Dr Yimin Zhao's Outputs (17)

The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, X., & Zhao, Y. (online). The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241270959

A new trend has been emerging in China’s urban and regional politics, as it is becoming prevalent to extend one municipal authority to another, transcending boundaries, often through the establishment of joint development zones. These newly produced... Read More about The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China.

Pluriversal urbanisms (2023)
Journal Article
Moreno-Tabarez, U., Acevedo-Guerrero, T., Sawyer, L., Madden, D., Richter, A., Zhao, Y., Baumann, H., & Gibbons, A. (2023). Pluriversal urbanisms. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 27(5-6), 691-696. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2276600

Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics (2023)
Journal Article
Abdullah, A., Cardoso, R., Dasgupta, S., Pati, S., Plueckhahn, R., Shafique, T., Simone, A., Teo, S. S. K., Ye, J., Zhao, Y., & Urban Re-Arrangements Collective, T. (2023). Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(4), 718-744. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12604

This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re-arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a provisional co... Read More about Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics.

Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies (2022)
Journal Article
Nugraha, E., Wesely, J., Ruszczyk, H. A., de Villiers, I., & Zhao, Y. (2023). Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies. Cities, 133, Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104044

There is growing scholarly attention to secondary and intermediary cities as their relevance for global urban development is increasingly recognised. We call urban academics, scholars, policymakers and practitioners to situate debates on these cities... Read More about Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies.

The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism (2022)
Journal Article
Shin, H. B., Zhao, Y., & Koh, S. Y. (2022). The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism. Urban Geography, 43(10), 1457-1468. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2141491

The assembled papers in this special issue jointly explore the urban manifestation of “Global China” at different scales and involving diverse actors, discussing the ways in which the urban has been reconfigured by China’s global expansion and uncove... Read More about The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism.

The Informal Constitution of State Centrality: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2022). The Informal Constitution of State Centrality: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(4), 631-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13124

As part of China's endeavour to modernize and internationalize its cities, it has repeatedly eliminated street markets and street vendors. But in the (post-)pandemic context, regulating street businesses inclusively turned out to be an efficient way... Read More about The Informal Constitution of State Centrality: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China.

Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care (2022)
Book Chapter
Shin, H. B., Jin, Y., Koh, S. Y., Mckenzie, M., Oh, D. Y., & Zhao, Y. (2022). Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care. In H. B. Shin, M. Mckenzie, & D. Y. Oh (Eds.), COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post-pandemic world (291-306). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.cov.z

The performativity of the state in China’s land transformation: a case study of Dahongmen, Beijing (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2022). The performativity of the state in China’s land transformation: a case study of Dahongmen, Beijing. Oxford Development Studies, 50(1), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2022.2025770

The micropolitics involved in urbanising land is yet to be well illustrated in urban and development studies. With the case of Dahongmen in Beijing, this paper explores the governing techniques for dealing with land transformation to uncover the natu... Read More about The performativity of the state in China’s land transformation: a case study of Dahongmen, Beijing.

The porous urban (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2022). The porous urban. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 26(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2022.2041291

Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Koh, S. Y., Zhao, Y., & Shin, H. B. (2022). Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia. Urban Geography, 43(10), 1469-1495. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.1999725

While green urbanism has been discussed extensively in the urban studies literature, less attention has been paid to the micropolitics of its cross-border transplantation. Using the case of Forest City, a mainland Chinese developer-led mega-project i... Read More about Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia.

Constructing metropolitan space: Actors, policies and processes of rescaling in world metropolises (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2021). Constructing metropolitan space: Actors, policies and processes of rescaling in world metropolises. Journal of Urban Affairs, 43(7), 1042-1043. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1868918

Sanxian: Re-/un-thinking Chinese urban hierarchy with a medium-sized city (2020)
Book Chapter
Jin, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2020). Sanxian: Re-/un-thinking Chinese urban hierarchy with a medium-sized city. . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126768-3

Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2020). Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1247-1259. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850046

This paper engages with discussions on geographies of urban density by investigating the enduring power relations that underlie the (de-)forming of urban densities in Beijing. Articulating a topological framework with the infrastructural lives of soc... Read More about Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density.

Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2020). Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13(3), 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa032

Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a trans-lational turn to foreground dialogues-rather than equivalences-between languages. Drawing on the philosophies of language and hermeneutics, I adopt 'the fusion of... Read More about Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies.

Whither progressive urban futures? Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Shin, H. B., Zhao, Y., & Koh, S. Y. (2020). Whither progressive urban futures? Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2), 244-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739925

Compressed development experiences, especially in Asia, have translated into expectations for ‘fast cities’ where time and space are compressed to materialise ‘real’ Asia experiences. However, what does ‘fast urbanism’ mean for those who see Asian ci... Read More about Whither progressive urban futures? Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia.

Urbanism as a State project: Lessons from Beijing’s Green Belt (2018)
Book Chapter
Shin, H. B., & Zhao, Y. (2018). Urbanism as a State project: Lessons from Beijing’s Green Belt. . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315505855-3

This chapter shows that the use of state violence goes hand in hand with another dimension of state action, that is co-option of villagers by the imposition of what Henri Lefebvre refers to as 'official urbanism'. It aims to reflect upon the use of o... Read More about Urbanism as a State project: Lessons from Beijing’s Green Belt.

Space as method: Field sites and encounters in Beijing’s green belts (2017)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y. (2017). Space as method: Field sites and encounters in Beijing’s green belts. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 21(2), 190-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353342

Great urban transformations are diffusing across the global South, removing the original landscape of urban margins to make of them a new urban frontier. These processes raise questions of both validity and legitimacy for ethnographic practice, requi... Read More about Space as method: Field sites and encounters in Beijing’s green belts.