The China Planning Research Group regularly holds seminars for comparative studies between urban China and other parts of the world for those interested in China's continuing momentum of urbanisation.
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Upcoming Seminars
Future CPRG events will be listed here as information becomes available.
Past Seminars
- 2022-23
17th March 2023
Speaker: Prof Chun Yang at Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
China’s Greater Bay Area under digital transformation3rd March 2023
Speaker: Jun Zhang, Associate Professor of Economic Geography at Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto
The Party-Statecraft of China’s Regional Governance and the Emerging Greater Bay Area10th February 2023
Speaker: Dr. Yuqi Liu at South China University of Technology
China Planning Research Group Seminar: Age-friendly neighbourhoods in China3rd February 2023
Speaker: Dr. Thierry Theurillat, Assistant Professor at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
China’s extended urbanisation driven by the consumption city27th January 2023
Speaker: Roger Keil, Nicholas Phelps and Jennifer Robinson
Urbanization and Governance After Suburbia8th December 2022
Speaker: Professor Beibei Tang at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
The Making of “New Citizens”: Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China2nd December 2022
Speaker: Professor Zhigang Li, Dean, Professor of urban studies and planning at School of Urban Design, Wuhan University
People-Centered Micro-Redevelopment in Urban China2nd November 2022
Speaker: Dr Yi Li, Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, National Research Centre for Resettlement, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism- 2021-22
9th March 2022
Speaker: Dr. Giulia C. Romano
Title: Learning from abroad and changing urban renewal policies in China
Event information19th February 2022
Speaker: Dr. I-Chun Catherine Chang
Title: From Eco to Smart: The Local Variegation and Spatial Circulation of Sustainable Urbanism Models
Event information19 January 2022
Speaker: Prof. Yvonne Rydin
Title: Mobilities of Planning Theory and Research
Event information8th December 2021
Speakers Dr. Rong Cai, Dr. Ying Wang, Dr. Tingting Lu and Dr. Tingting Lu
Title: Governing Chinese Neighbourhoods: Models and Beyond
Event information14 October 2021
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu, Prof. Lin Ye, Dr. Yang Yu, Dr. Bin Li and Manqi Wang
Title: Urban Regeneration in China: What Model Now?
Event information- 2020-21
3 March 2021
Speaker: Dr. Paul Waley
Title: Who Builds Cities in China?
Event information24 February 2021
Speaker: Prof. Xiaoling Zhang
Title: Remaking Inclusive Sustainability: spatial-temporal dimension
Event information16 February 2021
Speaker: Calvin King Lam Chung
Title: China#s greenway development
Event information20 January 2021
Speaker: Prof. Youqin Huang
Title: Moving towards an inclusive housing policy?
Event information10 December 2020
Speaker: Dr. Yang Xiao
Title: Does Acculturation Really Matter for Internal Migrants’ Health?
Event information19 November 2020
Speaker: Dr. Fenghua Pan
Title: State-led Financialization in China
Event information- 2019-20
10 December 2019
Speaker: Prof. Wen Chen
Title: Regional Integration in Yangtze River Delta
Event information13 November 2019
Speaker: Prof. Nick Phelps
Title: The Trials of China’s Technoburbia
Event information- 2018-19
13th March 2019
Speaker: Prof. Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Title: Restructuring of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Macau Mega City Region
Event information1 February 2019
Speaker: Dr. Zheng Wang
Title: The social impact of Chinese mega projects – Insights from Shanghai Lingang
Event information21 November 2018
Speaker: Dr. Helen Bao
Title: Nudging Towards a Better Financial Future
Event information24 October 2018
Speaker: Wenyue Ding and Tingwen Zhu
Title: Urban Planning Practices in China
Event information1 October 2018
Speaker: Dr Zhi Liu and Prof. Canfei He
Title: Urban industrial evolution
Event information- 2017-18
14 June 2018
Speaker: Jie Shen and Prof. Shiuh-Shen Chien
Title: Governing suburban new towns in China and Green Developmentalism and Trade-off between Natural Preservation and Environmental Exploitation in China
Event information2 May 2018
Speaker: Dr Zhi Liu
Title: Reforming Land Policy in China
Event information23 January 2018
Speaker: Prof. Eddie Hui
Title: Planning for Megacity Region in China
Event information17 January 2018
Speakers: Degao Zheng and Ying Wang
Title: Urban Planning Practices in China
Event information6 December 2017
Speaker: HaeRan Shin
Title: Muddling through in practicing transnationalism
Event information- 2016-17
10 February 2017
Speaker: Cindy Fan
Title: From Split Households to Familization: Strategies of China's Rural-Urban Migrants
Event information17 January 2017
Speaker: Dr. Jinhua Zhao
Title: Transportation as a Language: Mobility Management of China's Urban Billion
Event information14 December 2016
Speaker: Dr. Ye Liu
Title: Growth of rural migrant enclaves in Guangzhou, China
Event information- 2015-16
23 May 2016
Speaker: Xiaodong Shi
Title: Beijing's transition of urban development in the context of the Jing-Jin-Ji region
Event information21 April 2016
Speaker: Dr. Jiang Xu
Title: Bargaining for Nature: Treating the Environment in China's Urban Planning Practice
Event information16 March 2016
Speaker: Dr. Xing Quan Zhang
Title: Global Rental Housing Trends and Practices
Event information21 January 2016
Speaker: Dr. Jung Won Sonn
Title: Agglomeration Economy in Knowlege Production in Chinese Cities: An Analysis of Patent Records
Event information16 December 2015
Speaker: Xiaojiang Li
Title: Recent Trend of Urban Planning in China
Event information2 December 2015
Speakers: Various
Title: RTPI Launch Event: Planning for Growth
Event information18 November 2015
Speakers: Various
Title: Sustainable Urban Development in China
Event information10 November 2015
Speakers: Dr. Zhi Liu
Title: Land Policy and Municipal Finance in China: Issues and Reform Prospects
Event information27 October 2015
Speakers: Dr. Hui Qian and Dr. Yang Zhou
Title: Urban Planning Practices in East China
Event information5 October 2015
Speakers: Juan Sun
Title: From Eco to Eco+
Event information