Asia and the Pacific Rim: The New Peri-Urbanization and Urban Theory

Abstract

An Urban Village within a City – Guangzhou, China (2011)

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Jill Simone Gross

Jill Simone Gross is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She currently serves on the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association, where she chairs the International Committee. In that capacity she has worked with the committee to expand the international visibility and membership of the association. She co-chaired the Asia Pacific Track at the San Francisco meeting. She teaches and conducts research in comparative urban politics and development in Western European, North American, and Chinese cities, with an emphasis on issues of migration, integration, equity and inclusion.

Lin Ye

Lin Ye is an Associate Professor in Center for Chinese Public Administration Research, Institute for Urban Governance and Urban Development, School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. His research interests are in urban policy and politics, metropolitan and regional governance, and urbanization in China. His academic work has appeared in both urban studies and public administration journals such as Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Journal of Planning Literature, Social Policy and Administration, Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, and other journals in China. He holds an MPA and PhD in urban and public affairs from the University of Louisville.

Richard Legates

Richard LeGates is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University and a Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at Tongji University (Shanghai). He is the co-author of Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China: Learning from Chengdu (2013) and co-editor of The City Reader, 5th Edition (2011), The Chinese City Reader (2013), and the Routledge urban reader series. In 2012 he visited Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. From 2011 to 2013 he was co–principal investigator in a study of Chengdu’s coordinated urban and rural development policies. He has also taught at the University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, Charles University (Prague), Renmin University (Beijing), and the American University of Sharjah (UAE).