Ying Wang
School of Geography and Planning
Research Associate
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School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I am a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the School of Geography and Planning, the University of Sheffield. I obtained both my BEng in Urban Planning and MSc in Urban and Rural Planning from Nanjing University and completed my PhD in Geography at the University of Southampton. I joined Sheffield in 2025 and am working on the ESRC funded URBAN RETROFIT project. I look at how to scale up place-based adaptations to the built environment through the planning and development systems to address 'wicked' urban problems and achieve more just and sustainable futures. I am committed to an interdisciplinary approach to planning research, drawing on theoretical insights and methodological tools from geography, sociology and political science.
- Research interests
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I am advancing two main research directions. The first investigates green transitions in urban environments, aiming to evaluate how urban planning and spatial interventions can enhance environmental sustainability and social justice. The second examines urban restructuring in the post-growth era, with a focus on grassroots, bottom-up initiatives such as community-led regeneration, informal economies, and collective property management.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: new trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China. Urban Studies, 62(15), 3092-3109. View this article in WRRO
- Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China. Journal of Chinese Governance, 10(3), 394-418. View this article in WRRO
- Mobilising the entrepreneurial self to manage the crisis: community group‐buying during the Shanghai lockdown. Antipode, 57(3), 1148-1171. View this article in WRRO
- State building in crisis management: reflections on statecraft from the Shanghai lockdown. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(1), 126-141. View this article in WRRO
- Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing. Urban Geography, 46(1), 21-42.
- Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination. The Sociological Review, 73(1), 3-23.
- Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: a grounded view from China. Progress in Human Geography, 48(6), 779-804. View this article in WRRO
- Attack the bot: Mode effects and the challenges of conducting a mixed-mode household survey during the Covid-19 pandemic. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 27(6), 791-796.
- Beyond displacement: the co-existence of newcomers and local residents in the process of rural tourism gentrification in China. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 32(1), 8-26.
- The Chinese new middle class and their production of an ‘authentic’ rural landscape in China’s gentrified villages. Geoforum, 144, 103793-103793.
- ‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign. Urban Studies, 60(12), 2418-2435.
- Are mixed neighborhoods more socially cohesive? Evidence from Nanjing, China. Urban Geography, 44(5), 803-823.
- Perceived social distance, socioeconomic status and adaptive residential mobility in urban China. Habitat International, 120, 102500-102500.
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FOUR MODES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE : The View from Nanjing, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(3), 535-554.
- From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: new trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China. Urban Studies, 62(15), 3092-3109. View this article in WRRO