Dr.Fei Mohas long explored the evolution, planning, and conservation of blue–green infrastructure within high-density urban environments. She is currently anAssociate Professorand postgraduate studentsupervisor.
Beyond Shanghai, she has professional research and practice experience in landscape history, planning and conservation in
Paris (France), Irkutsk (Russia), London and Sheffield (UK), Washington D.C. and Seattle (USA), and the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador)
. Before joining SJTU, she worked as a course instructor and postgraduate tutor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, The University of Sheffield, and also served in international cooperation between the university and Chinese universities.
1. Educational Background
2004–2010Undergraduate and Master’s studies in the Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning,Tongji University
2010–2016 Sponsored by The University of Sheffield Studentship and China Scholarship Council to pursue a PhD in Landscape atThe University of Sheffield, UK
2. Visiting Professorship / International Fellowship
2013Awarded funding from Harvard University to be aDumbarton Oaks Summer Fellow in Landscape Studies
2024Funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council for the National Junior Leader Teacher Overseas Research Program to be aVisiting Scholar at the University of Washington (Seattle), USA
3. Research Areas
(1) Origins and Evolution of Modern Urban Greenspace Systems in China
This direction focuses on how international concepts of urban park systems, greenspace systems, residential planning, and garden design from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries were introduced into China and influenced the evolution of its urban landscapes. It also explores how indigenous Chinese greenspace planning theories and practices, in turn, contributed to the development of modern landscape architecture theory and practice. A key question is how the modernization of cities and the discipline shaped the greenspace systems of major treaty-port cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin, and Wuhan.
(2) Conservation and Management of Urban Greenspace from Integrating Ecological and Historical Perspectives
This direction investigates how to construct a dual-value framework that recognizes urban greenspace both asecological habitatsand ascultural landscapes, thereby supporting sustainable assessment, integrated conservation, and efficient utilization. It also examines biodiversity conservation strategies for greenspace in high-density urban environments, balancing human use with wildlife needs. Case studies include global cities such as London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, with a focus on policy evolution and greenspace planning concepts.
(3) Health-Supportive Environment Development Strategies from Urban Greenspace Planning and Design Perspective
This direction examines how health-supportive principles can be implemented in everyday urban environments used by large populations. It includes analysis of major policies and regulations from international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations, as well as national and municipal authorities, to explore how these ideas are incorporated into urban planning, design, and management.
4. Academic Service (as of December 2025)
(1) 2021–2025 APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Program Steering Committee Representative;
Leader of the Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group
(2) 2022-2025 Associate Member, ICOMOS–IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes
(3) 2024 – present Trustee, Landscape Research Group (UK)
(4) 2017 – present Member, Academic Committee on Theory and History /Cultural Landscape Committee of theChinese Society of Landscape Architecture
(5) 2019–2022 Contributing Editor,Landscape Architecture(《风景园林》)
(6) 2018 – present Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
2025 Third Prize, Young Faculty Teaching Competition, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2025 English Heritage International Conference Funding
2025 SJTU School of Design Young Scholar International Conference Funding
2024 SJTU Human and Social Science Publication Funding (First Class)
2024 SJTU Press Publication Funding (General Category)
2024Chinese Scholarship Council Funded Junior Leader Teacher for Overseas Research Cooperation
2021 Outstanding Paper Award (Third Class), Landscape Architecture Journal
2021 SJTU Candle Light Teaching Award (Second Class)
2020 SJTU School of Design Young Scholar International Conference Funding
2019 SJTU Honor Award of Young Scholar Teaching Competition
2019 SJTU Honorary Teaching Outcome Award (Group award)
2019 SJTU Outstanding Class Supervision Teacher
2019 Boxes Moving Playground Design Competition Supervision Award SJTU School of Design
2018 SJTU Teaching and Supervision Award (2nd Class, group award)
2013 Summer Fellowship of Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
- Chapter co-author,Supporting Galápagos Native Species via Ecological Landscape Design, Urban GreenspacesHuman Galapagos: Boundaries, Territories, and Places", SpringerNature (in press)
- Mo Fei. The Evolution of the Urban Landscape in Shanghai (1843-1949). SpringerNature-SJTU Press (in press).
- Mo Fei. Ecological vs Historical Strategies for Post-Industrial Urban Waterfront Landscape Regeneration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press (in press)
- Mo Fei. From Ideal to Place: A History of How Urban Greenspaces Promoted Public Health, 19th–21st Centuries, The Commercial Press, 2025
- Chapter co-author, Urban Biodiversity Conservation from Landscape Aspect, The Chinese Landscape Architecture Discipline Development Report, Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture Press press, 2023.
- Chapter co-author, The modern landscape history research development in China, Chinese Landscape Architecture Discipline History, The Science Publishing Press press. 2022.
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Mo Fei. Ecological VS Historical Conservation and Management of Urban Greespace. Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press press, 2021.
- Chapter co-author,Burley Jon, Rahman N.I.A, Mo Fei, Muller C, Stanley E, Manchemer Trisha, Chapter 11 Portugal and Spain, From Eye to Heart – Exterior Spaces Explored and Explained, Cognella Press, 2016, pp 236-263 (Awarded 2016 ASLA Professional Award in Communication in the Michigan Chapter).
Selected Publications:
(1) Studies on History and Evolution
Zheng Minqian, Mo Fei#. “Twenty-Five Years of Dedicated Garden-Making: The Establishment of the Green Space System in Shanghai’s International Settlement under the Supervision of Donald Macgregor.”Chinese Landscape Architecture, published online December 2024.
Chen Yunru, Mo Fei#. “Planning of the Modern Park System in Nanjing under the Influence of the City Beautiful Movement (1927–1937).” Paper presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture.
Mo, Fei#, Selman, Paul, Woudstra, Jan. “The origins of the modern park system of the International Settlement in Shanghai (1899–1929).”Landscape Research(SSCI), 2021, 46(3): 435–449.
(2) Studies on Conservation and Management
Li Ma*
, Jing Lu#, Fei Mo, Mingjun Xiao, Wencui Wang. Spearmint planting in combination with its leaf amendment spurred dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil. Submitted to International Journal of Phytoremediation.
Tang Yuwei, Mo Fei#. “A Study on Integrated Landscape Conservation Strategies for the Yuyuan Road Historic and Cultural District in Shanghai Based on Public Recreation Preference Analysis.” Paper presented at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture.
Mo Fei, Xu Yue, Fu Yanrong#, Che Shengquan. “Evolution of London’s Urban Biodiversity Strategy from the Perspective of Blue–Green Space Management (2002–2021).”Landscape Architecture, 2022, 29(4): 101–106.
Mo Fei. “A Brief Analysis of London Becoming the First National Park City in the UK.” InProceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, pp. 101–105. China Architecture & Building Press, 2021.
(3) Studies on Education and Teaching
Mo Fei#, Chen Yunru, Zheng Minqian, et al. “Using Garden History Education to Enhance Students’ International Design Thinking.”Garden, 2023, 40(05): 33–39.
Mo Fei.From explorer to pioneer: Martha Schwartz’s philosophy of design education, practice and research,Landscape Architecture, 2020, 27 (6): 54-62.
1.Course Teaching in SJTU
(1) Theory and Criticism Course:
Course Leader:Landscape Theory and Criticism (MLA International Master of Landscape Architecture Program)
(2) History and Conservation Courses:
Course Leader:Landscape History and Heritage Conservation / Landscape History/ Human Built Environment History
(3) Landscape Architecture Design Courses:
Course Leader: Landscape Architecture Design / Landscape Architecture and Habitat Garden
2.Teaching Research Projects
2025–2026 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund — Enhancing Students’ Global Competence through ESG-oriented Landscape History Teaching
2024–2025 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund — Improving Students’ Design Thinking through Landscape History Teaching
2024–2025 PI, SJTU Ideological and Political Education Fund — Landscape History Course Development Project
2021–2023 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund (Internationalization Special Program) — Case-Based Learning on Sustainable Historic Gardens to Enhance Students’ Global Competence from an Internationalization-at-Home (IaH) Perspective
2020 Participant, SJTU Education Research Project — Enhancing Students’ National Identity through Comparative Teaching of Chinese and Foreign Garden History under a Constructivist Learning Framework
2019 Participant, COP-ITL Project (HKU, HKBU, HKUST, CUHK, and SJTU): “Developing Teachers’ Professional Capacity and Enhancing Internationalization of Teaching and Learning.”
2019 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund (Internationalization Special Program) —Developing an International Design Perspective through Contextualized Heritage Conservation Case Studies in Garden History Education (CTLD19G0008)
2019 Participant, Landscape History Course approved as a Shanghai Municipal Exemplary Ideological and Political Curriculum
2018 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund (Internationalization Special Program) — Participatory Case-Based Learning in Western Landscape History for International Design Thinking (CTLD18D0004)
2017 PI, SJTU Teaching Development Fund — “Clicker Project: Landscape Art Studies and Garden History” (CTLD17D1004)
2017 Participant, SJTU Teaching Reform Project — Enhancing National Identity through Garden History Education (ZXDF602033/001/004)
1. Research and Publishing Grants
2025 Academic Conference Grant, English Heritage and SJTU School of Design
2024 PI, SJTU Humanities and Social Science Publishing Fund
2024 PI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press Publication Grant
2020 PI, SJTU Humanities and Social Science Publishing Fund
2019 PI, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Youth Project
2019 PI, SJTU Liberal Arts Innovation and Incubation Program Grant
2018 Participant, Ministry of Science and Technology of China Project
2018 PI, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Soft Science Research Project
2017 PI, SJTU New Faculty Research Start-up Program
2013 PI, Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship Grant, Harvard University
2012 Asia-Europe Foundation Academic Conference Grant
2010–2013 Doctoral Research Funding jointly supported by the China Scholarship Council and the University of Sheffield
2.Invited Presentations
2025 Minqian Zheng &Fei Mo, Transnational Influences on Urban Greenspace Development: The Role of Kew Gardeners in Shaping Modern Greenspace Systems in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, Gardens and Empire Conference (co-organised by English Heritage and the Royal Kew Gardens), The British Library, London, UK
2025 Xinyuan Yu & Fei Mo, Historic Waterfront Gardens in East Asia - British Influence, Local Transformation and Contemporary Value, APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference 2025, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada
2025 Chehua Shu & Fei Mo, Historic Bunds in Transition: Analyzing Tourist Perception and Heritage Gaps in Shanghai and Ningbo,APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference 2025, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada
2024 Fei Mo, London Urban Landscape Biodiversity Strategies from the Perspective of Greenspace Planning, Sun Yat-sen University Centennial Lecture Series on Ecology and Biological Evolutionn, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
2024 Fei Mo (Panelist), APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Panel in HOPES Conference, The University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
2022 Fei Mo (Panelist), South China Landscape · Lecture Preview | Augustan Landscapes: The Prelude to the English Landscape Garden, Online, China
2022 Fei Mo, London biodiversity strategies on green and blue spaces management (2002-2021). The 5th APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Research Hub Annual Conference Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group Session. Online, Hawaii, USA
2021Fei Mo, Internationalisation at Home in practice: experiments in landscape history teaching at SJTU. National Education Council Annual Conference, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
2020 Fei Mo, The Shanghai greenspace system planning: ecological vs historical considerations in developing the Chinese pioneer greenspace network (1949-2019), East and West Seminar, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2020 Fei Mo, London national park city development Strategy, Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture Annual Conference, Chengdu, China
2019 Fei Mo, The evolution of the greenspace system planning in Shanghai (1949-2019), Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture Annual Conference, Shanghai, China
2017 Fei Mo, Health-supportive community environment planning, CELA conference in Beijing, China.
2015 Fei Mo, The origins of modern parks in Shanghai (1843-1949), “New approaches in Chinese Garden History’, Sheffield, UK
2012 ‘Residential typologies, gardens and the modernization of Shanghai 1900-1950’, The International conference entitled: "Asia-Europe Encounters: Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950" in Singapore, sponsored by Asia- Europe Foundation.
3.International Conference / Webinar organization
APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Annual Conference, organizer, Shanghai, China, 2026. 5
Frontier in Green Infrastructure Planning - Landscape +X Research Lecture, organizer, 2025.10
APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Annual Conference - Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group Meeting, co-leader, Shanghai, China, 2025. 6
APRU Biodiversity & Sustainable Cities Webinar Series, moderator and organizer, Online, 2024. 4.
APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group Meeting, organiser, USFQ, the Galapagos, Ecuador，2023.8
Resilient urban landscape, APRU Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group Webinar, 2022.4.
Urban landscape biodiversity, APRU Urban Landscape Biodiversity Working Group Webinar, organizer, 2022.1.
Landscape Master Talks Series, organizer, School of Design, Shanghai Society of Landscape Architects,2019-2025.
Design Education Symposium, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2019.11.
The regeneration of riverside urban landscape, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2019.5.
‘Paxton 150’ – The past and future of urban parks. Sponsored by the English Heritage, 2015.9.
‘New approaches in Chinese Garden History’, Sheffield, UK, 2015.6.
