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PA 5880 SyllabusPlanning for China’s Urban Billion
Yingling Fan (Instructor)Associate Professor, Urban and Regional PlanningHumphrey School of Public AffairsUniversity of MinnesotaOffice: 295E Humphrey School E-mail: [email protected]
Zhengyang Gao (Assistant Instructor)Training Program ManagerChina Center University of MinnesotaOffice: 160 University International CenterE-mail: [email protected]
Course DescriptionChina is home to the world’s largest urban population. If current urbanization trends continue, China will have one billion urban population by 2030. How Chinese cities can minimize the pressures and maximize the opportunities of urban expansion is a critical question that affects every aspect of urban planning, ranging from affordable housing provision to historic preservation to rural development to transportation demand management.
This intensive 2-week study abroad course between May 19 and June 1, 2018 will familiarize students with urban planning practices and emerging development issues in four unique Chinese cities: Beijing, Xi’an, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. By integrating guest lectures, site visits, and cross-cultural classroom activities, the course will create immersive learning experiences that directly connect students to foreign cultures, alternative ways of life, and exciting urban landscapes.
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Overview of Class Schedule and Activities
City Date Day Time
Activities
Beijing May 19 Sat PM Students arrive and meet instructors in BeijingMay 20 Sun AM Tourism - Great Wall PM Site visits: 798 Art ZoneMay 21 Mon AM Orientation & lectures at China Academy of Urban Planning and Design PM Site visits: Planning Exhibition Hall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden CityMay 22 Tue AM Lectures at World Resources Institute PM Site visits: Bike sharing and car sharing companies May 23 Wed AM High speed rail to Xi'an
Xi’an May 23 Wed PM Free time & dinner with Northwest University studentsMay 24 Thu AM Lectures at Northwest University PM Site visits: City Wall, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Muslim QuarterMay 25 Fri AM Photovoice assignment 1: site visits PM Photovoice assignment 1: student presentations May 26 Sat AM Site visits: small town and rural planning PM Tourism- Terracotta ArmyMay 27 Sun AM Flight to Guangzhou
Guangzhou May 27 Sun PM Free time & dinner with Sun Yat-Sen University StudentsMay 28 Mon AM Lectures at Sun Yat-Sen University PM Site visits: Planning Museum, Zhujiang New Town, Shangxiajiu StreetMay 29 Tue AM Photovoice assignment 2: site visits PM Photovoice assignment 2: student presentationsMay 30 Wed AM Rail to Hong Kong
Hong Kong May 30 Wed PM Lectures at the City University of Hong Kong May 31 Thu AM Site visits - Avenue of Stars, Star Ferry, City Gallery & Victoria Harbor PM Site visits - Tram Tour, Central Mid-Levels EscalatorJune 1 Fri AM Course reflection & summary PM Free time
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Tentative Site Visits, Speakers, Presentations, and Readings
Beijing, May 19-23Site visits: Great Wall, 798 Art Zone, Planning Exhibition Hall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, bike sharing and car sharing companies, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, World Resources Institute
LIU, Daizong [World Resources Institute] [email protected] Daizong, China Transport Program Director, joined World Resources Institute (WRI) in 2015, led or participated several Chinese Public Transportation Developments projects in the design, operation, planning and policy fields, and implemented in many cities including Beijing, Chongqing, Jiangsu, and Jinan. He established a non-profit social media platform with WeChat and Weibo public accounts named @SustainableCity, bringing a group of 180 passionate professional volunteers to promote sustainable urban development. The platform has attracted over 35,000 followers today. Mr. Liu Daizong obtained Master degree in transportation engineering from the National University of Singapore, and Bachelor degree in Traffic Engineering, from the Southeast University. Prior to joining WRI, he has worked 10 years for the China Sustainable Transportation Center, partner with the Energy Foundation from 2005 to 2015, and worked 3 year for CPG consultancy Company in Singapore.
Comprehensive Solution for Transit Oriented Urban RedevelopmentsRapid urbanization has posed enormous challenges for many Chinese cities to achieve sustainable urban development. A key issue for sustainable development is the relationship between transportation and land use. How to leverage transportation infrastructure, especially public transportation infrastructure, to concentrate land use intensity and guide urban regeneration efforts is a central question to many local policy makers in China. With more than 10 years of experience in promoting transit development in China and drawing on international best practices, Mr. Daizong Liu developed a comprehensive framework for promoting and implementing transit-oriented urban redevelopment projects in Chinese cities. The framework, titled Comprehensive Solution for Transit Oriented Urban Redevelopments (CSTOUR), include three major components: Transit Oriented Planning, TOP: Transit Optimization and Reform, and Transit Oriented Design. Mr. Liu will give a graphically intensive lecture introducing the theoretical underpinning of the CSTOUR framework and examples of successful CSTOUR implementation in Chines cities.
WANG, Hongjie [China Academy of Urban Planning and Design] [email protected]
Hongjie Wang is the Chief Planner of the Urban Design Institute at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design. Her design work has received many awards, including First Prize Award from the Urban Design Competition of Huangcun Satellite City, the Conceptual Planning for the Core Area of Kunming competition, and the International Competition of Urban Design of Chongqing CBD; and Second Prize Award from the International Competition of Urban Design of Huzhou Central Administrative District, Urban Design of Beijing Central Axis, and the Conceptual Planning of the Renovation of Main Streets &
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Districts in Beijing for 2008 Olympics. Hongjie received the Master of Architecture degree from Tianjin University, China.
New Life for Beijing’s Hutongs: Preservation and Regeneration in Beijing’s Historic NeighborhoodsHutongs are narrow alleyways formed by lines of courtyard residences running east to west within the inner areas of Beijing city. The architectural style of the Beijing courtyard is unique and can only be found in the hutongs of the capital city. Ms. Hongjie Wang’s lecture will focus on recent efforts of historic preservation and urban regeneration of Beijing’s Hutongs.
SUN, Tieshan [Peking University] [email protected] Sun obtained his Ph.D. degree in Planning from the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, and is currently an Associate Professor in urban and regional economics at the School of Government, Peking University. His research specializes in the fields of land use, transportation and urban development. His recent work mainly focuses on the growth and spatial transformation of Chinese mega cities and the polycentric urban development in China.
Spatial Development and Planning of Metropolitan Beijing in the 21st CenturyHis talk will review the history of spatial planning of Beijing, examine the recent spatial development characteristics and trends of metropolitan Beijing, including the changing spatial patterns with urban expansion and their impacts on urban development, and discuss the major challenges that Beijing is facing with dramatic urban restructuring.
Xi’an: May 23-27Site visits: Northwest University, City Wall, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Muslim Quarter, Small town and rural planning, Terracotta Army
ZHU, Jing [Northwest University, China] [email protected] Jing Zhu is a Lecturer of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University. She got her doctor’s degree at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. Her study interest is transportation and public health, urban and regional planning. She has been a visiting scholar in HHH, UMN from Sept. 2015 to Sept. 2016.
Introduction of Xi’an city and Xi’an Comprehensive PlanningXi’an is one of the oldest cities in China. It is the starting point of the Silk Road and home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The Comprehensive Planning of Xi’an arranges the land use type, spatial structure and infrastructures of the city to protect lots of heritages, and to make room for future development in the city.
ZHAO, Xinzheng [Northwest University, China] [email protected]
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Xinzheng Zhao is a human geographer at College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northwest University. He started the research of Urban Network since about 2010 when he preparing for Ph.D dissertation in East China Normal University in Shanghai. He had visited University of Utah from 2010 to 2011 as a visiting scholar and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in University of Lethbridge in 2012.
The character of Urban Network of China: a study based on the Chinese 500 Fortune enterprise Network paradigm is a hot area of urban geography. In this lecture, Dr. Zhao will show us some research results about Chinese Urban Network based on the Chinese 500 Fortune enterprise under the support of NSFC. You will find a compromising mode in translating the enterprise network to urban network, and know more about both the spatial connection character of Urban Network and the Urban Agglomeration Network of China.
LI, Gang [Northwest University, China] [email protected] Gang Li is an associate professor at Northwest University. He obtained PHD in geography from Lanzhou University and was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA from 2009 to 2010 and Heidelberg University, Germany from 2016 t0 2017, and a postdoc at Graz University, Austria from 2010 to 2011. His current research interests include historical locust plague and human trafficking.
Recent progress in geographical studies of internal trafficking in children in mainland ChinaCurrent knowledge and definition of trafficking in persons from international context systematically misunderstand the special situation of trafficking in children in China. Based on multi-source data and multiple methods, here we report our recent progress in geographical studies of internal trafficking in children in mainland China through examining the spatial patterns, temporal dynamics, underlying mechanisms, and prevention & control measures from an interdisciplinary integration perspective.
Guangzhou: May 27-30Site visits: Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Planning Museum, urban villages, Zhujiang New Town, Shangxiajiu Street
ZHOU, Suhong [Sun Yat-sen University] [email protected] Zhou is a professor the School of Geography and Planning of Sun Yat-Sen University. She is currently member of the China Society for Urban Planning Council; vice chairman of the Big Data Specialized Committee, Urban China Research Council; executive member of Geography Society of Guangdong Province, China; expert in major administrative decision-making consultation in Guangdong Province, China. Her main research fields are urban geography, urban transport and land use，spatial-temporal of daily activities, urban policy and applied geographic information science in recent years. She is PI of four National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and more than 30 provincial and local
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research and consultation projects. Currently, she has published 2 books and more than 120 academic journal papers. She has received the "Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award" of China Geography Society and the National Science Foundation of China---Excellent Young Scientist Program.
Spatial Temporal Behavior Research and Application in ChinaThe research and application of spatiotemporal behavior has been paid more attention and developed rapidly in china recently, especially under the emerging of the new terms such as "big data", "Internet +", "Crowdsourcing" and so on. The rapid development of new technology and production of spatio-temporal big data also brought some new methods, new ideas and new research questions. This report will briefly discuss the theories and applications of spatiotemporal behavior research in urban planning, public security, health, and intelligent decision making, etc. in China, and look forward to the future.
YUAN, yuan [Sun Yat-sen University] [email protected] Yuan Yuan is a professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University. She is deputy dean of Urbanization Institute of Sun Yat-Sen University. She got her bachelor and master degree in School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, and got her PhD in School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-Sen University. Dr. Yuan’s research focuses on urban deprivation, urban poverty and community planning. She has been the principal investigator of three research projects funded by National Nature Science Foundation of China. She was selected in The Guangdong provincial youth talent support program in 2017. She was an investigator of international research projects sponsored by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK. Dr. Yuan has published more than seventy papers in refereed journals. She has published, translated and co-edited 4 books. She is the first contributor or independent authors to 3 software copyrights. She has received more than 10 awards for her outstanding papers and teaching.
The Measurement of Urban Poverty Based on Characteristics of Urban Built Environment—Taking the Inner City Core of Guangzhou as an ExampleMost of previous studies on poverty measurement mainly use census data and socio-economic statistics. It can present spatial distribution of regional poverty but it is difficult to apply to the study of urban poverty due to the low availability of data. On the basis of remote sensing images from Google and Landsat-8, the paper measured the material poverty of 718 residents committees in the inner city core of Guangzhou by analyzing the land cover, the overall complexity and the variation of heterogeneity. And then we compared the spatial distribution of material poverty with the spatial distribution of comprehensive poverty based on the 6th national population census data. In the end, we explored the differences and applicability of the two measurement methods combined with our field investigation. The result shows that: 1) There is no significant difference in the most impoverished area between the two methods. 2) The method based on census data can present the overall spatial distribution better and distinguish the poverty area with a long history of urbanization sensitively. The result of the method based on remote sensing images, which is sensitive to typical poverty space, is more aggregative. 3) It is of great significance to improve the research frameworks of urban poverty and to recommend the area-based policy.LIU, Ye [Sun Yat-sen University] [email protected]
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Dr Ye Liu is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University. Prior to joining Sun Yat-Sen University in 2016, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of St Andrews, UK (2016), Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2014-2016), and Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Lethbridge, Canada (2013-2014). He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Sun Yat-Sen University and Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His primary research interests focus on Migration, Inequality, Neighborhood Effect, Health Inequality, Urbanization and Wellbeing. He has published widely in English and Chinese. He was awarded an early-career scholar grant from the Thousand Talent Plan (Qian Ren Ji Hua) in 2017. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a project funded by Natural Science Foundation of China.
Growth of rural migrant enclaves in Guangzhou, China: Agency, informality and social mobilityPrevious scholarship on migrant enclaves in Chinese cities has portrayed rural migrants as no more than passive and powerless sojourners. In these narratives, rural migrants are exploited by global capitalist production, constrained by the household registration (hukou) system and trapped in the lowest tier of urban labour and housing market. What is missing in this body of literature is the investigation of the bottom-up agency of rural migrants during the growth of migrant enclaves. This research aims to provide a more sophisticated understanding of the dynamism of migrant enclaves and their implications to migrants’ wellbeing in Chinese cities. Through an in-depth study on Xiaohubei, a migrant enclave with a high concentration of Hubei migrants and small-scale garment producers, in Guangzhou, China, this research examines how migrants negotiate institutional, social, and cultural constraints through urban informality, how they mobilize their resources and power to improve their wellbeing, and how they achieve upward mobility through participating in the enclave-based informal economy. Our findings challenge the conventional wisdom that rural migrants are no more than a homogeneous social group passively responding to economic opportunities and obediently succumbing to constraints. On the contrary, some rural migrants, especially migrant entrepreneurs, play an active and leading role in the growth and prosperity of migrant enclaves. Our findings also show that migrant enclaves are neither hopeless ‘slums’ nor temporary ‘footholds’; they serve as an efficient pathways of upward mobility and an entry point for rural migrants to integrate into host cities. In this sense, migrant enclaves smooth the process of Chinese urbanization. The findings of our research suggest the necessity to reflect on the massive eradication of migrant enclaves in Chinese cities.
Hong Kong: May 30-June 1Site visits: Avenue of Stars, Star Ferry, City Gallery, Victoria Harbor, Central Mid-Levels Escalator, Tram Tour , City University of Hong Kong
HUANG, Jianxiang [University of Hong Kong] [email protected]. Jianxiang Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. His primary interest is sustainable design, emphasizing the shaping of cities to meet the challenges in the contemporary era, i.e., density, climate change, resource constraints, health and the quality of life. Huang holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University and a Master in City Planning from MIT.
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We live in a profoundly man-made climate. A city, especially a dense one, modifies its physical environment, i.e. sunlight, views, temperature, air quality, noises, moisture, to a degree that often differ from those accustomed by our ancestors. Dr. Huang’s presentation introduces the impact of outdoor environment of streets and open spaces on quality of urban life in high density cities. He discusses how mathematical models describing mass and energy exchanges between air, urban surfaces, and vegetation can be used to improve urban design. The presentation concludes with behavior and health impacts of the man-made climate in high-density cities along with recommendations to make urban places more comfortable, enjoyable, and conducive to healthy and sustainable life styles.
LIU, Xingjian [University of Hong Kong] [email protected]. Xingjian Liu received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the UK, and joined the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong in Spring 2015. He has previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the US. Xingjian has received a number of scholarly awards, including Regional Studies Association & Routledge Early Career Award (2015) and the Association of American Geographers -Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group Emerging Scholar Award (2013).
The Rise of Hong Kong as a Global CityIn a century and a half, Hong Kong has flourished from a fishing village to a city of migrants and factories and in recent decades “Asia’s Global City”. We will examine in this presentation the scale, causes, and consequences of this urban transformation in Hong Kong. More specifically, we will explore how Hong Kong’s urban form, external connections, socioeconomic structures, environmental concerns, as well as policy responses have evolved over the years. Special attention will be given to the role of planning in developing Hong Kong as a global city.
ZHANG xiaoling [City University of Hong Kong] [email protected]. Xiaoling Zhang is Associate Professor in the Urban Research Group, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. She has a longstanding and interdisciplinary interest in sustainable urbanism as well as urban redevelopment featured in China and Hong Kong. She has also engaged in environmental studies, particularly in the developers’ behavior/ actions in contributing to social responsibility/sustainable development, land use studies, energy policy and renewable & sustainable energy use as well as the mechanisms of changes in built environment. This has led to more than 110 SCI/SSCI publications. Her current book in planning is titled ‘Remaking sustainable urbanism: space, scale, governance in the new urban era?’, which will come out soon in 2018. She has led a number of competitive research projects including two RGC grants and two NSFC grants and several invited keynote presentations at international conferences. Dr Zhang was also the winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award for Junior Faculty 2017 and the President Awards 2016.
Remaking sustainable urbanism: new context, new challenges in the big data eraThe sustainable city research field draws upon scholarly attempts from multiple academic corners, e.g. to rethink the interactions between nature and society, between the global and the local, and between technology and citizens, etc. Inherently heterogeneous, if not fragmented, in scope and practice, the kaleidoscope nature of the “field” of sustainable city science worries urban researchers and practitioners in the past decades. In particular, Chinese cities are experiencing an evolving, highly
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intertwined confluence of slowing-down growth, social polarization, aggravating urban pollution and resource drain, and spatial desolation from city to city, all of which speaks of the loom of an urban impasse, a barrier to urban sustainability. Moreover, the rapid growth of Chinese cities is not only a dramatic implosion-explosion of society, economy and technology within China but also profoundly reshapes the political economy and ecology of the planet. It is therefore important to raise the fundamental questions regarding what the field of sustainable city science is meant, how it is practiced, and how it should be pursued in future.
Course ReadingsThere is no required textbook for this course. All required readings will be provided and prepared by the instructor. The readings will be downloadable from the Moodle course website, which will be available on March 1, 2018. Readings are critical to success in this course and it will be important to keep up to date. Assigned readings for classes are expected to be done in advance of the class.
Course Evaluation Class participation: (20%) Photovoice Assignments (2 assignments, 20% each) Graphic reflective journal Assignment (4 entries; 10% each)
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