Weiping Wu ( zh, 吴维萍) is a China urban specialist and Professor at

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, where she directs the Urban Planning program. In 2022, she was appointed interim dean. Wu was appointed as the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) from Fall 2017 through Fall 2019, and was editor of ACSP's Journal of Planning Education and Research from 2008 to 2012.

Education

Wu holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from

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, and a master's degree in Urban Planning and a bachelor's degree in Architecture from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

(China).

Academic life

Wu is a Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia

GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and highly prestigious architecture school.

and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Before joining

in 2016, she was Professor and Chair in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at

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. She is also on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia.

Publications

* 2012 ''The Chinese City'', Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz,

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*“Migrant Housing in Urban China: Choices and Constraints.” ''Urban Affairs Review'' 38, no. 1 (September 2002): 90–119. https://doi.org/10.1177/107808702401097817.

References

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