Speaker: Bruce Pang, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Greater China For the past three decades, the real estate sector has been a cornerstone of China’s economic growth, social development, and urbanization. Commercial

Speaker:  Koji Hirata, Monash University This presentation examines the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province as a case study to explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments

Speaker:  Amy Zhang, New York University After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see

Speaker:  Zhao Yawei, University of ManchesterThis presentation explores the intersection of migration studies and urban studies, focusing on the case of Dali, a small city that has experienced urban transformations

Speaker:   Samantha Vortherms, University of California, Irvine In Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship, Samantha Vortherms examines the institutions constructing authoritarian citizenship in the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and

Speaker: Qiao Shitong, Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar, Duke University Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, this book

Speaker: Cecilia Chu, Associate Professor in Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong This talk will explore three central aspects of urban development in colonial Hong Kong: the advent of

Speaker:  Mark Baker, University of Manchester This event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the

Speaker: Claudia Huang, California State University, Long Beach The current generational cohort of Chinese retirees have gotten a tough bargain in many ways. Because the one-child policy created an upside-down

Speaker: Zhongjie Lin, Benjamin Z. Lin Presidential Professor of Urban Design, Weitzman School of Design, University of PennsylvaniaAmid groundbreaking political reforms and the largest mass migration in human history, China