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Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, H., McFarlane, C., & Tripathy, P. (2024). Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei. Urban Studies, 61(8), 1526-1544. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231211011

Density has been a key focus in research on the urban dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of this work has debated the role of density in infection rates. In contrast, we develop a comparison of the management of pandemic urbanism in two high d... Read More about Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei.

Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Chen, H. (2024). Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis. Political Geography, 108, Article 103018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103018

Existing at the intersection of health, politics and affect, medical masks evoke lines and flights of contentions and resistance in everyday lives. They are instruments of negotiation that mediate across bodies, breaths, airs, faces, and lived experi... Read More about Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis.

Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, H., & Mcfarlane, C. (2023). Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong. Housing Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2280033

This paper offers an approach to understanding high-density living in precarious housing. Developing a conception of housing density based on ‘density expressions’ and ‘density modalities’, we argue for a focus on how domestic density is experienced... Read More about Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong.

Introduction: rethinking urban density (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Chowdhury, R., McFarlane, C., & Tripathy, P. (2020). Introduction: rethinking urban density. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1241-1246. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1854531

In this piece, we introduce a special issue on “Rethinking Urban Density” which asks: what are the meanings and implications of density in cities today? How might we understand and research it? This collection offers a set of reflections on urban den... Read More about Introduction: rethinking urban density.

CityPsyche—Hong Kong (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, H., & Barber, L. (2020). CityPsyche—Hong Kong. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2), 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739431

Hong Kong citizens’ fierce and evolving struggles, developing from the summer of 2019 onwards, have spawned countless stories, protest tactics, sacrifices, and debates in Hong Kong society and beyond. In this article, we probe Hong Kong’s condition,... Read More about CityPsyche—Hong Kong.

Cashing in on the sky: financialization and urban air rights in the Taipei Metropolitan Area (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, H. (2020). Cashing in on the sky: financialization and urban air rights in the Taipei Metropolitan Area. Regional Studies, 54(2), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1599104

This paper focuses on urban air rights, property rights for the ownership, development and trading of the airspace above land parcels. A three-fold contribution is made to the study of urban financialization. First, urban air rights are explicated as... Read More about Cashing in on the sky: financialization and urban air rights in the Taipei Metropolitan Area.