The Shanghai alleyway house: A vanishing urban vernacular
A book by Gregory Bracken, research fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, which examines a type of dwelling, hybrid of Chinese and Western traditions, unique to Shanghai.
View ArticleCities in Asia: International summer program in architecture
Studio SHA-HKG-SIN is a three to four-week design and research studio organized by the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, in the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The program...
View ArticleShanghaing Mumbai: Theorizing the Asian cities
A conference by Mrs Pushpa Arabindoo, co-director of the Department of Geography, UCL Urban Laboratory (London), will take place in Paris on thursday 18 April 2013.
View ArticleConference on China, inequality, growth and the middle-income trap
A conference on inequality, growth and the middle-income trap in China will be held in Beijing on 1-2 July 2013 by the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, jointly organized by the...
View ArticleChina planning research symposium
A one-day Research Symposium, organized by China Planning Research Group, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
View ArticleCall for applications: CEFC short-term mobility grant
The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) is offering three fieldwork grants for doctoral students, ranging from one to three months, to be carried out between June 2013 and December...
View ArticleUndo the discriminatory hukou system to achieve ‘cities of dream’?
Twenty years after the publication of his book, Cities with invisible walls, Kam Wing Chan still advocates for a less rigid hukou system, in order to allow rural migrants to become full urban citizens.
View ArticleStreet vendors: poor and indesirable in the city
Article by Dorothy J. Solinger (University of California, Irvine), published in the latest issue of Critical Asian Studies.
View ArticleLSE-PKU Summer School 2013
A new ‘Urban Studies’ course will be part of the tenth LSE-Peking University Summer School, to be held in Beijing from 12-23 August 2013.
View ArticleUrbanization in China (China Analysis)
A dossier about urbanization in China, included in the latest issue of China Analysis, the China current affairs journal of Asia Centre, an independant research institute based in Paris.
View ArticleUrban vegetable retail in China: the example of Shanghai
Article by Qian Forrest Zhang (Singapore Management University) and Zi Pan (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics).
View ArticleDrought in Yunnan: ecological and water quality factors
A post in Chinadialogue examines the root causes of south-west China's drought.
View ArticleInternational conference on sustainable water resources management
An international conference, to be held in Stockholm on 15-16 July 2013, about all aspects of sustainable water resources management.
View ArticleIs China about to introduce a national carbon price?
China, which emits one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gases, is about to implement a massive experiment in emissions trading.
View ArticleChina Water Risk = 中国水危机
Presentation of China Water Risk web portal, which gives relevant information on water issues.
View ArticleKeys to the city
A specialist of economic geography, Michael Storper (LSE, London) explains in his latest book "why do some cities grow economically while others decline, why do some show sustained economic performance...
View ArticleChina’s urban labor market: a structural econometric approach
A book by Liu Yang, a researcher at the Asia Pacific Institute of Research (Osaka, Japan).
View ArticleA comparative study with Swedish and China’s eco-cities
This article aims "to improve understanding and explain influential factors of different planning and implementing process of two eco-cities", one in Sweden, the other in Wuxi, China.
View ArticleBringing cycling culture back to China and Taiwan
How do cities in China and Taiwan manage to promote cycling culture among their citizens.
View ArticleThe Promenade plantée in postindustrial Paris
The ‘Promenade plantée’ (tree-lined walkway) is a green space built on top of an old railway line, once known as Vincennes line, which operated until 1969. The author considers it "in the context of...
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