Tianya Yang Resume 4114 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 +1 215 526 1334 tianya@design.upenn.edu EXPERTISE AND INTEREST Urban Planning and Design Landscape Architecture Property Development 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 SKILLS Design and Drawing Text, Data and Language 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 EDUCATION 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 RESEARCH AND STUDY EXPERIENCE Rapid Urbanization Case Study 01.2013-02.2013 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 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 INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE Conservation Department, Southeast University Institute of Architecture Design 06.2012-09.2012, Nanjing, China Zh u b o A r c h i te c t u r e a nd 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 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 11