Research Seminar – Individual-Based Accessibility and Social Exclusion in Suburban China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Research Seminar

Topic:
Individual-Based Accessibility and Social Exclusion in Suburban China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Speaker:
Mr. CHEN Zifeng

PhD Candidate
Department of Urban Planning and Design
The University of Hong Kong

Schedule:
Date: 18 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45-14:00
Venue: Room 829, 8/F, Knowles Building, HKU

Abstract:
Suburbanization in China is characterized by a mixture of government- and market-oriented development as well as greater intra-suburban socioeconomic variations compared with Western cities. Such socioeconomic differentiation may lead to the inequality of accessibility among suburban residents. When it comes to the research of accessibility inequality, the causal relationship between transport and social exclusion has been recognized as the forefront of the transportation policy debate. This research thus attempts to address the linkages between suburbanization, accessibility, and social exclusion in urban China. A research framework based on space-time measures of individual-based accessibility will be developed, so as to answer the following research questions: 1) Will socioeconomic differentiation in suburban China lead to the disparity of individual-based accessibility? 2) Will such transport inequality be associated with the social network and social exclusion?

About the Speaker:
CHEN Zifeng is a PhD student at Department of Urban Planning and Design. Prior to joining the Department in 2015, he obtained a Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning from Sun Yat-sen University and a Master Degree of Science in Human Geography from Peking University. He is the awardee of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. His research interests include travel behavior and urban social geography.

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