In this open access special issue, we assembled a series of articles on China’s integrated urban-rural development policy, fiscal decentralization, job-housing balance, local government-firm connection, new housing investment, and infrastructure capital investment. Please follow link here
Category Archives: cities
New book on metropolitan governance
My co-edited book with Bligh Grant at University of Technology Sydney and Lin Ye at Sun Yat-Sen University is finally out! Titled “Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim: Borders, Challenges, Futures”, it features a collection of diverse chapters from that region. Check it out on Springer website here
Hong Kong Conference Marathon
Was in Hong Kong for two urban conferences co-organized by GSU and Hong Kong Baptist University: The International Conference on Polarisation, Fragmentation and Resilience: Four Urban Contexts Compared (link here) and Global Partnership for Better Cities – Hong Kong Sandpit (link here). Comparative is the way to go for urban research!
Welcoming Cities in a Snapshot
Our new report on welcoming cities provides a comprehensive view of their geographic location, timeline, sociodemographic characteristics and policy areas. Please check out our report for the Center for State and Local Finance here . There are also great work on immigrants and community development done by researchers at other Atlanta based universities like GaTech and Kennesaw State. More infoContinue reading “Welcoming Cities in a Snapshot”
Global Partnership for Better Cities
This is a GSU-led efforts that convene partners from South Africa and Hong Kong to discuss common urban challenges facing cities around the world. A three day conference and site visits brought many perspectives and ideas for future dialogue. See here for more information and here for the great pictures of comparison cities our libraryContinue reading “Global Partnership for Better Cities”
Be Serene – Serenbe
The 2nd RayDay celebration hosted by the Ray Anderson Foundation brought me to the town of Serenbe, southwest of Atlanta, in Chattahoochee Hills. A Utopian dream or a new urbanism mecca as touted by some, this town is nested in the greenness, connected to nature and its offerings, adopts sustainable design, and has shops aroundContinue reading “Be Serene – Serenbe”
Urban Life in Europe
My recent conference and leisure trip to Greece (Athens conference) and France (Paris conference) reignited my belief in urban life and city living. What is more gratifying to an urban scholar than seeing subway trains packed with passengers, pedestrian streets heavily used by walkers and street front cafes and brasseries full of happy people. IContinue reading “Urban Life in Europe”
Dr. Cathy Yang Liu 