Zhu Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhu Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhu |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3412-7822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Labor Futures: New Village ( Xincun ) and the Search for Modern China
The Modern Question: China and Beyond
Toward a New Paradigm of Urbanization through Resettlement: Practices and Insights from China under Planetary Urbanization
This paper conceptualizes urbanization through resettlement as a distinct paradigm in resettlement planning, marking a paradigm shift from viewing resettlement as a by-product to a driver of state-led urbanization in China. Grounded in the framework of planetary urbanization, it draws on two empirical cases, administrative reclassification in Hangzhou and poverty alleviation resettlement in Qianxi, based on multi-method fieldwork conducted from 2…
Spatial planning of China’s lower-tier cities: Strategies, implementation, and consequences
Because of the uneven distribution of territorial power and autonomy, cities in lower positions in China’s urban hierarchical system are typically disadvantageous in obtaining vital and timely political and economic resources. Applying the theoretical discourse of spatial selectivity in state space production, this study focuses on the territorial dimension of spatial strategies and investigates how local spatial selectivity strategies have unfol…
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China
Street network or functional attractors? Capturing pedestrian movement patterns and urban form with the integration of space syntax and MCDA
Collaborative Neighbourhood Governance: Investigating Two Types of Resettlement Neighbourhoods in Suburban Shanghai, China
China's state-sponsored urbanisation has resulted in land expropriation – induced neighbourhoods that accommodate resettled villagers. The complexity of resettlement neighbourhood governance requires multiple governance nodes. Informed by two types of resettlement neighbourhoods in suburban Shanghai, this study examines the horizontal and vertical structures of collaborative neighbourhood governance. The study reveals that the government nodes ha…
Measuring the accessibility deprivation of concentrated resettlement communities in China: An integrated approach of space syntax and multi-criteria decision analysis
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism
Few studies have examined the psychological factors that shape real estate developers’ overbuilding behaviors in China. Through a behavioral lens, this study explores the effect of developers’ excessive optimism on the formation of overbuilding in Ordos City, China. It finds that excessive optimism, manifested by the firm yet unjustified belief in a long-lasting real estate boom, was prevalent among developers who built vacant and unfinished new …
Art district without artists”: Urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China
China's shift from a socialist to a market economy has resulted in deindustrialization and the emergence of industrial heritage. Despite extensive research on state-led (re)development, limited knowledge exists on the changing role of state work-units (SWUs). Based on the case of Dahua 1935, the research reveals how the top-down production of art districts reshapes traditional work-unit urbanism. It also offers new insights into the gentrificatio…
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China
This article discusses how to achieve inclusive resettlement for landless villagers amid China's promotion of urbanization through resettlement. This research conceptualizes the right to resettlement in China by synthesizing the literature on resettlement, the right to the city, and informality. This research captures four subsets of rights to resettlement based on a review of existing resettlement literature, including rights to economic enhance…
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: Conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China
Industrial heritage conservative reuse has become a territorialised urban strategy in China’s recent urban regeneration programmes in which the local state mobilises appropriate property market participants. The spatialised interpretation of two socialist industrial heritage sites in Hangzhou reveals that industrial heritage conservation has been undertaken as property commodity development with built environment enhancement and economic rewards …
Neoliberal financial governance and its transformation under real estate boom and bust: The case of Ordos City, China
The complexity of property rights embedded in the rural-to-urban resettlement of China: A case of Hangzhou
Urbanization through resettlement and the production of space in Hangzhou's concentrated resettlement communities
From upstart city to ‘ghost’ city: Informal housing finance in Ordos, China
This paper applies the perspective of informality to examine the nexus between informal housing finance and housing markets in China. The study explores the causes, formation, influences and consequences of informal housing financing mechanisms in Ordos. It argues that informal housing finance contributes to the local property market boom and becomes an instrument of wealth building through homeownership, but classifies and reinforces social clas…
Territorial Governance, Market Integration and Indigenous Citizens in China’s State-led Eco-tourism: Developing the Xixi National Wetland Park
This paper explores the structural limits of state-led eco-tourism and calls for balancing ecological transformation and socioeconomic sustainability in China’s recent rhetoric of ecological civilization. Through the conceptual lens of political ecology, the paper examines the issues of environmental justice and ecological advancement confronting local communities and the indigenous population in the Xixi National Wetland Park development in Hang…
World Heritage Site inscription and waterfront heritage conservation: Evidence from the Grand Canal historic districts in Hangzhou, China
This paper explores heritage conservation and tourism development en route to and after World Heritage Site inscription and the roles of local authorities and communities through the case of three heritage sites along the Grand Canal in Hangzhou. It interrogates how the World Heritage Site inscription nomination boosts heritage conservation and assesses how the inscription sustains ongoing heritage conservation and tourism business. The study dis…
Neoliberal planning, master plan adjustment and overbuilding in China: The case of Ordos City
Villagers’ acculturation in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhood: A Shanghai case
Displaced villagers’ adaptation in concentrated resettlement community: A case study of Nanjing, China
Determining Diasporic Chinese Identities from a Legal Perspective in China
The Chinese diaspora broadly includes the groups of huaren (华人, ethnic Chinese of different nationalities), huaqiao (华侨, overseas Chinese who are Chinese citizens overseas), guiqiao (归侨, returned overseas Chinese), and qiaojuan (侨眷, relatives in China of overseas Chinese). In the Chinese legal system, the determining of Chinese diasporic status is an important issue in the Chinese diaspora law, as it pertains to the protection of diaspora rights …
Impact of the top-down quota-oriented farmland preservation planning on the change of urban land-use intensity in China
Small town urbanization in Western China: Villager resettlement and integration in Xi’an
Urban morphology and local citizens in China's historic neighborhoods: A case study of the Stele Forest Neighborhood in Xi'an
Land acquisition compensation in post-reform China: Evolution, structure and challenges in Hangzhou
Master plan, plan adjustment and urban development reality under China’s market transition: A case study of Nanjing
Building Hangzhou's new city center: Mega project development and entrepreneurial urban governance in China
Politico-economic landscapes in China have experienced profound changes since the late 1970s. Local governments have transformed their role in urban governance from conventional regulator to entrepreneurial agent. Entrepreneurial urban governance defines the relationships between local government and other interest groups in the urban development process. These issues can be most clearly observed in mega urban project development. Using entrepren…
Impact of the top-down quota-oriented farmland preservation planning on the change of urban land-use intensity in China
Empirical evidence from Hangzhou's urban land reform: Evolution, structure, constraints and prospects
Institutions and local growth coalitions in China's urban land reform: The case of Hangzhou High‐Technology Zone
China's urban land reform is a gradualist process of transforming a planned land allocation system to an open land market system, while the ownership of the land remains under the control of the state. This process defines the relationships between local government and emerging non‐public interest groups in the land development process. These issues can be most clearly seen in the State‐Approved Development Zones, where municipalities have been e…
Small town urbanization in Western China: Villager resettlement and integration in Xi’an
Without zoning: Urban development and land use controls in Houston
Resettlement and adaptation in China's small town urbanization: Evidence from the villagers' perspective
Art district without artists”: Urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China
China's shift from a socialist to a market economy has resulted in deindustrialization and the emergence of industrial heritage. Despite extensive research on state-led (re)development, limited knowledge exists on the changing role of state work-units (SWUs). Based on the case of Dahua 1935, the research reveals how the top-down production of art districts reshapes traditional work-unit urbanism. It also offers new insights into the gentrificatio…
Urbanization through resettlement and the production of space in Hangzhou's concentrated resettlement communities
Hangzhou
Displaced villagers’ adaptation in concentrated resettlement community: A case study of Nanjing, China
Archaeological heritage tourism in China: The case of the Daming Palace from the tourists' perspective
Archaeological heritage tourism has been critical in historic cultural revival, archaeological knowledge dissemination, environment upgrading, and local community improvement. Little has been undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness and consequences of archaeological heritage projects in China from the tourist perspective. This study of the Daming Palace Heritage Site in Xi’an illustrates how archaeological and cultural resources have contributed…
World Heritage Site inscription and waterfront heritage conservation: Evidence from the Grand Canal historic districts in Hangzhou, China
This paper explores heritage conservation and tourism development en route to and after World Heritage Site inscription and the roles of local authorities and communities through the case of three heritage sites along the Grand Canal in Hangzhou. It interrogates how the World Heritage Site inscription nomination boosts heritage conservation and assesses how the inscription sustains ongoing heritage conservation and tourism business. The study dis…
Neoliberal planning, master plan adjustment and overbuilding in China: The case of Ordos City
Declining inner suburbs? A longitudinal-spatial analysis of large metropolitan regions in Canada
Spatially referenced quantitative research that attempts systematically to assess inner suburban decline in Canadian metropolitan areas is almost completely missing from the literature. This paper aims to fill this gap and examine whether inner suburban decline is occurring in Canada. Aggregated census tract level data are used to assess all zones for decline based on relative prosperity changes in median household income, average dwelling values…
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China
This article discusses how to achieve inclusive resettlement for landless villagers amid China's promotion of urbanization through resettlement. This research conceptualizes the right to resettlement in China by synthesizing the literature on resettlement, the right to the city, and informality. This research captures four subsets of rights to resettlement based on a review of existing resettlement literature, including rights to economic enhance…
Neoliberal financial governance and its transformation under real estate boom and bust: The case of Ordos City, China
The complexity of property rights embedded in the rural-to-urban resettlement of China: A case of Hangzhou
Villagers’ acculturation in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhood: A Shanghai case
Urban morphology and local citizens in China's historic neighborhoods: A case study of the Stele Forest Neighborhood in Xi'an
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism
Few studies have examined the psychological factors that shape real estate developers’ overbuilding behaviors in China. Through a behavioral lens, this study explores the effect of developers’ excessive optimism on the formation of overbuilding in Ordos City, China. It finds that excessive optimism, manifested by the firm yet unjustified belief in a long-lasting real estate boom, was prevalent among developers who built vacant and unfinished new …
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: Conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China
Industrial heritage conservative reuse has become a territorialised urban strategy in China’s recent urban regeneration programmes in which the local state mobilises appropriate property market participants. The spatialised interpretation of two socialist industrial heritage sites in Hangzhou reveals that industrial heritage conservation has been undertaken as property commodity development with built environment enhancement and economic rewards …
Territorial Governance, Market Integration and Indigenous Citizens in China’s State-led Eco-tourism: Developing the Xixi National Wetland Park
This paper explores the structural limits of state-led eco-tourism and calls for balancing ecological transformation and socioeconomic sustainability in China’s recent rhetoric of ecological civilization. Through the conceptual lens of political ecology, the paper examines the issues of environmental justice and ecological advancement confronting local communities and the indigenous population in the Xixi National Wetland Park development in Hang…
Postscript by Zhu Guang Qian, Translator of the New Science and Autobiography of Giambattista Vico into Chinese
Institutions and local growth coalitions in China's urban land reform: The case of Hangzhou High‐Technology Zone
China's urban land reform is a gradualist process of transforming a planned land allocation system to an open land market system, while the ownership of the land remains under the control of the state. This process defines the relationships between local government and emerging non‐public interest groups in the land development process. These issues can be most clearly seen in the State‐Approved Development Zones, where municipalities have been e…
Empirical evidence from Hangzhou's urban land reform: Evolution, structure, constraints and prospects
Without zoning: Urban development and land use controls in Houston
Shaping Urban Form without Zoning: Investigating Three Neighbourhoods in Houston
Houston is the only major city in North America without zoning. The growth of Houston illustrates a traditional free market philosophy in which zoning is seen as a violation to private property rights. This paper examines how the lack of zoning has an impact on land use and urban form in Houston. It uses cluster analysis integrating socioeconomic factors to select three case study neighbourhoods, and then applies geographical information systems …
Building Hangzhou's new city center: Mega project development and entrepreneurial urban governance in China
Politico-economic landscapes in China have experienced profound changes since the late 1970s. Local governments have transformed their role in urban governance from conventional regulator to entrepreneurial agent. Entrepreneurial urban governance defines the relationships between local government and other interest groups in the urban development process. These issues can be most clearly observed in mega urban project development. Using entrepren…
Declining inner suburbs? A longitudinal-spatial analysis of large metropolitan regions in Canada
Spatially referenced quantitative research that attempts systematically to assess inner suburban decline in Canadian metropolitan areas is almost completely missing from the literature. This paper aims to fill this gap and examine whether inner suburban decline is occurring in Canada. Aggregated census tract level data are used to assess all zones for decline based on relative prosperity changes in median household income, average dwelling values…
Master plan, plan adjustment and urban development reality under China’s market transition: A case study of Nanjing
China's pre-reform urban transformation: The case of Hangzhou during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
This paper examines the socio-spatial transformation of China during Mao's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Through the lens of political rationales, government programmes, strategies and expertise and knowledge, this study explores Hangzhou's socio-spatial transformation and the dynamics between the societal and spatial dimensions during the Cultural Revolution. It investigates urban restructuring and population changes, public spaces, signature…
Land acquisition compensation in post-reform China: Evolution, structure and challenges in Hangzhou
Hangzhou
Archaeological heritage tourism in China: The case of the Daming Palace from the tourists' perspective
Archaeological heritage tourism has been critical in historic cultural revival, archaeological knowledge dissemination, environment upgrading, and local community improvement. Little has been undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness and consequences of archaeological heritage projects in China from the tourist perspective. This study of the Daming Palace Heritage Site in Xi’an illustrates how archaeological and cultural resources have contributed…
Political campaigns and urban transformation in Maoist China, 1949–1976
China’s pre-reform urban transformation was directed, and accompanied, by a series of radical political campaigns that aimed to achieve Mao’s utopian and revolutionary ideals, as well as pragmatic and economised strategies. The erratic changes in urban planning and policies were also a response to changing domestic and international geo-political conditions. This paper examines the dynamic relations between major radical political campaigns and u…
Small town urbanization in Western China: Villager resettlement and integration in Xi’an
Urban morphology and local citizens in China's historic neighborhoods: A case study of the Stele Forest Neighborhood in Xi'an
Resettlement and adaptation in China's small town urbanization: Evidence from the villagers' perspective
Impact of the top-down quota-oriented farmland preservation planning on the change of urban land-use intensity in China
Displaced villagers’ adaptation in concentrated resettlement community: A case study of Nanjing, China
Determining Diasporic Chinese Identities from a Legal Perspective in China
The Chinese diaspora broadly includes the groups of huaren (华人, ethnic Chinese of different nationalities), huaqiao (华侨, overseas Chinese who are Chinese citizens overseas), guiqiao (归侨, returned overseas Chinese), and qiaojuan (侨眷, relatives in China of overseas Chinese). In the Chinese legal system, the determining of Chinese diasporic status is an important issue in the Chinese diaspora law, as it pertains to the protection of diaspora rights …
World Heritage Site inscription and waterfront heritage conservation: Evidence from the Grand Canal historic districts in Hangzhou, China
This paper explores heritage conservation and tourism development en route to and after World Heritage Site inscription and the roles of local authorities and communities through the case of three heritage sites along the Grand Canal in Hangzhou. It interrogates how the World Heritage Site inscription nomination boosts heritage conservation and assesses how the inscription sustains ongoing heritage conservation and tourism business. The study dis…
Neoliberal planning, master plan adjustment and overbuilding in China: The case of Ordos City
Villagers’ acculturation in China’s land expropriation-induced resettlement neighborhood: A Shanghai case
From upstart city to ‘ghost’ city: Informal housing finance in Ordos, China
This paper applies the perspective of informality to examine the nexus between informal housing finance and housing markets in China. The study explores the causes, formation, influences and consequences of informal housing financing mechanisms in Ordos. It argues that informal housing finance contributes to the local property market boom and becomes an instrument of wealth building through homeownership, but classifies and reinforces social clas…
Territorial Governance, Market Integration and Indigenous Citizens in China’s State-led Eco-tourism: Developing the Xixi National Wetland Park
This paper explores the structural limits of state-led eco-tourism and calls for balancing ecological transformation and socioeconomic sustainability in China’s recent rhetoric of ecological civilization. Through the conceptual lens of political ecology, the paper examines the issues of environmental justice and ecological advancement confronting local communities and the indigenous population in the Xixi National Wetland Park development in Hang…
Neoliberal financial governance and its transformation under real estate boom and bust: The case of Ordos City, China
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