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Neglect of a neighbourhood: oral accounts of life in ‘old Beijing’ since the...

Paper written by Harriet Evans (Contemporary China Centre, University of Westminster). Urban History.

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Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process.

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Urban Planning Goes Rural

Urban Planning Goes Rural: Conceptualising the “New Village". Paper written by David Bray (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy of the University of Sydney),...

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Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World

Book written by Doug Saunders (European Bureau Chief and foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail), and published by Knopf Canada (September 21, 2010).

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城市规划原理 (Principles of Urban Planning)

4th edition of the volume edited by a team of professors from the Tongji University, with Li Dehua (李德华) as chief editor. Published by Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe (中国建筑工业出版社) in 2010.

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Urban spatial restructuring, event-led development and scalar politics

This paper examines the use of the 2010 Summer Asian Games by Guangzhou in China as a means to justify its developmental vision that aimed at raising the city’s global profile and urban accumulation.

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Uxcester Garden City project

David Rudlin of URBED was the winner of the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014, announced in September 2014, with the Uxcester Garden City project.

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Peri-urban development and the Shanghai master plan 1999-2020

Full text of a thesis, defended on 9 February 2015 by He Jinghuan at Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands).

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Killing Time

This photo was taken in November 2013 in Nanchuan district, Chongqing. Farmers have been relocated and concentrated in a remote area with little or no public transportation (as of the date when the...

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