All Outputs (6)

Urban placemaking and human wellbeing in post-pandemic planning: Implications from case study of Wapping Wharf, Bristol (2024)
Journal Article

The way in which the living environment is designed has profound influences on inhabitants’ well-being; unfortunately, the search for leverage points for the socio-spatial assemblages of human wellbeing and the (re)configuration of their living envir... Read More about Urban placemaking and human wellbeing in post-pandemic planning: Implications from case study of Wapping Wharf, Bristol.

The pillars of power and policy of social policymaking in authoritarian regimes (2024)
Journal Article

This article addresses the puzzle of the politics of social policy formation by two post-communist authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. It argues that two interrelated dimensions-which we term the pillars of power and policy-shape social policy... Read More about The pillars of power and policy of social policymaking in authoritarian regimes.

Bridging theory and practice: Participatory planning in China (2017)
Journal Article

Abstract: The paper aims at a greater understanding of how citizen participation, a concept traditionally linked with democracy, could be articulated in the regional planning process in the Chinese one-party state regime with the top-down governance... Read More about Bridging theory and practice: Participatory planning in China.

New urban paradigm beyond the west: Investigating the regeneration of urban villages in Guangzhou, China (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper investigates the regeneration process of four urban villages in Guangzhou, China. It finds that the institutional dichotomy of the rural and urban systems in land ownership an... Read More about New urban paradigm beyond the west: Investigating the regeneration of urban villages in Guangzhou, China.

The development of mortgage finance in China: Implications from international experiences (2015)
Journal Article

This paper compares the current Chinese mortgage market with the markets in several advanced economies that suffered most in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, exploring the potential and rigidities of development of the secondary mortgage market in C... Read More about The development of mortgage finance in China: Implications from international experiences.

Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China (2014)
Journal Article

Along with the green-land shortage and the low use efficiency of urban land as a result of rapid urban sprawl in the past three decades, the issue of urban regeneration has been recently brought to the governance agenda by the new leadership in China... Read More about Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China.