About Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao

Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao is currently a professor and department head of the Department of Urban Planning and a research fellow of the Healthy City Research Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Her research mainly focuses on demographic changes/ageing society, climate change, and planning law system. She was the first project leader of the national Age-Friendly Cities Program in Taiwan and a visiting scholar at the University of West of England WHO Collaborating Centre in 2012 as well as at the Waseda University Medical-based Town Planning Lab. She has also been the project leader of the “Climate Change Education Alliance-Southern Branch” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan since 2019. Her long-term contribution in working on the National Spatial Planning Act with the Ministry of Interior for drafting the new national spatial land use regulation and several relative codes since 2016 has been widely recognized. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters (Time, Space, Places (2007); The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-being (2015); Springer Handbook of Well-being Research (2017)) on the well-being cities and communities on the ageing urban issues. Her latest full book titled Planning for Greying Cities (2019) was published as the first ageing society book from planning and design perspectives. She holds a Doctorate of Urban Planning from the University of Nottingham (UK) and a Master of City and Regional Planning from University of Pennsylvania (USA).