He is the founder and chair of the International Cartographic Association Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, and has established an ICA workshop series on the research topic.
Jiang joined the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London as a senior research fellow in 1997, where he worked with Michael Batty for integrating space syntax into GIS.
He developed Axwoman [1] a plugin to ArcView GIS for urban morphological analysis (latest version 6.0 is based on ArcGIS).
However, there are far more small things than large ones globally or across different scales ranging from the smallest to the largest, so called spatial heterogeneity.
The British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) first conceived the organismic worldview under which human beings and the material world are unified rather than separated from each other.
More importantly, the living structure can be well reflected in human mind and heart, triggering a sense of livingness or beauty.