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BIO


    FULONG WU

Fulong Wu Professor of East Asian Planning and Development;
Director of the Urban China Research Centre, Cardiff University.

Fulong Wu is Chair Professor of East Asian Planning and Development, and the Director of Urban China Research Centre www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/ucrc in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. His research interests include Chinese cities, urban transition and dynamic urban modelling. He has published many papers on urban spatial structure, urban housing and land development in Chinese cities, and is working on China's new urbanism, urban and regional governance, urban poverty, social spatial differentiation, urban redevelopment, and the calibration of dynamic urban models. He serves as a member of the editorial advisory board of Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning B, Computer, Environment and Urban Systems, and Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. He is a member of the board of directors of Urban China Research Network (UCRN), the coordinator in the working group entitled 'spatial restructuring, urban planning and politics' funded by the UCRN, and the coordinator of a British Higher Education Link project with China. In 2001, he received Otto Koenigsberger Prize from Habitat International. His recently edited book Globalization and the Chinese City is published by Routledge. He co-edited 'Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space', Routledge, London (with Laurence Ma) and GeoDynamics, CRC press, New York (with Peter Atkinson, Giles Foody, and Steven Darby). His forthcoming book to be published by Routledge is 'Urban Development in Post-Reform China: Market, State and Space' (with Jiang Xu and Anthony Gar-On Yeh). He guest-edited special issues in Environment and Planning A, Urban Geography, and Habitat International. Since 2000 he has been the principle investigator of eleven research projects funded by the organizations such as ESRC, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, the UCRN and DFID/the British Council.

Fulong Wu's main research specialities include

East Asian urban studies, in particular Chinese cities

The study of urban governance, place promotion

Social and spatial implications of urban development Beijing, China)