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Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

eISSN: 27541223 | ISSN: 27541223 | Current volume: 3 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly
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.
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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