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SUMMARY:Planning for sustainable urbanisation in China: a community perspe
 ctive - Professor Cecilia Wong\, Manchester Urban Institute\, University o
 f Manchester.
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CONTACT:Ingrid Cizaite
DESCRIPTION:The introduction of the ‘National New-type Urbanisation Plan
 ’ by the Chinese government in March 2014 signified a shift in its urban
  development strategy towards a more human-centred and environmentally sus
 tainable pathway. In order to accommodate rapid urban growth\, the concept
  of a ‘new’ type of urbanisation was introduced to advocate a human-ce
 ntred development strategy by integrating ‘ecological civilisation’ in
 to the urbanisation process. Such planning for eco-urbanisation has to be 
 underpinned by a thorough understanding of the relationships between the b
 ehaviour of urban residents\, resource consumption\, policy control measur
 es and environmental change in communities who are subject to most urbanis
 ation pressure. By adopting a multi-stage\, spatial cluster sampling metho
 d\, a sample of 2\,310 participants from 21 neighbourhoods of 8 townships 
 in the Beijing Metropolitan Region was surveyed in May 2017. The seminar w
 ill present some of the survey findings from a three-year research study f
 unded by the ESRC-NSFC Newton Fund. The analysis highlights the different 
 spatial patterns of residents’ behaviour and attitude towards different 
 aspects of sustainable development and their own well-being. \n\nCecilia W
 ong is Professor of Spatial Planning\, Fellow of the Royal Town Planning I
 nstitute and Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. She is co-editor
  of Town Planning Review. She has research expertise on strategic spatial 
 planning\, policy monitoring and analysis\, urban and regional development
 \, and housing and infrastructure planning. She is currently carrying out 
 a three year research project with the Chinese Academy of Sciences\, funde
 d by the Economic and Social Research Council and the China Natural Scienc
 e Foundation\, on ‘Eco-Urbanisation: promoting sustainable development i
 n metropolitan regions of China’.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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