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Dr Matthew Kok Ming Ng

Matt Ng
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Matthew is a postdoctoral research fellow at the City Futures Research Centre. His interests lie in understanding the dynamics of urban structures based on their underlying transport, population, and economic networks; their linkages in ongoing processes of decay, renewal, and gentrification; and, the role of urban big data and analytics in substantiating development policies to facilitate or intervene in these processes. He holds a PhD from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, an MSc in International Planning from the Bartlett School of Planning, and a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Manchester.

He is open to research students that have interests aligned to his own. 

Publications

Book Chapters

Ng M; Soundararaj B; Pettit C, 2022, 'Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context', in Mori H; Yoshida T; Anttiroiko A-V (ed.), City, Public Value, and Capitalism New Urban Visions and Public Strategies, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 221 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.21985/n2-w74g-x218

Roper J; Pettit C; Ng M, 2021, 'Understanding the Economic Value of Walkable Cities', in Urban Informatics and Future Cities, pp. 277 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76059-5_15

Journal articles

Thackway W; Ng M; Lee CL; Pettit C, 2023, 'Implementing a deep-learning model using Google street view to combine social and physical indicators of gentrification', Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 102, pp. 101970 - 101970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101970

Thackway W; Ng M; Lee CL; Pettit C, 2023, 'Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney', Cities, 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104192

Ng MKM; Shabrina Z; Buyuklieva B, 2022, 'Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District', Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 15, pp. 919 - 946, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09429-9

Ng MKM; Roper J; Lee CL; Pettit C, 2022, 'The Reflection of Income Segregation and Accessibility Cleavages in Sydney’s House Prices', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11070413

Pettit CJ; Leao SZ; Lock O; Ng M; Reades J, 2022, 'Big Data: The Engine to Future Cities—A Reflective Case Study in Urban Transport', Sustainability (Switzerland), 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031727

Thackway WT; Ng MKM; Lee CL; Shi V; Pettit CJ, 2022, 'Spatial Variability of the ‘Airbnb Effect’: A Spatially Explicit Analysis of Airbnb’s Impact on Housing Prices in Sydney', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11, pp. 65 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11010065

Shabrina Z; Buyuklieva B; Ng MKM, 2021, 'Short-Term Rental Platform in the Urban Tourism Context: A Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and a Multiscale GWR (MGWR) Approaches', Geographical Analysis, 53, pp. 686 - 707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gean.12259

Conference Papers

Roper J; Hudson P; Petersen H; Pettit C; Russell T; Ng MKM, 2022, 'Colouring Australia: a participatory open data platform', ISPRS International Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Sydney, presented at 7th Smart Data Cities & 17th 3D GeoInfo, Sydney, 19 October 2022

Roper J; Ng M; Pettit C, 2022, 'Walking accessibility: a new method and comparison of two capital cities', Universities’ Transport Study Group, Edinburgh, presented at 54th Annual Universities’ Transport Study Group, Edinburgh, 04 July 2022

Reports

Pawson H; Clarke A; Moore J; van den Nouwelant R; Ng M, 2023, A blueprint to tackle Queensland's housing crisis, Queensland Council of Social Services, Brisbane, https://www.qcoss.org.au/publication/report-a-blueprint-to-tackle-queenslands-housing-crisis/

Ng M; Crommelin L; Pettit C, 2022, Housing Delivery Targets and Benchmarks in New South Wales

Ng M; Salhab M, 2021, Data Driven Vulnerability Outlook on Beirut’s Neighborhoods, https://www.undp.org/lebanon/data-driven-vulnerability-outlook-beirut%E2%80%99s-neighborhoods-0

Patents

Pettit C; Randolph B; Han H; Lee CL; Shi Y; Ng M; Soundararaj B; Lu Y; Gao Q; Jayasekare A, 2022, Digital models and tools for valuation of land and property, Patent No.

Preprints

Thackway W; Ng MKM; Lee CL; Pettit C, 2021, Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/hkc96

Thackway W; Ng MKM; Lee CL; Shi V; Pettit C, 2021, Spatial Variability of the ‘Airbnb Effect’: A Spatially Explicit Analysis of Airbnb's impact on Housing Prices in Sydney, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/cw2a9

Ng MKM; Pettit C, 2021, Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/5k4sz

Ng MKM; Roper J; Pettit C; Lee CL, 2021, The Reflection of Income Segregation and Accessibility Cleavages in Sydney’s House Prices, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2psk5