Richard Hu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hu |
| SIGNATURE | HU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5167-844X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stephen Ramos (1970–2026)
It is with enormous sadness and still with a sense of profound shock that we have to record the death of our esteemed colleague Stephen Ramos, who passed away on 20 January of this year. In the fol
Greenizing the Chinese city
World Expos are both urban realities and urban utopias. In the 175-year history of World Expos, Shanghai Expo 2010 is the only one dedicated to a ‘city’ theme – ‘Better City, Better Life’. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Chinese government orchestrated a ‘city’ Expo in its prime city for considered reasons. The global event provided a golden opportunity to show (off) a global Shanghai and a rising China. It was also an arena …
Mediating Planning Discourses
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city
This article employs an Olympic urbanism perspective on the transformation of Beijing's planning and development.For Beijing, holding the Olympic Games was not just about staging the cityand the nationto the world as commonly understood.It was also about transforming the city through megaprojectificationthe use of megaprojects like the Olympic Games to boost urban growth.The 2008 Summer Olympics played a critical role in growing Beijing in terms …
Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities
Seoul has achieved remarkable development amid South Korea's industrialisation and has transformed itself from a small, underdeveloped city into a global city. More recently, Seoul is pursuing another transformation: embracing the globally appealing narratives of sustainability and co-prosperity. What stands out, in particular, is Seoul's global outreach, sharing its urban development knowledge and experience with cities in developing countries. …
Remaking the border
In the 1960–70s, there was a proposal to expand the administrative border of Canberra into the neighbouring state New South Wales to accommodate long-term population growth and urban development. However, this attempt failed ultimately. This study investigates this ‘remaking’ of the border, and revisits the same issue in the planning and development context of the twenty-first century. It employs three conceptual constructs – ‘bordering’, ‘debord…
Reinventing community in Covid-19
Australia’s national urban policy
The Australian Government's attempts at national urban policy have been sporadic and inconsistent, under the constraints of constitutional, financial, ideological and political factors. This paper concerns the recent resurgence of national urban policy under the rubric of “smart cities” adopted by the Turnbull Government and carried on by the incumbent Morrison Government. It investigates how this round of smart cities agenda articulates with Aus…
Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
Designing the Global City
Concentration and Mobility of Knowledge Workers
This study investigates the knowledge capacity and the competitive relationship between cities in contemporary globalization. Drawing upon the global city thesis regarding advanced producer services and the city network model, this study measures the concentration and mobility of knowledge workers between three Australian global cities: Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. It argues that knowledge workers are important agents in the making of urban k…
Knowing the past for a better future
Canberra's competitiveness in the national context
Canberra occupies a unique position in the Australian urban landscape. It is the national capital and the largest inland city. Internationally and at home, it is also known as a planned city. This study moves beyond the entrenched perception of Canberra as a planned capital city. It situates Canberra in the Australian urban system through the lens of a new model of urban competitiveness that incorporates dimensions of productivity, sustainability…
Politics of détente
Why have relations across the Taiwan Strait and the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula undergone different processes of détente and reversal? We apply the perspective of two-level games to understand the divergent experiences of these two cases of contested sovereignty and regime rivalry. In particular, we call attention to the alignment and misalignment of domestic and international of interests and influences in our analysis, and the dampeni…
Measuring tourism as the economic driver of Australian sea change communities
The sea change phenomenon -- the population movement from metropolitan areas or inland regional centers to coastal regions -- has attracted increasing attention from academics and policy-makers in Australia. In this paper, we move from a demographic perspective to an integrative perspective to approach Australian sea change communities. We construct a new typology of the sea change communities, which reflects both population change and economic c…
Measuring tourism as the economic driver of Australian sea change communities
The sea change phenomenon -- the population movement from metropolitan areas or inland regional centers to coastal regions -- has attracted increasing attention from academics and policy-makers in Australia. In this paper, we move from a demographic perspective to an integrative perspective to approach Australian sea change communities. We construct a new typology of the sea change communities, which reflects both population change and economic c…
Canberra's competitiveness in the national context
Canberra occupies a unique position in the Australian urban landscape. It is the national capital and the largest inland city. Internationally and at home, it is also known as a planned city. This study moves beyond the entrenched perception of Canberra as a planned capital city. It situates Canberra in the Australian urban system through the lens of a new model of urban competitiveness that incorporates dimensions of productivity, sustainability…
Politics of détente
Why have relations across the Taiwan Strait and the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula undergone different processes of détente and reversal? We apply the perspective of two-level games to understand the divergent experiences of these two cases of contested sovereignty and regime rivalry. In particular, we call attention to the alignment and misalignment of domestic and international of interests and influences in our analysis, and the dampeni…
Measuring tourism as the economic driver of Australian sea change communities
The sea change phenomenon -- the population movement from metropolitan areas or inland regional centers to coastal regions -- has attracted increasing attention from academics and policy-makers in Australia. In this paper, we move from a demographic perspective to an integrative perspective to approach Australian sea change communities. We construct a new typology of the sea change communities, which reflects both population change and economic c…
Knowing the past for a better future
Canberra's competitiveness in the national context
Canberra occupies a unique position in the Australian urban landscape. It is the national capital and the largest inland city. Internationally and at home, it is also known as a planned city. This study moves beyond the entrenched perception of Canberra as a planned capital city. It situates Canberra in the Australian urban system through the lens of a new model of urban competitiveness that incorporates dimensions of productivity, sustainability…
Concentration and Mobility of Knowledge Workers
This study investigates the knowledge capacity and the competitive relationship between cities in contemporary globalization. Drawing upon the global city thesis regarding advanced producer services and the city network model, this study measures the concentration and mobility of knowledge workers between three Australian global cities: Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. It argues that knowledge workers are important agents in the making of urban k…
Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
Designing the Global City
Reinventing community in Covid-19
Australia’s national urban policy
The Australian Government's attempts at national urban policy have been sporadic and inconsistent, under the constraints of constitutional, financial, ideological and political factors. This paper concerns the recent resurgence of national urban policy under the rubric of “smart cities” adopted by the Turnbull Government and carried on by the incumbent Morrison Government. It investigates how this round of smart cities agenda articulates with Aus…
Remaking the border
In the 1960–70s, there was a proposal to expand the administrative border of Canberra into the neighbouring state New South Wales to accommodate long-term population growth and urban development. However, this attempt failed ultimately. This study investigates this ‘remaking’ of the border, and revisits the same issue in the planning and development context of the twenty-first century. It employs three conceptual constructs – ‘bordering’, ‘debord…
Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities
Seoul has achieved remarkable development amid South Korea's industrialisation and has transformed itself from a small, underdeveloped city into a global city. More recently, Seoul is pursuing another transformation: embracing the globally appealing narratives of sustainability and co-prosperity. What stands out, in particular, is Seoul's global outreach, sharing its urban development knowledge and experience with cities in developing countries. …
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city
This article employs an Olympic urbanism perspective on the transformation of Beijing's planning and development.For Beijing, holding the Olympic Games was not just about staging the cityand the nationto the world as commonly understood.It was also about transforming the city through megaprojectificationthe use of megaprojects like the Olympic Games to boost urban growth.The 2008 Summer Olympics played a critical role in growing Beijing in terms …
Greenizing the Chinese city
World Expos are both urban realities and urban utopias. In the 175-year history of World Expos, Shanghai Expo 2010 is the only one dedicated to a ‘city’ theme – ‘Better City, Better Life’. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Chinese government orchestrated a ‘city’ Expo in its prime city for considered reasons. The global event provided a golden opportunity to show (off) a global Shanghai and a rising China. It was also an arena …
Mediating Planning Discourses
Stephen Ramos (1970–2026)
It is with enormous sadness and still with a sense of profound shock that we have to record the death of our esteemed colleague Stephen Ramos, who passed away on 20 January of this year. In the fol
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