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China Planning Research: Urbanization and Governance After Suburbia
27 January 2023, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Yi Feng
Location
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LG.01Central House14 Upper Woburn PlaceLondonWC1H0NNUnited Kingdom
This event is a reflection on the edited volume and further advances the debate over urbanization and governance, rethinking how distinct form of governance emerges from political, economic and social contexts.
This is a hybrid event. Please do join us in Central House if you are able to. You can also join us via Zoom.
| 3.15-3.30pm | Editor | Roger Keil |
| 3.30-4.00pm | Invited Speakers | Nicholas Phelps, Christian Schmid |
| 4.00-4.30pm | Contributors | Jennifer Robinson, Robin Bloch, Fulong Wu |
| 4.30pm-4.50pm | Discussion | All speakers |
About the Speakers
Prof. Roger Keil
at York University
Roger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, infrastructure, and regional governance. Among his publications are Suburban Planet (Polity), Pandemic Urbanism (Polity, with S.Harris Ali and Creighton Connolly) and After Suburbia (UTP with Fulong Wu).
Prof. Nicholas Phelps
at University of Melbourne
Nicholas A. Phelps is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He previously was Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Bartlett School of Planning and Pro-Vice Provost Regional at UCL. He is author of The Urban Planning Imagination (Polity), Interplaces (OUP), Sequel to Suburbia (MIT), Post-Suburban Europe (Palgrave-MacMillan), editor of Old Europe, New Suburbanization (UoT), co-editor of International Perspectives on Suburbanization (Palgrave-MacMillan) and author of numerous journal articles on the subjects of suburbanization and growth planning.
Prof. Jennifer Robinson
at UCL
Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Human Geography at University College London and co-Director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory. Previously she has worked at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the LSE and the Open University. Her book, Ordinary Cities (Routledge, 2006) developed a post-colonial critique of urban studies. Her new book, Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022), proposes new methodological foundations for urban studies. Earlier empirical research explored the history of apartheid cities, and the politics of post-apartheid city-visioning. Current empirical projects focus on the politics of large-scale urban developments (London, Johannesburg, Shanghai) and the transnational circuits shaping African urbanisation (Accra, Dar es Salaam, Lilongwe).
Dr. Robin Bloch
at COWI
Robin Bloch is a technical and market manager of sustainable urban development at COWI, an international engineering company. He is a city planner and has led several urban infrastructure planning and resilience projects in recent years, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of this work has incorporated research management, notably his role as team leader on the UK government-funded Urbanisation Research Nigeria program from 2013-18. His research includes industries, peripheries and politics.
Prof. Fulong Wu
at UCL
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. He co-edited After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century with Roger Keil. His latest book is Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes (UCL Press, free downloadable from the publisher)