Speaker: Li Zhigang, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China ***This talk will be in Mandarin*** China faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance, particularly in old and dilapidated neighborhoods (老旧社区). In this context, some new and experimental approaches to neighborhood governance have emerged. This talk focuses on three representative …

Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance

Speaker: Andrew Grant, University of Tampa Examining Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, this talk argues that urban redevelopment and greenfield expansion have devalued the older urban areas in which Tibetans live.  Through over twenty months of fieldwork between 2012 and 2017, I found that un-redeveloped urban places were becoming increasingly associated with crime, grime, and …

Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center

Speaker: Leonardo Ramondetti, Post-doctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Torino Since the early 2000s, China has seen unprecedented urban growth, spreading to every corner of the country. Driven by the urban entrepreneurialism of major municipalities until the mid-2000s, the reins have since passed to the central and regional administrations which plan development in a more comprehensive and …

Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China

Speaker: Yang Yuzhen, Professor of Architecture and Urban Development, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University ***This talk will be in Mandarin.*** Modern public spaces in Chinese cities have undergone significant changes over the past century. The transformation of Chongqing, an inland city, is an essential part of China's modernization process from east to …

Urban China Series Featuring Yang Yuzhen — The Production of Public Space and Collective Memory: A Chinese Inland City Across Time 杨宇振:公共空间与集体记忆的生产——一个中国内陆城市的历时样本