Urban China Series
Events
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Cecilia Chu — Building Colonial Hong Kong: The Production of Space in a Speculative City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Mark Baker — Pivot of China: Spatial Politicsand Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Claudia Huang — Play a day, count a day: planning for old age in contemporary urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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Zhongjie Lin— New Town Utopias: Lessons from China’s 21st-Century Urban Experiments
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Song Nianshen — Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Song Nianshen, Tsinghua UniversityWhat can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in
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Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Su Xiaobo — State Venturism and the Financialization of Urban Development in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Su Xiaobo, University of Oregon Financialization has become a central force to reshape urban development. This paper explores one specific mechanism of financialization—state-led venture capital (SVC)—to elucidate an emergent
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Urban China Lecture featuring Chris Courtney — Defrosting the Deep History of Chinese Cold Chains
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chris Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Durham, UK.Cold chains are a vital component of modern cities. Most histories trace their origins to the advent of
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi —Mismatched Industrial Land Lease Terms: Urban Land Vacancy Induced by Business Turnover
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhao Miaoxi, South China University of TechnologyIn China's system of public land ownership, industrial land leases often extend beyond the relatively short lifespan of enterprises. Consequently, formulating land use strategies