The School will host the 2018 International Conference on China Urban Development this July, and is pleased to announce that the call for papers is now open. Completed applications should be emailed to UrbanChina2018@glasgow.ac.uk by 31 March 2018. All abstracts will be reviewed and confirmation of acceptance will be issued as soon as possible to authors. 

Papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:

 Urbanisation, urban clusters and urban agglomeration
 Suburbanisation, urban-rural relations and integration
 Demographic changes and generation cohort differences
 Migration and migrants, urban labour market and employment
 Economic development, innovation, industrial restructuring and upgrading
 Housing and real estate development
 Financial tools of urban system
 Neighbourhood/community changes and residential patterns
 Neighbourhood design and liveability
 Urban governance, community (shequ) construction and management
 Inequality, social and spatial division/segregation and integration
 Urban social policy and public services provision
 Urban villages, informality, redevelopment and gentrification
 Smart cities, eco-cities, sustainable cities and ‘dream towns’, city marketing
 Urban big data implication and new research methodologies

 

First published: 10 January 2018

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