Selected Publications

Edited books and monographs

  1. Cecilia Chu and He, Shenjing (Eds.) 2021 The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  2. Li, Si-ming, He, Shenjing, Chan, Kam Wing (Eds.) 2017 Changing China: Migration, Communities and Governance, London: Routledge.
  3. Wang, Donggen and He, Shenjing (Eds.) 2016 Urban Living: Mobility, Sociability and Wellbeing, Berlin: Springer.
  4. Samara, Tony, He, Shenjing, Chen, Guo (Eds.) 2013 Locating Right to the City in the Global South: Transnational urban governance and socio-spatial transformations, London & New York:
    Routledge.
  5. Wu, Fulong, Webster, Chris, He, Shenjing and Liu, Yuting 2010 Urban Poverty in China. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.

International refereed journal articles

(Underlined names indicate students or research assistants)

  1. Cai, R., Li, C., & He, S. (2021). Consciousness on property rights, homeowner associations and neighbourhood governance: Evidence from Shanghai. Cities, 119, 103350.
  2. Wang, K., Qian, J., & He, S. (2021). Contested Worldings of E-Waste Environmental Justice: Nonhuman Agency and E-Waste Scalvaging in Guiyu, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-20.
  3. Cai, R., & He, S. (2021). Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: the extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach. Urban Geography, 1-23.
  4. Su, S., He, S., Sun, C., Zhang, H., Hu, L., & Kang, M. (2021). Do landscape amenities impact private housing rental prices? A hierarchical hedonic modeling approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online housing advertisements across five Chinese megacities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 58, 126968.
  5. Huang, Y., He, S., & Gan, L. (2021). Introduction to special issue: unpacking the Chinese dream of homeownership. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36, 1-7.
  6. Huang, Y., He, S., & Gan, L. (2021). Introduction to SI: Homeownership and housing divide in China. Cities, 108, 102967.
  7. He S. (2020) Urban entrepreneurialism 2.0? Financialization, cross-scale dynamics, and post-political governance, Dialogues in Human Geography. 10 (3), 322-325.
  8. He, S. & Chang, Y. (2020) A Zone of Exception? Interrogating the hybrid housing regime and nested enclaves in China-Singapore Suzhou-Industrial-Park. Housing Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02673037. 2020.1814208
  9. Su, S., Zhang, J., He, S., Zhang, H., Hu, L., & Kang, M. (2020) Unraveling the impact of TOD on housing rental prices and implications on spatial planning: A comparative analysis of five Chinese megacities. Habitat International, 107, 102309.
  10. Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). From Dissensus to Consensus: State Rescaling and Modalities of Power under the Belt and Road Initiative in Western China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 1080/24694452.2020.1823808
  11. Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). Informal Property Rights as Relational and Functional: Unravelling the Relational Contract in China’s Informal Housing Market. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. DOI: 1111/1468-2427.12927
  12. Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). Who feels secure in customary tenure and why? A triangular framework of perceived tenure security in China’s small property right housing. Cities, 107, 102900.
  13. Yan, X., & He, S. (2020). The co-evolution of therapeutic landscape and health tourism in bama longevity villages, China: An actor-network perspective. Health & Place, 66, 102448.
  14. Yan, X., Dong, D., He, S., & Webster, C. (2020). Examining Trans-Provincial Diagnosis of Rare Diseases in China: The Importance of Healthcare Resource Distribution and Patient Mobility. Sustainability, 12(13), 5444.
  15. Li, Z., He, S., Su, S., Li, G., & Chen, F. (2020). Public Services Equalization in Urbanizing China: Indicators, Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Implications on Regional Economic Disparities. Social Indicators Research, 1-65.
  16. Hu, L., He, S., Luo, Y., Su, S., Xin, J., & Weng, M. (2020). A social-media-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of equitable housing policy in mitigating education accessibility induced social inequalities in Shanghai, China. Land Use Policy, 94, 104513.
  17. Song, G., Liu, L., He, S., Cai, L., & Xu, C. (2020). Safety perceptions among African mis in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. Cities, 99, 102624.
  18. Yan, Xiang, He, Shenjing, & Dong, Dong (2020). Determining How Far an Adult Rare Disease Patient Needs to Travel for a Definitive Diagnosis: A Cross-Sectional Examination of the 2018 National Rare Disease Survey in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(5).
  19. Hu, Fox ZY, George C.S. Lin, Anthony G.O. Yeh, He, Shenjing, Xingjian Liu (2020). Reluctant policy innovation through profit concession and informality tolerance: A strategic relational view of policy entrepreneurship in China’s urban redevelopment. Public Administration and Development 40(1), 65-75.
  20. Wei, Zongcai., Liu, Yuting., He, Shenjing., & Mo, Haitong (2020). Housing differentiation in transitional urban China. Cities, 96, 102469.
  21. He, Shenjing, Zhang, Mengzhu, Wei, Zongcai. (2020) The state project of crisis management: China’s Shantytown Redevelopment Schemes under state-led financialization. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52 (3), 632-653
  22. Zhang, J., & He, S. (2020). Smart technologies and urban life: A behavioral and social perspective. Sustainable Cities and Society, 63. 102460. 1-4
  23. He, Shenjing, Wang, Dong, Webster Chris, Chau, KW. (2019) Property rights with price tags? Pricing uncertainties in the production, transaction and consumption of China’s small property right housing. Land Use Policy 81, 424-433.
  24. He, Shenjing, and Jun Wang (2019). State-led creative/cultural city making and its contestations in East Asia: A multi-scalar analysis of the entrepreneurial state and the creative class. Geoforum 106, 305-309.
  25. He, Shenjing (2019) The creative spatio-temporal fix: Creative and cultural industries development in Shanghai, China. Geoforum 106, 310-319.
  26. He, Shenjing(2019) Three waves of state-led gentrification in China, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(1), 26-34.
  27. Wang, Kun & He, Shenjing (2019) Unraveling the marginalization of new generation peasant workers in China: Cultural reproduction and symbolic construction. Journal of Urban Affairs41(3), 282-304.
  28. Zhou, Hao, He, Shenjing, Cai, Yuyang, Wang, Miao, Su, Shiliang (2019) Social inequalities in neighborhood visual walkability: Using Street View imagery and deep learning technologies to facilitate healthy city planning. Sustainable Cities and Society101605.
  29. Hu, Lirong, He, Shenjing, Han, Zixuan, Xiao, He, Su, Shiliang, Weng, Min, Cai, Zhongliang (2019) Monitoring housing rental prices based on social media: An integrated approach of machine-learning algorithms and hedonic modeling to inform equitable housing policies. Land Use Policy82: 657-673.
  30. Wang, Dong, He, Shenjing, Webster, Chris, Zhang, Xiaoling (2019). Unravelling residential satisfaction and relocation intention in three urban neighborhood types in Guangzhou, China. Habitat International, 85, 53-62.
  31. Yu, Meng, He, Shenjing, Wu, Dunxu, Zhu, Hengpeng, Webster, Chris (2019) Examining the Multi-Scalar Unevenness of High-Quality Healthcare Resources Distribution in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(16), 2813.
  32. Zhu, Lei, Zhong, Shuang, Tu, Wei, Zheng, Jing, He, Shenjing, Bao, Junzhe, & Huang, Cunrui (2019) Assessing spatial accessibility to medical resources at the community level in shenzhen, china. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(2), 242.
  33. He, Shenjing, Li, Lingyue, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jun. (2018) A small entrepreneurial city in action: Policy mobility and evolving entrepreneurial endeavors in Jiyuan, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42(4), 684-702
  34. Zhang, Mengzhu, He, Shenjing, & Zhao, Pengjun (2018). Revisiting inequalities in the commuting burden: Institutional constraints and job-housing relationships in Beijing. Journal of Transport Geography 71, 58-71.
  35. Cheng, Hui, Liu, Yuting, He, Shenjing, David Shaw (2017) From Development Zones to Edge Cities: A Case Study of Nansha, China. Cities 71, 110-122
  36. Liu, Yuting, He, Shenjing (Corresponding author), 2017 Unpacking the heterogeneity of poor neighbourhoods and neighbouring in large Chinese cities, Area Development and Policy 2 (3), 294-313.
  37. He, Shenjing and Qian, Junxi (2017) From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies.Urban Studies, 54(4) 827-846.
  38. He, Shenjing, Lily Kong and George Lin, (2017), Interpreting China’s new urban spaces: State, market, and society in action, Urban Geography. 38 (5), 635-642
  39. He, Shenjing, Lin Liu, Gangbin Yang, Fenglong Wang, (2017), Housing Differentiation and Housing Poverty in Chinese Low-income Urban Neighborhoods under the Confluence of State-Market Forces, Urban Geography. 38 (5), 729-751
  40. He, Shenjing (2015), Homeowner Association and Neighborhood Governance in Guangzhou, China. Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(3) 223-230.
  41. He, Shenjing, Li, Si-ming, Chan, Kam Wing, (2015), Migration, Communities, and Segregation in Chinese Cities: introducing the special Eurasian Geography and Economics 56 (3) 260-284.
  42. He, Shenjing and Lin, George. C. S. (2015) Producing and consuming China’s new urban space: State, market and society. Urban Studies 52(15), 2757-2773.
  43. He Shenjing (2015) Consuming urban living in ‘villages in the city’: Studentification in Guangzhou, China, Urban Studies 52(15) 2849-2873.
  44. Fu, Qiang, He, Shenjing, Zhu, Yushu, Li, Si-ming, He, Yanling, Zhou, Huoning, Lin, Nan (2015) Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance: Territory-based Networks and Residential Outcomes in Urban China. America Behavioral Scientist. 59(8): 992-1006.
  45. Li, Si-ming, Chan, Kam Wing, He, Shenjing (2014) Migration, mobility, and community change in Chinese cities: introducing the special issue, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(4), 307-312
  46. He, Shenjing, Xue, Desheng (2014) Identity Building and Communal Resistance against Land Grabs in Wukan Village, China, Current Anthropology 55(9), 126-137.
  47. Qian, Junxi, He Shenjing (corresponding author), Liu, Lin (2013) Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China’s rapid urbanisation: The case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou, Journal of Rural Studies, 32: 331-345
  48. He, Shenjing (2013) Evolving enclave urbanism in China and its socio-spatial implications, the case of Guangzhou, Social and Cultural Geography 14(3):243-275.
  49. Huang, Kangning, Liu, Xiaoping, Li, Xia, Liang, Jiayong & He, Shenjing (2013) An improved artificial immune system for seeking the Pareto front of land-use allocation problem in large areas, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 27(5) 922-946.
  50. He Shenjing and Chen, Guo (2012) Interrogating unequal rights in the Chinese City, Environment and Planning A 44(12) 2794 – 2800.
  51. He Shenjing (2012) Two waves of gentrification and emerging rights issues in Guangzhou, China, Environment and Planning A 44(12) 2817 –
  52. Qian, Junxi and He Shenjing (corresponding author) (2012) Rethinking social power and the right to the city midst China’s emerging urbanism, Environment and Planning A 44(12) 2801 – 2816.
  53. Liu, Yuting, He, Shenjing (corresponding author) & Wu, Fulong (2012) Housing Differentiation under Market Transition in Nanjing, China, The Professional Geographer 64(4) 554–571.
  54. He, Shenjing, Liu, Yuting, Wu, Fulong, & Webster, Chris (2010) Social groups and housing differentiation in China’s urban villages: An institutional Housing Studies 25(5), 671 – 691.
  55. He, Shenjing (2010) New-build gentrification in central Shanghai: demographic changes and socioeconomic Population, Space and Place 16(5): 345–361.
  56. He, Shenjing, Wu, Fulong, Webster, Chris &. Liu, Yuting (2010) Poverty concentration and determinants in China’s urban low-income neighbourhoods and social groups”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34(2) 328–349.
  57. Liu, Yuting, He, Shenjing, Wu, Fulong & Webster, Chris (2010) Urban villages under China’s rapid urbanization: unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods”. Habitat International 34(2), 135-144.
  58. Wu, Fulong, He, Shenjing & Webster, Chris (2010) Path dependency and the neighbourhood effect: urban poverty in impoverished neighbourhoods in Chinese Environment and Planning A 42, 134-152.
  59. He, Shenjing, Liu, Yuting, Webster, Chris & Wu, Fulong (2009) Property rights redistribution, entitlement failure, and the impoverishment of landless farmers in Urban Studies 45(9), 1925-1949.
  60. He, Shenjing & Wu, Fulong (2009) China’s emerging neo-liberal urbanism, perspectives from urban Antipode 41(2), pp 282–304.
  61. Liu, Yuting, Wu, Fulong & He, Shenjing (2008) The making of the new urban poor in transitional China: market versus institutionally based exclusion. Urban Geography 29 (8) 811-834.
  62. He, Shenjing, Liu, Yuting, Wu, Fulong & Webster, Chris (2008) Poverty incidence and concentration in different social groups in urban China, a case of Cities 25 (3), 121-132.
  63. He, Shenjing, Webster, Chris, Wu, Fulong & Liu, Yuting (2008) Profiling urban poverty in a Chinese city: a case study of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 1(3), 193-214.
  64. Liu, Yuting, He, Shenjing & Wu, Fulong (2008) Urban pauperization under China’s social exclusion: A case study of Journal of Urban Affairs 30(1), 21-36.
  65. He, Shenjing (2007) State-sponsored gentrification under market transition, the case of Urban Affairs Review 43(2), 171-198.
  66. He, Shenjing & Wu, Fulong (2007) Socio-spatial impacts of property-led redevelopment on China’s urban neighbourhoods. Cities 24(3), 194-208.
  67. He, Shenjing, Zhigang Li and Fulong Wu (2006) Transformation of Chinese Cities, Geographers’ Perspectives. China Information 20(3), 429-56.
  68. He, Shenjing & Wu, Fulong (2005) Property-led redevelopment in post-reform China: a case study of Xintiandi redevelopment project in Shanghai. Journal of Urban Affairs 27(1), 1-23.
  69. Wu, Fulong & He, Shenjing (2005) Changes in Traditional Urban Areas and Impacts of Urban Redevelopment: A Case Study of Three Neighbourhoods in Nanjing, China. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 96(1), 75-95.