Publications

Urban Development in Post-Reform China State, Market, Space

Author(s) - Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu, Anthony Gar-on Yeh

Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities are playing an important role in China's overall economic development. The creation of housing and land markets is rapidly changing the face of Chinese cities. Mushrooming skyscrapers in the newly established central business district contrast shapely with the nearby old urban areas and unruly migrant settlements in urban fringes. Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with ever-presence of state control. This book explores the interaction of China's market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of new urban spaces.

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space

Edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu

A sea change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the convergence thesis that sees cities everywhere becoming more Western in form, and suggestions that the Chinese city is best seen as a multiplex city, Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

Globalization and the Chinese City

Edited by: Fulong Wu

Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, the international team of contributors describe overarching globalisation through a detailed examination of the transformation of the built environment. A range of urban development processes are analysed including urbanisation, real estate development, changing landscapes, the industrial restructuring of the second-tier city, and the formation of the city-region in the context of global and local interactions. In examining city development and local practices as part of globalisation processes, the global city is treated as a collection of microcosms and concrete places, overcoming the analytical tension of the dichotomy of the East versus West.

The City of Transition and the Transition of Cities (Urban Geography Special Issues - Vol. 26, No. 2 and No.3)

Guest Editor: Fulong Wu. The transformation of the Chinese city presents a two-dimensional complexity: introducing more market mechanisms into a country where there was no pervasive market coordination, and modernizing (now globalizing) the country with fast reindustrialization (i.e. trying to become the world's factory). China thus brings about both the characteristics of post-reform (or even postsocialism) and of the Third World. That is, the Chinese city, as the city of transition (marketization/globalization) may reflect the transition process of the cities in the world. In this two-part special issue, we focus on the changing urban space and changing production of space...

Chinese Cities in Global Perspectives

Fulong Wu, Laurence Ma, and Jingxiang Zhang are editing a major book in Chinese to be published by one of the most prestigious publishers in China - Science Press. The volume is contributed by such world leading scholars on urban China as John Logan, Yixing Zhou, Laurence J C Ma, Carolyn Cartier, Jianfa Shen, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Alan Smart, Wing-shing Tang, Piper Gaubatz, Tianshu Pan, Tingwei Zhang, Xiaoping Shen, Si-Ming Li, Youqin Huang, Weiping Wu, Li Zhang, Jingxiang Zhang, and Fulong Wu.

Urbanization in China: Habitat International Special Issue (Vol. 30, No. 2: 191-356 - June 2006)

Edited by Fulong Wu, Laurence J.C. Ma, Eddie C.M. Hui and Francis K.W. Wong

The special issue includes 12 articles, and is divided into two parts.

Part 1: China's Globalizing Cities. Part 2: Affordable Housing in China.

The New Chinese City: Transformation of urban space in Chinese transitional economy

F Wu (2002) The transformation of urban space in Chinese transitional economy: with special reference to Shanghai. In J. R. Logan (ed.) The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford. pp. 154-166.

Globalization, the Changing State, and Local Governance in Shanghai

F Wu (2006) Globalization, the Changing State, and Local Governance in Shanghai. In Xiangming Chen (ed.) Local Transformations in Global Cities: Shanghai in Comparative Perspective. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 296-321.

Publications in Chinese

Some publications are available in Chinese. To read these, you will need to download PDFs included here using Adobe Reader with Chinese fonts installed.

Sociospatial differentiation in transitional Shanghai

Zhigang Li and Fulong Wu. Sociospatial differentiation in transitional Shanghai. Acta Geographica Sinica.

Global city polarization and sociospatial restructuring in Shanghai

Zhigang Li, Fulong Wu, and Xiangdong Gao (in press). Global city polarization and sociospatial restructuring in Shanghai. Scientia Geographica Sinica.

Differentiation under transition: a review of sociospatial differentiation in the post-socialist cities

Zhigang Li, Fulong Wu (in press) Differentiation under transition: a review of sociospatial differentiation in the post-socialist cities. Urban Planning Forum.

Sociospatial differentiation in urban China: a case study of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai

Zhigang Li, Fulong Wu, Hanlong Lu. 2004. Sociospatial differentiation in urban China: a case study of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai. City Planning Review. Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 60-67.

Spatial Analysis of Urban Poverty in Nanjing

Guo Chen, Chao-Lin Gu, Fu-Long Wu, 2004. Spatial Analysis of Urban Poverty in Nanjing. Scientia Geographica Sinica. Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 542-549.

Planning the golden city: Peter Hall's urban world

Fulong Wu, Zhigang Li, and Shenjing He, 2004. Planning the golden city: Peter Hall's urban world. Urban Planning Overseas Vol. 19, No. 4., pp. 1-3.

Disjuncture between employment and social security

Ningying Huang and Fulong Wu, 2004. Disjuncture between employment and social security. Journal of Fujian Normal University, Vol. 124, No. 1, pp. 55-58.

Urban governance towards a market economy in China

Fulong Wu, 2002. Urban governance towards a market economy in China. City Planning Review. Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 33-35.

From Merger of Administrative Region to Regional Governance: Case Study of Yangtze River Delta

Jingxiang Zhang, Fulong Wu, 2004.  From Merger of Administrative Region to Regional Governance: Case Study of Yangtze River Delta. City Planning Review. Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 25-30.

Sociospatial differentiation in urban China: a case study of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai

Zhigang Li, Fulong Wu, Hanlong Lu. 2004. Sociospatial differentiation in urban China: a case study of three neighbourhoods in Shanghai. City Planning Review. Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 60-67.