Zhumin Xu

Zhumin Xu is currently an early career researcher at LATTS. Before moving to Paris, Xu held a fellowship in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include housing requisition involving public participation, inner-city redevelopment and local governance, public housing, and mega-projects under globalization. Xu holds a PhD degree in Urban Studies from University of New Orleans, a Masters degree from Michigan State University and a Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University. Her dissertation topic focused on urban governance and community participation in residential relocations and housing requisition in globalizing Shanghai.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles
Xu, Zhumin and GCS Lin (2019) Participatory Urban Redevelopment in Chinese Cities amidst Accelerated Urbanization: Symbolic Urban Governance in Globalizing Shanghai. Journal of Urban Affairs. 41, 6: 756-775. DOI: 10.1080 / 07352166.2018.1536420.

Lin, GCS and Zhumin Xu (2019) Remaking China’s urban space of the spectacle: Mega-events, temporary growth, and uneven spatial transformation in Shanghai. Geoforum, 102, 126-136. DOI: 10.1016 / j.geoforum.2019.03.013 .

Xu, Zhumin (2015) Citizen Participation in Housing Requisition in Shanghai. China City Planning Review 24 (4): 65-71.

Working Paper
Xu, Zhumin (2021) Participation des citoyens au réaménagement urbain de Shanghai, LATTS Working Paper, n ° 21-19, March 2021. “Translation campaign” project.
https://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03155727

Book Chapters
Xu, Zhumin (forthcoming) Citizen Participation in Shanghai’s Urban Redevelopment under State-led Neoliberal Urbanism. In the book Urbanization in the Global South: Challenges and perspectives. (Routledge, 2022).

Chen, Jie and Zhumin Xu (2017) Changing Urban Governance of Urban Redevelopment in Shanghai in the book Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development. United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat).

Book Review
Xu, Zhumin (2021) Book Review, China: The Bubble That Never Pops, by Thomas Orlik, Oxford University Press. Eurasian Geography and Economics (EGE). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2021.1878923?journalCode=rege20.

Xu, Zhumin (2019) Book Review, Macau and the Casino Complex (Gambling Studies Series) by Stefan Al. University of Nevada Press. Journal of Historical Geography. 10.1016 / j.jhg.2019.04.007.

Xu, Zhumin (2013) Book Review, Building Globalizations: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. University of Chicago Press by Xuefei Ren. Global Built Environment Review, Vol 8 Issue 3.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Affairs Since July 2021.
Committee Member on the International Committee, Urban Affairs Association 2017-2019.

1. China’s urban redevelopment reinvented with public participation
2. Right to the city and housing affordability under financialization
3. The ‘urban revolution’ and urban political economy in Hong Kong