Mr Yong Zhang

Affiliations:

Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development

Overview

My research explores the transformation of local governance associated with urban spatial development strategies in China's shift towards people-oriented urbanisation. Through a reworked theoretical scaffold of urban entrepreneurialism (and entrepreneurial city), I shall examine the Public and Private Partnership (PPP) and rural collective economic organisation shareholding reform towards an 'urban-cum-rural coordinated' development. With an analytical focus on a small city in hinterland China, the research will also benefit the understanding of emerging 'ordinary' urbanism in the off-the-map global south.

External positions

Research Assistant at Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong

1 Sep 2016 → 31 Aug 2017

Areas of expertise

GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography

Education / academic qualifications

2016 - Master of Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Beijing University (Peking University) (2013 - 2016)
2013 - Bachelor of Science, Geography, Sun Yat-sen University (2009 - 2013)

Related information

A Small Entrepreneurial City in Action: Policy Mobility, Urban Entrepreneurialism, and Politics of Scale in Jiyuan, China

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

New Perspective on Regional Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Guangdong, China