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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Li Zhigang\, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning\, School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China \n\n\n\n***This talk will be in Mandarin*** \n\n\n\nChina 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 cases: Jinsong in Beijing\, and Huajin and Xima in Wuhan. I argue that the governance restructuring in these communities has been experimental and has been driven primarily by grassroots governments. Their objectives include addressing the service and resource deficiencies faced by residents and bolstering the influence of the CCP at the grassroots level. By using a variety of approaches to integrate both market and social forces\, the state has articulated the new concept of a ‘complete community’. In essence\, these experiments epitomize ‘state entrepreneurism’\, which on one hand stresses the capitalization of space and on the other\, advocates for the socialization of capital. \n\n\n\nLi Zhigang is a professor of urban studies and planning at the School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China. He also serves as the dean of this school. Before 2015\, Prof Li worked at the School of Geography and Planning\, Sun Yat-sen University\, Guangzhou\, China. As an urban scholar\, geographer\, and planner\, Professor Li works on the socio-spatial transformation of urban China\, with a focus on such topics as neighbourhoods\, migration\, health\, and related planning issues. His recent work concentrates on the effects of China’s neighbourhood transformation and related planning as well as governance issues. Professor Li is serving as the editor of some top journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Urban Studies\, etc.. He has been the principal investigator of five research projects funded by China’s NFC\, including one Excellent Youth Foundation. Prof Li has been awarded China’s ‘National Award for Young Geographers’ and ‘National Award for Young Planners’. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-li-zhigang-chinas-new-experiments-of-urban-neighborhood-governance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Andrew Grant\, University of Tampa \n\n\n\nExamining 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 minoritized ethnic populations. These associations were driven by a complex combination of personal desires for modern urban amenities\, pre-existing social tensions\, and state-driven programs that drove and exacerbated new forms of social evaluation. \n\n\n\nAndrew Grant is an Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Tampa. His research contributes to discussions about the role of urbanization\, borders\, and other materials in global geopolitics and the politics of marginalized groups. His studies have included the urban geopolitics of rural-to-urban migration amid state-led urbanization drives on the Tibetan Plateau\, complications between soft power and security at China’s Inner Asian borders\, and the geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative cartography. His research is grounded in qualitative methods including ethnography\, interviews\, and textual analysis. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-andrew-grant-abject-space-in-redevelopment-urban-tibetans-in-xinings-old-city-center/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leonardo Ramondetti\, Post-doctoral Researcher\, Politecnico di Torino  \n\n\n\nSince 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 coordinated fashion. This turning point in urban policies has redirected planning activities: from the centripetal development of major cities through new towns to centrifugal urbanization fostering regional integration via wide-area projects and small-scale interventions. Drawing upon the urbanization in Central Plains\, Henan Province\, this talk discusses the socio-spatial implications of such urban policies and planning activities. It examines the emerging infrastructure\, housing\, and production spaces to provide an interpretation of this urbanization as an enriched field: a space characterized by great performativity in infrastructure\, environment\, and welfare\, as well as imbued with narratives\, stories\, and meanings. \n\n\n\nLeonardo Ramondetti\, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development\, is a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Torino\, and an Adjunct Professor at Università di Bologna. His field of research is contemporary urban design and planning\, with attention to infrastructure-led development. He was part of the research ‘Chinese New Towns: Negotiating Citizenship and Physical Form’ (2016-2019)\, spending a five-month visiting period at Tsinghua University to study the urbanization processes underway in central China. He is currently working on the research ‘Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: Urbanisation processes\, innovation patterns and global investments’ (2020-2023)\, including a five-month visiting period at Laboratoire Techniques\, Territoires et Sociétés to further develop the knowledge in infrastructural projects. He is the coordinator of the China Room research group at Politecnico di Torino\, and the author of The Enriched Field: Urbanising the Central Plains of China (Birkhäuser\, 2022). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leonardo-ramondetti-the-enriched-field-urbanizing-the-central-plains-of-china/
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Yuzhen\, Professor of Architecture and Urban Development\, School of Architecture and Urban Planning\, Chongqing University  \n\n\n\n***This talk will be in Mandarin.*** \n\n\n\nModern 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 west. The evolution of the Chaotianmen (朝天门) area in Chongqing provides a representative case for understanding and recognizing the public spaces in modern Chinese cities. This talk first explores the historical changes\, forms\, and symbolic transformations of the Chaotianmen area in Chongqing since the 20th century. It analyzes the differences in the spatial reconstruction of Chaotianmen across different historical periods. It further explores the similar conditions of several other cities in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. While discussing the material\, social\, and conceptual dimensions of contemporary public space production\, the author argues that the constant appropriation and rewriting of public space in the historical process is a universal state of collective memory\, and how to deal with this problem has become a key issue in the process of contemporary urban development. \n\n\n\nYang Yuzhen is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Development at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Chongqing University\, China. His research focuses on the political and economic transformation of Chinese cities from the early 20th century. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China\, and a council member of the Architect’s Branch of Architectural Society of China. He was a visiting scholar at GSD\, Harvard University; a researcher of Residency Program at Bellagio Center\, Italy. His representative works include:One Kilometre City: Everyday Life\, Crisis and the Production of Space (2022)\,History and Space: Chongqing in the late Qing Dynasty and Its Transformation (2018)\,and Spatialization of Capital (2016). \n\n\n\n现代中国城市公共空间在过去一个世纪经历巨大变化。内陆城市重庆的转变是中国由东而西现代化进程的重要构成。重庆朝天门地段的演变提供了一个理解和认识现代中国城市公共空间的典型案例。首先探讨近代以来重庆朝天门地段的历史变迁、形态和象征变化，分析各个特定历史时期朝天门的问题差异与空间再造状况，并进一步探析长江上游多个城市的“类朝天门”公共空间状况；最后讨论当代公共空间生产的物质、社会和观念维度，作者认为历史过程中城市公共空间不断地被挪用和再书写是集体记忆的普遍状态，如何应对这一问题成为当代城市发展过程中的关键性议题。 \n\n\n\n杨宇振，重庆大学建筑城规学院教授。主要研究领域在近代以来中国城市空间的政治与经济转变。兼任中国城市规划学会学术工作委员会委员、中国建筑学会建筑师分会理事等。曾是哈佛大学设计研究生院访问学者（2008）、意大利Bellagio中心访住项目研究员（2016）。他的著作包括：《一公里城市：日常生活、危机与空间生产》（2022）；《历史与空间：晚期重庆城及其转变》（2018）；《资本空间化：资本积累、城市化与空间生产》（2016）等。 \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yang-yuzhen-the-production-of-public-space-and-collective-memory-a-chinese-inland-city-across-time-%e6%9d%a8%e5%ae%87%e6%8c%af%e5%85%ac%e5%85%b1%e7%a9%ba/
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