Professor Fulong Wu
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. His research interests include urban development in China and its social and sustainable challenges. He is the author of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China (Routledge, 2015), Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Change (UCL Press, 2022, free downloadable from UCL Press), and co-editor (with Roger Keil) of After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century (Toronto University Press, 2022).
He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant – Rethinking China’s Model of Governance. He received BSc and MSc from Nanjing University, and PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He has taught previously in Southampton and Cardiff University. In 2016, he was conferred the award of Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences in the UK.
Bartlett Professor of Planning is a position previously held by Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Sir William Holford, Lord Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Sir Peter Hall and, most recently, Mike Batty FRS. Professor Wu’s prestigious appointment since 2011 presents the opportunity for the Bartlett School of Planning to redefine the planning discipline in global terms for a new generation.
吴缚龙博士是伦敦大学学院巴特利特规划讲座教授。他获得南京大学学士、硕士学位和香港大学博士学位。自20世纪90年代中以来曾先后任教于英国南安普敦大学和卡迪夫大学，于2016年获得英国社会科学院院士。据社会科学论文索引（SSCI）排名为全球前50名的地理学，英国国家经济社会基金会（ESRC）2013卓越国际影响力奖获得者，被誉为中国城市研究的世界级权威。他的研究兴趣包括中国城市发展及其社会和可持续挑战。他著有《为了增长而规划：中国的城市和区域规划》(2015)、《创造中国城市主义：城市革命和治理变革》(2022，下载：UCL出版社)、与Roger Keil合编《郊区化之后：21世纪的城市化》(2022)。他目前负责欧洲研究理事会(ERC)的高级研究计划项目：重新思考中国的治理模式。
巴特利特规划讲座教授历任为Patrick Abercrombie 爵士（主持“大伦敦规划”）、William Holford 爵士（1947 年英国城乡规划法起草者、堪培拉的规划者）、Richard Llewelyn-Davies 勋爵（英国新城米尔顿凯恩斯的设计者）、Peter Hall（彼得·霍尔）爵士、和Mike Batty教授（英国皇家科学院院士）。自2011年起的重要任命给巴特雷规划学院带来在全球意义下重新定义新一代规划的机遇，标志着中国城市和规划研究在世界主流学界确立地位。
Professor Fangzhu Zhang
Fangzhu Zhang is Professor in China Planning and joint coordinator for China Planning Research Group (CPRG) at Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her main research interests focus on innovation and governance; urban village redevelopment and migrant integration in China; and eco-innovation and eco-city development in China. She has been involved in several research projects funded by the EU innovation programme (on Finance access); ESRC/DFID (on Chinese urban villages); the British Academy (China’s innovation and governance; Chinese informal settlements; China’s eco-city planning); RTPI (on China planning); the Leverhulme Trust (Urban China Research International Network) and ESRC-NSFC (Urban development financialisation). Currently, she is working on the ERC Advanced Grant research project, rethinking China’s Model of Urban Governance (ChinaUrban, 2020-2025).
She has published articles widely in leading international journals. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal entitled “Transactions in Planning and Urban Research” (TPUR), published by SAGE. The journal provides the platform to enhance the greater impacts of urban China studies for a global community. She is a guest editor for several special issues, such as “Planning the Chinese City” (Town Planning Review, 2008); “New Direction for Urban China Studies” (Urban Studies, 2020); “Financialised urban development: Chinese and (South-)East Asian observations” (Land Use Policy, 2021); “Metropolitan development and city-regional governance in China” (Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 2023); and “Women-led Research in Urban China Studies” (TPUR, 2024). She is also co-editor of the book “Rural Migrants in Urban China” (Routledge, 2013) and “Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance (Edward Elgar, 2023). To date (2024), she has successfully supervised ten PhD students and is currently supervising ten PhD research projects on urban China planning.
They jointly coordinate China Planning Research Group (CPRG). CPRG is based at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. It is an important research cluster at the department which generates significant influences in and beyond UCL. Please see the departmental introduction to CPRG here.