With the rapid urbanization process in China, the spatial structure of Beijing has changed enormously, combined with its massive increase of population and the sharp growth of urban development speed and size. As a great historical city and capital of China, Beijing has both problems and opportunities underlying the transformation of its national development mode.

From croplands to landfills, urban systems co-evolve with food systems. Rapidly urbanizing regions must systematically contend with agricultural land loss, increased meat consumption, diet diversification, and shifting patterns of food access and storage. Prof. Karen Seto will join us for a discussion cohosted by Environmental Policy and Planning and the STL Lab on how urbanization science and urban planning can inform debates over food security and sustainability.

Based on his recent book with Cornell University Press, Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung will examine economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing on the region's emerging role in the new global economy. Much of the earlier social science literature on the political economy of industrial transformation has emphasized the role of the developmental state in picking selected domestic firms as “national champions” and in promoting their rapid growth through sectoral industrial policy.

A Century of Campus Development with Urban Growing and Challenges for the Future

RSVP
2/21/2017, Tuesday, 12:30-14:00
STL9-217

During the past 100 years, China's university campuses experienced a special way of evolving together with urban growth. They were deeply influenced by both American and Soviet universities, but due to China's special system of higher education, they developed a variety of morphologies during the so-called leapfrog development period. Now, they begin to face some challenges from city needs, such as tearing down campus walls. Dr. Liu will discuss the phases of morphological evolution and forces behind.