Urban China Series
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
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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 […]
Urban China Series Featuring Rosealea Yao – China’s Housing and Construction Industry – 2023 Review and Outlook
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Rosealea Yao , Senior Analyst, Gavekal Dragonomics China’s property-market slump worsened in 2023. The burst of pent-up demand that followed the reopening from Covid containment evaporated by April, and sales […]
Urban China Series Featuring Fang Xu – Care to be a Shanghainese? Endangerment of the Vernacular and Flexible Resident Identity
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Fang Xu , Continuing Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of California Berkeley The transformation of Shanghai into a global city has driven millions of Shanghainese away from the urban […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University. Rodenbiker's new book Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo – Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Shaun SK Teo, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Is Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Qinghua, Peking University This talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Margaret Hillenbrand – On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in a two-story […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam – Planning Exchange: Ideas, People, and Cities in Circulation During China’s Opening and Reform Era
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Cole Roskam, Professor of Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Beginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China initiated international […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng – Families, Schools, and Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhu Fangsheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University This talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson – Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Isabella Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Trinity College Dublin The Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism, […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Guanchi – Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Guanchi, Vermont Law and Graduate School How has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization, Chinese cities […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu
Presented via ZoomSpeakers: Huang Binling & Yuan Zhenyu, Shenzhen Sketch Landscape Design More information coming soon. This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of […]