Transactions in Planning and Urban Research
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Transactions in Planning and Urban Research is a platform for diverse new inquiries and dialogues on the urban and regional development and planning processes in China. China’s phenomenal and accelerated urbanisation presents an exciting laboratory for researchers to observe economic, environmental, social-cultural, and governance changes and innovations in the contemporary world. For instance, being the world’s largest carbon emitter and the second largest economy means that China’s role in tackling some of the most pressing challenges such as climate change. Despite being the largest carbon emitter, China is also an important site of experimentation in new ways to reduce carbon emissions, including urban energy transitions towards renewable energies and the development of a range of urban green infrastructures such as eco-cities, greenways, and sponge cities.
Although urban China may display aspects of uniqueness, these novel features of Chinese cities are not exceptional and nor do they exist in silos disconnected from the rest of the world. Instead, Chinese cities are intricately connected to other contexts and are parts of wider transnational and global processes. At the same time, however, many aspects of China’s urbanisation and its future trajectory are not pre-defined by existing theories and instead require both contextual and comparative research (Robinson, 2016). We therefore believe that urban China can provide fertile ground to critically reflect on existing theories and create new concepts, as well as become a launching pad to establish dialogues with other contexts.
As a research field, ‘Urban China’ is growing rapidly and is one of the most active, dynamic, and well-connected. The research field is situated at the conjuncture of China Studies which comes from the tradition of area studies. It is oriented towards historical, cultural, and political contexts and Urban Studies which treats Chinese urbanisation as part of political, economic, environmental, and social-cultural changes of the (de-)globalising world. Whilst both research traditions have contributed greatly towards a better understanding of urban China, we felt that there is a need for a journal that can bridge the two and treat Chinese urbanisation in a holistic, reflexive, grounded way without being confined to historical and cultural specificities. As such, it is time to introduce a journal that pays particular attention to recent developments in China and their policy implications, while situating this research in comparative perspectives within wider urban processes.
Although urban China may display aspects of uniqueness, these novel features of Chinese cities are not exceptional and nor do they exist in silos disconnected from the rest of the world. Instead, Chinese cities are intricately connected to other contexts and are parts of wider transnational and global processes. At the same time, however, many aspects of China’s urbanisation and its future trajectory are not pre-defined by existing theories and instead require both contextual and comparative research (Robinson, 2016). We therefore believe that urban China can provide fertile ground to critically reflect on existing theories and create new concepts, as well as become a launching pad to establish dialogues with other contexts.
As a research field, ‘Urban China’ is growing rapidly and is one of the most active, dynamic, and well-connected. The research field is situated at the conjuncture of China Studies which comes from the tradition of area studies. It is oriented towards historical, cultural, and political contexts and Urban Studies which treats Chinese urbanisation as part of political, economic, environmental, and social-cultural changes of the (de-)globalising world. Whilst both research traditions have contributed greatly towards a better understanding of urban China, we felt that there is a need for a journal that can bridge the two and treat Chinese urbanisation in a holistic, reflexive, grounded way without being confined to historical and cultural specificities. As such, it is time to introduce a journal that pays particular attention to recent developments in China and their policy implications, while situating this research in comparative perspectives within wider urban processes.
China’s massively accelerated urbanisation presents a laboratory for researchers to observe economic, social, and governance changes in the contemporary world. To understand Chinese urbanisation requires both contextual and comparative research. Known as ‘Urban China Research’ in Planning and Urban Studies, this research field is growing rapidly. It is situated in the conjuncture of China Studies oriented towards historical, cultural, and political contexts and Planning and Urban Studies treating Chinese urbanisation as part of political, economic, and social changes in the globalising world.
Transactions in Planning and Urban Research will make an original contribution to academic and policy debate related to the phenomenal urban development of China. In addition to investigating historical and geographical processes of Chinese development, the journal explores urban China in the wider global context and seeks meaningful connection between interpretative analysis and planning policy development. The journal publishes peer-reviewed academic papers of around 8,000 words that affect Chinese urban and regional development. The journal will focus on recent developments in China, and their policy implications, while situating the research in comparative perspectives within wider processes as appropriate.
Managing Editors
| Fangzhu Zhang | University College London, UK |
| Zhigang Li | Wuhan University, China |
Associate Editors
| Hamnett Chris | Kings College London, UK |
| Yang Xiao | Tongji University, China |
| Zheng Wang | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
International Editorial Board
| Yawei Chen | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| C. Cindy Fan | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Philip Harrison | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Shenjing He | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China |
| You-tien Hsing | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Youqin Huang | State University of New York, USA |
| Andy Jonas | University of Hull, UK |
| George C.S. Lin | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China |
| John R. Logan | Brown University, USA |
| Julie, T. Miao | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Nicholas Phelps | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Junxi Qian | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China |
| Hyun Bang Shin | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Nick Smith | Barnard College, USA |
| Thierry Theurillat | University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland, Switzerland |
| Ya Ping Wang | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Cecilia Wong | The University of Manchester, UK |
| Max Woodworth | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Fulong Wu | University College London, UK |
| Weiping Wu | Columbia University, USA |
Mainland China Editorial Board
| Wei Chen | Wuhan Planning Institute, China |
| Shuping Cui | Jiangsu Urban and Rural Development Researh Center, China |
| Lingyun Fan | Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China |
| Jiang Gu | Huazhong Normal University, China |
| Canfei He | Beijing University, China |
| Donghua He | Guangzhou Planning Institute, China |
| Hong Leng | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
| Xun Li | Sun Yat-sen University, China |
| Yi Li | Hobai University, China |
| Helin Liu | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
| Jiayan Liu | Tsinghua University, China |
| Yuting Liu | South China University of Technology, China |
| Yong Luo | Guangdong Provincial Planning Institute, China |
| Fenghua Pan | Beijing Normal University, China |
| Zhenghan Qian | LAY-OUT Planning Consultants Co., Ltd., China |
| Bo Qin | Renmin University of China, China |
| Chi Shen | National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China |
| Jie Shen | Fudan University, China |
| Nan Shi | China Planning Society, China |
| Bindong Sun | East China Normal University, China |
| Kai Wang | China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD), China |
| Xingping Wang | Southeast University, China |
| Haixian Xu | Jiang Provincial Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, China |
| Miao Xu | Chongqing University, China |
| Jingxiang Zhang | Nanjing University, China |
| Tianjie Zhang | Tianjin University, China |
| Zhenhua Zhen | Wuhan Land Use and Urban SpatialPlanning Research Center (WLSP), China |
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