Speakers | Weiping Wu
Weiping Wu is a Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program at Columbia University in New York City. She also is on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Columbia Population Research Center. Her research and teaching have focused on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. She is the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), and a former editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, ACSP’s flagship journal. Among her publications are books The Sage Handbook on Contemporary China (2018), The Chinese City (2012), Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World (2000), Pioneering Economic Reform in China’s Special Economic Zones (1999), and The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities (1997).
In Urban China Forum 2019, Professor Weiping Wu will share her recent research “ Paying for Urbanization: Land Finance and Impacts”.
For more information about Professor Weiping Wu, visit her personal page at Columbia University.
