Urban Specialist and China Scholar

Book Chapters

"Migration and Housing: Comparing China with the United States," Weiping Wu and Emily Rosenbaum in John Logan and Susan Fainstein, eds., Urban China in Transition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008, p. 250-267.

"Building Research Universities for Knowledge Transfer: The Case of China," in Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima, eds. How Universities Promote Economic Growth. World Bank Directions in Development Series, Washington, DC: the World Bank, 2007, p.185-197.

"Shanghai - The Evolution of China's Future Global City," in Klaus Segbers, ed., The Making of Global Cities: Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, São Paulo, and Shanghai. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, p. 113-134.

"Urban Infrastructure and Financing in China," in Yan Song and Chengri Ding, eds. Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007, p. 251-269.

“Migrant Residential Distribution and Metropolitan Spatial Development in Shanghai,” in Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu, eds. Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space. Routledge, 2005, p. 222-242.

"Shanghai: Remaking China’s Future Global City," Weiping Wu and Shahid Yusuf in Josef Gugler, ed. World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 27-58.

"Temporary Migrants in Shanghai, China: Housing Choices and Patterns," in Saskia Sassen and Peter Marcotullio, eds. Human Resource System Challenge VII: Human Settlement Development, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers, 2003.

"Rejuvenating Shanghai’s Cosmopolitan Culture: Municipal Strategies and the Transformation of the Built Environment," in Won Bae Kim and Jae Yoon Yoo, eds. Culture, Economy and Place: The Asia-Pacific Perspectives. Seoul: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Research Report 2002-15, p. 219-245.

"Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement Patterns," in John R. Logan, ed. The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, p. 212-226.

"Rejuvenating a Cosmopolitan Culture: Globalization and Shanghai’s Cultural Industries," in Won Bae Kim, ed. The Culture and Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia. Seoul: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Research Report 2001-60, p. 89-109.

"Shanghai," in GEOSPACE Austria in cooperation with the European Space Agency, ed. Mega Cities Atlas. Vienna, Austria: GEOSPACE, 2001, p.174-179.

"Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World: 21st Century Catalysts for Development," Shahid Yusuf, Simon Evenett and Weiping Wu in Shahid Yusuf, Weiping Wu and Simon Evenett, eds. Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World. New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 2000, p. 2-8.

Core team member for the World Bank’s World Development Report 1999/2000: Entering the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1999. Contribution mainly to Chapter 7 "Making Cities Livable."

"The Case of China," in Üner Kirdar, ed. Cities Fit for People. New York: United Nations, 1997.

"Economic Competition and Resource Mobilization," in Michael A. Cohen, Blair A. Ruble, Joseph S. Tulchin, and Allison M. Garland, eds. Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, p. 123-154.

Book Reviews

"Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam." By Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, editors. Journal of the American Planning Association (Summer 2001).

"Controlling Development: Certainty and Discretion in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong." By Philip Booth. Journal of Planning Education and Research (1998).

"The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones." By George T. Crane. Journal of the American Planning Association (1993).