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Both Spectacular and Mundane: The Greening of Urban China, 1990-2010

Published October 11, 2012

by iris_author

Date: Thursday, 25 October 2012
Time: 12 to 2pm
Location: 626 York Research Tower

With Alana Boland, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Program of Planning, University of Toronto

Alana Boland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research examines the changing relationship between the urban political economy and environment in Chinese cities.  Her current work focuses on state regulatory initiatives aimed at improving urban environmental conditions, particularly at the community-level.  She is also interested in the economic-environment nexus that influenced of the development of Chinese cities during the 1950s and 1960s.

This talk is the first in a series of talks on Urban Asia at York University.
The series is organized by the York Centre for Asian Research and the City Institute at York University.

For more information:  ycar@yorku.ca

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