果冻影院

Speaker:听Professor Nick Phelps,听Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International,听Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning,听University of Melbourne

Abstract:听Set against the wider background of global suburbanization, this paper contributes to the emerging literature on the formation of technoburbia in China, and more importantly, the potential 鈥渦rban contradictions鈥� accompanying this process. Through a bottom-up empirical exploration of the Future Sci-tech City Corridor in Hangzhou and its embedded Featured Town initiative in particular, we observe how the future of technoburbia in China is by no means free from similar challenges in housing affordability and labor stratification. However, these contradictions are managed entirely differently in China. Nevertheless, the highly planned nature of China鈥檚 technoburbia also rubs up against political decentralization, demographic change and economic upgrading, implying significant trials and tribulations along the way.

Short bio:听Professor Nick Phelps was previously Professor of Urban and Regional Development in the Bartlett School of Planning and Pro Vice Provost Regional (Southeast Asia and Australasia) at 果冻影院. His books include Interplaces (OUP, 2017), Sequel to Suburbia (MIT Press, 2016), International Perspectives on Suburbanization (with Fulong Wu Palgrave, 2011) and An Anatomy of Sprawl (Routledge, 2011). He is on the editorial boards of Economic Geography, Urban Geography and Journal of Economic Geography.

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