Jun 10, 2025
Paper Recommendation | Zhi Liu, Yunhe Li: Research on Housing Market Operatio...
Affordable housing policies serve as the core measure for China to address housing hardships among low-income households and constitute a vital component of urban housing system reform. Nevertheless, alongside the continuous advancement of urbanization, housing issues have taken on new complexities, especially in megacities and super-large cities: the affordability of commodity housing markets keeps ...
May 13, 2025
Paper Recommendation | Zhi Liu, Wenjing Li: Impacts of China’s Housing Purch...
Authors: Zhi Liu, Wenjing LiOriginal article: Effects of housing purchase restriction on market behavior in China, published in Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, May 2025.Following the market-oriented housing reform launched in 1998, China’s urban housing market expanded rapidly and urban residents’ living conditions were greatly improved, yet housing prices also surged substantially. ...
Nov 29, 2024
Preview | Should Urban Planning Take Urban Emotions Into Account
Editorial NoteTo promptly disseminate outstanding academic research by scholars, this journal will periodically publish unreleased papers for readers’ reference. Should Urban Planning Take Urban Emotions Into Account has been accepted for Issue 6, 2024, and is released in advance. All readers are welcome to leave comments for corrections and discussions.Urban planning must start from urban residents’...
Nov 22, 2024
Journal Extract | Exploring Ethical Issues in Urban Planning from an Epistemo...
AbstractFrom an epistemological perspective, this paper explores ethical dilemmas embedded in China’s urban planning practices, especially smart city planning. Urban planning is inherently oriented toward goodness, yet planners frequently face unavoidable trade-offs that may harm the interests of certain individuals or groups during implementation. Therefore, planners ought to abide by ethical principles ...
Sep 11, 2024
Paper Recommendation: Country-Specific Research Report on Land Courts
Authors: Research Group led by Professor Huang Hui, Peking University School of Transnational LawAbstractAs China’s economic development shifts from a phase of high-speed growth to high-quality development, urban regeneration has become an imperative undertaking. Nevertheless, numerous land property right disputes arising in practice frequently stall urban regeneration projects. This is merely a typical ...