SIEW lab has been formally launched Faculty of Arch HKU Hamse Dupad. It brings together multi-disciplinary researchers across the globe to probe growth and inequality issues of social infrastructure – housing, healthcare, and education – to improve opportunity, equity and wellbeing.

Our very own team Shenjing He & Chris Webster Faculty of Arch HKU, Linwei Tian HKU Public Health, cairong, Lirong Hu, Chenxi LI, Lu Shan, Xiang Yan, Chenxin Wan, Kun Wang (CUHK), Dunxu WU, Di Zeng and Jin Zhu

Also we cannot miss Fulong Wu The Bartlett School of Planning. It's really exciting to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers from Europe, US, Australia, Japan, Mainland China and Hong Kong.

And Fulong Wu

Great to see a new special issue of Space and Polity on 'Paddison Geographies', to mark the contribution of Ronan Paddison to urban studies, Urban Studies Foundation, the Drumlin student magazine & beyond. tandfonline.com/action/showAxa…

Welcome to join the inaugural SIEW lab research seminar via Zoom.

Our inaugural lab meeting was indeed successful. Thanks to all the participants and our board members - especially those overseas-Hal Pawson and @Bingqin_Li (AU), Fulong Wu (UK), Manuel Aalbers (EU) and Junyi Zhang (JP). Look forward to having more international collaborations

Post-doc fellow opportunity at the University of Hong Kong jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5019…

Many congratulations to Dr Cai Rong, very well done! cairong

Lab seminar!! Housing financialization by Prof Manuel Aalbers from KULeuven on 26 Nov. Prof Fulong Wu will also discuss the housing financialization issue from the China perspective. Welcome to join us!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟎 Speaker: Prof. John LOGAN Zoom Meeting ID: 960 0292 9353 Password: geogdupad

New in The Geographical Journal: 'The rise of education‐featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state‐capital nexus' by Shenjing He (The University of Hong Kong). orlo.uk/153Tc

The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have undergone significant transformation in recent years. Learn more: bit.ly/34XLQLg #Business #DevelopmentStudies #urbanStudies #UrbanPlanning #Finance #Economics Shenjing He

Glad to share a new paper from SIEW lab director Shenjing He and Junxi Qian on Antipode:Police and Politics in Aesthetics-Based Urban Governance: Redevelopment and Grassroots Struggles in Enninglu, Guangzhou, China. doi.org/10.1111/anti.1…

Looking forward to visiting #HongKong 🇭🇰 & The University of Hong Kong later this month not least to do this in the Faculty of Architecture and HKU Department of Urban Planning and Design on the global urban imagination of city networks. Pop by if you’re about. arch.hku.hk/event_/global-…

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Area Development & Policy Best Paper Award goes to @DianaMitlin for her #openaccess paper 'The contribution of reform coalitions to inclusion and equity: lessons from urban social movements.’ doi.org/10.1080/237929…

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Area Development and Policy Best Referee Award has been awarded to Nicholas Phelps, Nicholas A. Phelps regionalstudies.org/news/2024-area…

why twitter is banned anyway??