2018 UCRN URBAN CHINA RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE WUHAN UNIVERSITY 武汉大学June 23rd-25th, 2018 2018 UCRN URBAN CHINA RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE SUPPORTED BY School of Urban Design, Wuhan University The Urban China Research Network State University of New York at Albany Urban Studies Journal Wuhan Planning and Design Institute CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEES CONFERENCE CHAIR: Zhigang Li Professor, Wuhan University Dean, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University VICE CONFERENCE CHAIR: Zai Liang Professor, State University of New York at Albany Co-Director, The Urban China Research Network MEMBERS: Youqin Huang Professor, State University of New York at Albany Sainan Lin Associate Professor, Wuhan University Cheng Chen Associate Professor, State University of New York at Albany School of Urban Design Wuhan University 2018 Urban China Research Network Conference Urban China Studies in A New Era Conference Program Wuhan University, Wuhan, China June 23rd –25th, 2018 Warm Tips IMPORTANT TIMES CONFERENCE DATES: June 23rd-25th, 2018 10:00-21:00 June 22nd, 2018 Register at the lobby of JUNYI Dynasty Hotel / LUOJIA REGISTRATION TIME: SHANZHUANG Hotel (LJSZ Hotel) 08:15-08:45 June 23rd, 2018 Register at the lobby of LJSZ Hotel IMPORTANT VENUES VENUE TIME ACTIVITY CONTACT 1. Registration JUNYI Dynasty Hotel June 22nd-25th Tel: 027-87687777 2. Accommodation 1. Registration 2. Accommodation 3. Lunch / Dinner 4. Parallel Session nd th 5. Doctoral Student Panel LJSZ Hotel June 22 -25 Tel: 027-68752935 6. Urban Studies Publication Workshop 7. Small Grant and Big Career Session 8. Banquet and Conference Award Ceremony Renwen 1. Opening Ceremony Sainan Lin: Building,Wuhan June 23rd 2. Plenary Session +86 18815042265 University (WHU) WEATHER FORECAST Fri 22nd Sat 23rd Sun 24th Mon 25th 31° 31° 31° 33° 20° 23° 25° 26° 2018 UCRN URBAN CHINA RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE CONTENT INTRODUCTION OF PLENARY SESSION 01 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 04 CONFERENCE PROGRAM 06 Opening Ceremony 06 Plenary Session Schedule 06 Parallel Session Schedule 07 Doctoral Student Panel Schedule 27 Urban Studies Publication Workshop 30 Small Grant and Big Career Session Schedule 30 FIELD TRIP SCHEDULE 31 TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION 33 2018 URBAN CHINA INTRODUCTION OF PLENARY SESSION RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE Introduction of Plenary Session Urbanization and Children in China Zai Liang Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany and Co-Director of The Urban China Research Network Zai Liang received Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and conducted post-doctoral research at Brown University. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany and Changjiang Scholar Visiting Chair Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is the former chair of Asia and Asian American section of the American Sociological Association. Since 2004, he has been serving as Director and Co-Director of The Urban China Research Network. His main research interests are migration/immigration, urbanization and urban sociology. He pursues these interests in the contexts of the United States, China and Africa. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and China Social Science and Philosophy Foundation among others. Abstract China has experienced a fast-paced urbanization during the past three decades. Today more than 50% of Chinese population lives in urban places. Compared to other developing countries, China’s urbanization is not driven by high fertility of urban residents but rather by large volumes of internal migrants, now estimated to be as many as 200 million. Looking forward, some of these migrants may choose to stay in urban areas and others may decide to leave after working in cities for a few years. We examine the extent to which children affect migrants’ intention for long term settlement and their plan to change hukou status to local urban household registration. Our findings show that children have a significant impact on migrant parents’ intention for long term settlement as well hukou (household registration) conversion in the destinations. In addition, we find rural-urban hukou disparity persists in new ways. We also discuss policy implications of these findings. 01 新时代中国城市研究 Urban China Studies in A New Era June 23rd – 25th, 2018 Wuhan University, Wuhan The Role of Informality in Chinese Smart City Strategies Alan Smart Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary His research has focused on urban issues, housing, foreign investment, social change, food safety, zoonotic diseases, and agriculture in Hong Kong, China, and Canada. He is author of "Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992) “Petty capitalists and globalization” (co-edited with Josephine Smart, SUNY Press, 2005), “The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, fires and colonial rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963” (Hong Kong University Press, 2006), “Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights (co-authored with Josephine Smart U Toronto Press, 2017) and numerous articles in journals and edited volumes. Abstract This paper raises questions about the ways in which the “smartness” of smart cities is usually conceived. Smart city (SC) proponents usually beg the question of what makes a city smart, and in doing so neglect forms of intelligence that do not involve sophisticated technology controlled by technical and corporate elites. Smart city strategies generally either ignore or treat urban informality (including informal settlements, street markets, scavenging, etc.) as a barrier or an obstacle to their projects. Ignoring informality is common in cities of the global North, while seeing it as an obstacle is particularly common in the global South. This paper argues that attempts to displace or erase informality may reduce the intelligence of cities, given that informal practices are often solutions to the problems faced by the urban poor in cities dominated by politics that favour the elite. If these solutions are impeded or displaced, and the smart city technologies do not focus on the livelihood needs of those who past coping practices have been disrupted, the result will be cities that are less smart in practical and inclusive terms. Preliminary research suggests that informality is conceived of in Chinese official plans and projects in ways similar to cities of the global North. Going beyond the explicit content of the plans, there are many collateral data-intensive projects, such as the social credit system and facial recognition, that seem to be rapidly restricting the space for informal economic activities and other informal practices. 02 2018 URBAN CHINA INTRODUCTION OF PLENARY SESSION RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE Housing Privatization and the Return of the State: Changing Governance in China Fulong Wu Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London His research interests include urban development in China and its social and sustainable challenges. He has recently published a book, Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China (2015, Routledge). He is ranked 11th amongst the top 50 Geographers in the age-weighted H-index SCI/SSCI. He was ranked the second in the 50 most productive authors in Geography and Urban Studies, and in terms of citation ranked “6th in Geography and garnered more citations than any other in Urban Studies”. He is among 40 ‘Key Thinkers on Cities’ (Koch and Latham, 2017, SAGE publishing). His total citations are 14,419 in Google Scholar with an h-index of 67 and an i10 index (the number of publications with at least 10 citations) of 153. To date, he has secured funding for 32 research projects, totalling £2,310,000, as PI. Abstract Housing privatization seems to suggest a process of state retreat. However, this is not always the case in China. This paper examines an estate that is mixed with work-unit housing and municipal public housing to understand its changing governance. It is intriguing to observe that the state has had to return to this neighbourhood to strengthen its administration following housing privatization, because the attempt to transfer responsibility to commercial property management failed. The neighbourhood governance, however, has transformed from one based on work- units to a government-funded administrative agency. The return of the state has been achieved through professional social workers, and it is struggling to operate, leading to the alienation and disempowerment of former state work-unit residents. The side effect of this approach to governance is that, through encouraging market provision and commercial operation which is not fully working, reciprocal activities are restrained. Since housing privatization, the neighbourhood has deteriorated from a brand-new estate into an ‘old and dilapidated neighbourhood’ in less than 25 years. 03 新时代中国城市研究 Urban China Studies in A New Era June 23rd – 25th, 2018 Wuhan University, Wuhan Conference Schedule TIME ACTIVITY VENUE nd June 22 , 2018 (Friday) Lobby, JUNYI Dynasty Hotel 10:00-21:00 Registration Lobby, LJSZ Hotel June 23rd, 2018 (Saturday) 08:15-08:45 Registration Lobby, LJSZ Hotel 09:00-09:30 Opening Ceremony Main Conference Hall, Renwen Building, WHU 09:30-10:00 Photo Taking 10:00-12:00 Plenary Session Main Conference Hall, Renwen Building, WHU 12:30-14:00 Lunch (mentor lunch) 2nd Floor, JUXIAN Dinning Hall, LJSZ Hotel Session A1 Conference Room No.1, LJSZ Hotel Session B1 Conference Room No.2, LJSZ Hotel 14:00-15:40 Session C1