The Remaking of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods
This project brings together researchers from the University of Glasgow and Nankai University to examine changing neighbourhoods in three Chinese cities.
Concurrent processes of urbanisation, marketisation, industrialisation and service sector development have fundamentally transformed China's cities. This interdisciplinary project focuses on the interplay of spatial and socio-economic transformations and their consequences for people's experiences of urban neighbourhoods and access to public services. It examines how urbanisation together with in-migration and social re-stratification, are remaking urban neighbourhoods and Chinese urban dwellers' day-to-day lives.
The project brings together 16 UK and Chinese specialists in urban development, planning, housing, public policy and China studies. This enables the team to draw on UK and European research on urbanisation, planning, neighbourhoods and deprivation, and public service provision to theoretically and conceptually inform understandings of the processes underway in China and policy recommendations.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- Sichuan University, China (Collaboration)
- University of Electronic Science and Tec (Collaboration)
- Nankai University (Collaboration)
People
- Ya Ping Wang (Principal Investigator)
- Rebecca Madgin (Co-Investigator)
- Jing Yao (Co-Investigator)
- Keith Kintrea (Co-Investigator)
- Jane Duckett (Co-Investigator)
- Tian Miao, University of Melbourne (Co-Investigator)
Selected Publications
- Sun, X., Sun, T., Jin, Y. & Wang, YP. (2019) ‘Spatial Organization of Hierarchical Medical Services within the City Proper of Tianjin, China: Towards Efficient Medical Alliances’, Sustainability 11(1), 229.
- Sun, X., Yang, W., Sun, T. & Wang, YP. (2019) ‘Negative Emotion under Haze: An Investigation Based on the Microblog and Weather Records of Tianjin, China’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(1), 86.
- Yao, J., Wong, DWS., Bailey, N. & Minton, J. (2019) ‘Spatial Segregation Measures: A Methodological Review’, Journal of Economic and Social Geography 110(3), pp.235-250.
- Guo, Y., Zhang, C., Wang, YP. & Li, X. (2018) ‘(De-)Activating the growth machine for redevelopment: The case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou’, Urban Studies 55(7), pp.1420–1438.
- Sun, X., Wang, W., Sun, T. & Wang, YP. (2018) ‘Understanding the Living Conditions of Chinese Urban Neighborhoods through Social Infrastructure Configurations: The Case Study of Tianjin’, Sustainability 10(9), 3243.
- Wang, Y. & Shaw, D. (2018) ‘The complexity of high-density neighbourhood development in China: Intensification, deregulation and social sustainability challenges’, Sustainable Cities and Society 43, pp.578-586.
- Wang, Y., Shaw, D. & Yuan, K. (2018) ‘Gated Neighborhoods, Privatized Amenities and Fragmented Society: Evidence from Residential Experience and Implications for Urban Planning’, Sustainability 10(11), 4301.