China Program International Fellows, 2009–2010

The China Program awards research fellowships to international faculty and researchers who are working on land and tax policy issues in the People's Republic of China. These fellows undertake research and participate in conferences and other activities sponsored by the Lincoln Institute.

  • Siqi Zheng
  • Institute of Real Estate Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing
  • Rui Wang
  • School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Matthew E. Kahn
  • Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles
  • The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development in China
    Using urban household survey data, this project will rank China's major cities with respect to their household level carbon dioxide production, which, in addition to providing new estimates of how cities differ on this key sustainability criteria, will also enhance our understanding of why Chinese cities differ based on this metric. The results will be useful for helping to predict how ongoing urbanization trends are likely to affect China's overall per-capita greenhouse gas production.
  • Jiawen Yang
  • City and Regional Planning Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Qing Shen
  • School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Jinzhen Shen
  • Beijing Planning Commission, Beijing
  • Spatial Structure and Transportation in China's Megacities
    This project seeks to analyze what urban spatial structure should be encouraged in megacities in China to obtain the most desirable transportation benefits. Using two population censuses, two work unit censuses, and two household surveys in Beijing, the project will construct measures of travel demand and metropolitan spatial patterns, assess the trends of urban expansion and transformation, examine the travel impacts of existing spatial development, and recommend policy and planning actions to channel metropolitan spatial development into a desirable direction for urban transportation.
  • George C.S. Lin
  • Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong
  • Land Development, Municipal Finance, and Urban Expansion in Globalizing China: A Study of the Guangzhou Metropolis
    This project uses Guangzhou as case study in an attempt to 1) identify the extent and structural composition of urban land expansion since the 1990s focusing on the urban-rural interface; 2) investigate the origins of China's city-centered land development; and 3) evaluate the consequences of city-centered land development upon economic growth and spatial inequality. This study will utilize data gathered from Chinese land management authorities, a computerized processing of Landsat images at two different points in time, and financial information on land conveyance fees, municipal budgetary and extrabudgetary revenues and expenditures.