Affordable housing has been built in many countries all over the world. Yet the term ëaffordable housingí is interpreted and defined very differently despite a shared focus on housing the less well-off population group. In China, ëaffordable housingí was firstly introduced by the central...

Spatial polarization of population groups as reflected by the formation of affluent residences and immigrant villages is a new development in Chinese cities. In the existing literature, these new formations are attributable to market forces associated with the increasing income disparities...

Since the nationwide housing reform was initiated in 1988, Chinese cities have been transforming themselves from relatively homogeneous societies organized around work-unit compounds towards ones with significant stratification and segregation. Wealthy ígated communitiesî and dilapidated...

This paper examines the location patterns of and the reciprocal relationships between corporate location and office market in Metropolitan Shanghai. Corporate location is viewed a reflection of the globalization process in which metropolitan economies are restructured and firms relocate. Office...

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The paper aims to examine economic interdependence and balancing power politics, and their mixed implications for regional institution building in East Asia based on the concept of common security. By pointing out the gap between the violent conflict prediction and the stability and prosperity...

We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...