The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development

Following a series of International Conferences on China’s Urban Development in Hong Kong, Cardiff, Shanghai, London, Glasgow, and Manchester, the conference will return to London in 2025 to place Chinese cities in a changing world and engage with a wider urban studies community. It provides a forum for dialogue on China’s broad political, economic, social, and environmental challenges and governance. It also welcomes papers focusing on urban development and governance in other regions. See more information here at https://urban-china.org/2025conference/

Keynote I: Professor Anthony G.O. Yeh, The University of Hong Kong 

Keynote II: Professor Jamie Peck, The University of British Columbia 

Panellists for Transactions of Planning and Urban Research (TPUR),Plenary Forum I: Changing Urban Studies and the Future of Urban China Research 

Professor Michael Batty, University College London 

Professor Cecilia Wong, The University of Manchester 

Professor David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Dr Max Woodworth, The Ohio State University 

Panellists for TPUR Plenary  Forum II: Critical Debates in China’s Urban Governance

Professor Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong 

Professor Zhigang Li, Wuhan University 

Professor Hyun Bang Shin, London School of Economics and Political Science 

Professor Jiang Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Registration fees (standard and student rates): £380 Conference registration fees include lunches and refreshments but exclude accommodation and the gala dinner (optional, £50). Registration deadline: 15 June 2025 Please see more information at ‘https://urban-china.org/2025conference/