Research Projects
Supported by various research projects, including SPPR, GRF, NSFC, CCFS, the research team has accomplished a number of studies on urban (re)development, urban poverty, low-income housing, complex self-organising urban systems, spontaneous social order, and gated communities.
Projects
Promoting Hong Kong Residents’ Cross-border Healthcare Utilization and Cross-border Mobility in the Greater Bay Area: Recent Priorities and Long-term Policy Framework - Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, Hong Kong SAR Government, 2022-2025
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Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Conservation and Revitalisation in Hing Chun Yeuk Seven Villages, Kuk Po and Fung Hang, Hong Kong, Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme – Research Activities on Countryside Conservation and Revitalisation, Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong SAR Government, PI, 09/2021-08/2022
The Rise of Education-featured Gated Communities in Chinese Cities: FormationMechanism and Implications on Housing Differentiation, The Case of Guangzhou (Ref: 17614720), University Grants Committee of HongKong, General Research Fund (GRF), 01/2021-12/2023.
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Multi-dimensional Housing Inequalitiesunder Financialisation in Pandemic-stricken Chinese and European Megacities, University Research Committee, The University of Hong Kong,01/2021-12/2023.
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Equalisation of and Accessibility to BasicPublic Services in Developed Regions in China: Theorisation and Practices, National Social Science Foundation of China, Major ResearchProject, 04/2020 - 04/2022.
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The Mechanism of Low-income HousingDevelopment and Its Integrative Effects in Urban China, National Science Foundation of China, General Program (Ref:41871165), 01/2019 -12/2022.
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Uneven Distribution of High-qualityHealthcare Resources in Chinese Cities and Its Socio-spatial Implications, National Science Foundation of China, General Program (Ref:41671153), 01/2017 -12/2020.
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Chinese Investment in BangladeshInfrastructure Projects, commissioned by Chinese Academy of Sciences, 01/2020 -12/2020.
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A Pilot Study on Green Development in Nepal, commissioned by Centre for International Knowledge on development, Development Research Centre of the State Council of the People'sRepublic China, 05/2019 - 05/2020.
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Small Property Right Housing Development in China, University Research Committee, The University of Hong Kong, 06/2016 - 06/2019.
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Low-end Housing Provision under financialisation and Its Socio-spatial Implications in Urban China, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016 China ProgramInternational Fellowship, 02/2016 - 02/2017.
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Urban Socio-Spatial Restructuring in China, National Science Foundation of China, Excellent YoungScientist Fund (Ref: 41322003),01/2014 -12/2016.
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A Political Economy Analysis of China'sUrban Redevelopment and Its Socio-spatial Outcomes, National Science Foundation of China, General Program(Ref:41271180), 01/2013 -12/2016.
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Socio-spatial Restructuring under the 'Three Old' Redevelopment Policy in Pearl River Delta, the State Key Laboratory of Sub-tropical Building Sciences, China, 12/2011-12/2013.
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Urban Redevelopment and Socio-spatial Restructuring from the Analytical Perspective of Urban Regime Theory, the Ministry of Education, China, 01/2011-12/2012.
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Two Waves of Gentrification and ItsSocio-spatial Consequences in Guangzhou, the Ministry of Education, China, 01/2011-12/2012
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Gentrification in Large Chinese Citiesunder Market Transition, A Case Study of Guangzhou, National Science Foundation of China, Young Scholars Program(Ref: 40801061), 01/2009 -12/2011.