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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zhi — What Drives Urban Regeneration Action in China Today?
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Liu Zhi\, Peking University-Lincoln InstituteOver the last few years\, the Chinese government has actively promoted urban regeneration action across the country. However\, many projects are not justified by demand and struggle to attract investment. Others lack rigorous feasibility studies and economic assessments\, posing significant risk of inefficient or wasteful investment. Behind this phenomenon is what I call “investment impulse\,” a bureaucratic incentive that uses public investment not to meet demand in a cost-effective way\, but to increase the size of local GDP. What drives the investment impulse? Placing the urban regeneration action into a broad context of China’s public capital investment behavior\, I argue that the investment impulse is an unintended consequence of China’s political and economic management system and can be avoided with policy reform measures. \n\n\n\nZhi Liu is Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of China and Asia Program\, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, and Director\, Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. His research interests are mainly in land and housing policy\, infrastructure economics and policy\, municipal finance\, and urban and regional planning. Before joining Lincoln Institute in 2013\, he was a lead infrastructure specialist at the World Bank\, with years of operational experience in the infrastructure and urban sectors. He is co-editor of International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China (Routledge 2019) and Infrastructure Economic and Policy: International Perspectives (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, 2022). \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Philipp Demgenski — The Burden of the Past: Housing Expropriation and the Changing Priorities of Inner-City Redevelopment in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:   Philipp Demgenski\, Institute of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology\, Zhejiang UniversityUnder current Chinese leadership\, inner-city redevelopment has shifted from a “demolish and rebuild” (da chai da jian) model to prioritizing heritage preservation (baohu) and “subtle redevelopment” (wei gaizao)\, with policies prohibiting violent evictions\, requiring public interest justification\, and promoting transparency in housing expropriation. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork\, in this presentation\, I explore how these changes have played out at the micro level of urban society in the concrete negotiations over housing expropriation and compensation in the old\, former colonial town centre of Qingdao. I show that while these policies aim to enhance the “quality” of redevelopment and bolster government legitimacy\, they often fall short. Launching a housing expropriation and renewal scheme has\, I argue\, been much like opening a Pandora’s box in unleashing unresolved legacies and burdens of the past. Redevelopment announcements created expectations and triggered actions relative to compensation that the local government was unable to effectively address. This hints at the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its redevelopment practices. \n\n\n\nPhilipp Demgenski is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research has been focusing on urban redevelopment and heritage politics in China as well as global heritage governance. His book “Seeking a Future for the Past: Space\, power\, and heritage in a Chinese city” was published in 2024 with Michigan University Press. He was previously a member of the “UNESCO Frictions” project at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, researching the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention in China\, Brazil and Greece. \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
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