang, W., & Wang, S. (2023). Healthy Landscape and Healthy Resident Landscape: Theoretical Framework and Digital Evaluation System. Chinese Landscape Architecture, 39(2): 13-19.
Zhu, C., Wang, Y., Ren, W, Luo, L., Yin, Y., Xie, W, & Liu, W. (2016) The planning of green spaces to prevent and avoid urban disasters in Dujiangyan. International Journal of Simulation--Systems, Science & Technology, 17(46).
Yu, P., Luo, L., He, J., & Li, X. (2015). Physiological responses of taxus media cv. hicksii under CH2O stress. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, 35(09), 1791-1799.
(1) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund, The effects of exposure to urban green spaces on substance use disorder: a multi-scale and multi-method study. [Project no: 52408096. PI. 2025-2027]
(2) University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong, General Research Fund (GRF), Examining the impact of built environments on the health status and suicidal tendencies of public housing residents in high-density cities: A natural experiment. [Project no: 17606621. Co-I. 2021-2024].
(3) the University of Hong Kong, Large Research Equipment Fund, To use a multi-sensory, immersive, and artificial intelligence-based projection system to examine the impacts of contact with virtual nature on mental health. [Project no: 020300804. Co-I. 2023-2025]
(4) China Vanke Co., Ltd., University Research Fund, Theoretical framework and a design guideline for healthy communities in China. [Co-I. 2019-2021]
(5) Ningbo Urban Management Bureau, University Research Fund, Theoretical framework and a design guideline for healthy urban waterfront space of Ningbo. [Co-I. 2019-2021]
(6) Harvard University, Summer Grant of GSD, An Online and Offline Participatory Art for Community Unity, Communication and Memory in Response to COVID-19. [Co-I. 2020-2021]