Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an architect, urban designer, and scholar of urbanism. He is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as director of Urban Design program. He is also founding director of Futurepolis, an awarding-winning practice of international architecture and planning. Dr. Lin is author or coauthor of several books, including Urban Design in the Global Perspective (2006), Kenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement (2010/2023), The Making of a Chinese Model New Town (2012), Vertical Urbanism (2018), and Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (2019). He holds a PhD in architectural history and criticism from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Arch. from Tongji University.