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Weiping Wu Author & Editor

Weiping Wu is a Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She is an internationally known urban scholar working on global urbanization with specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, infrastructure, and land finance of Chinese cities. Her most recent book is the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China.

Piper Gaubatz is Professor of Urban Geography at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her China research over the past 30 years has spanned topics such as the historical development of cities on the Chinese frontiers, urban environmental history, and changing urban form and public space, and has included field research in sixteen different Chinese cities.