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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
93
Citations
27123
World Ranking
152
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Fulong Wu is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a strong focus on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics as subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Political Economy and Marxism

Their recent papers include:

  • "The state acts through the market: 'State entrepreneurialism' beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism" (2020) published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Beyond Growth Machine Politics: Understanding State Politics and National Political Mandates in China's Urban Redevelopment" (2021) published in Antipode
  • "Rethinking China's urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions" (2022) published in Progress in Human Geography
  • "Assetization: The Chinese Path to Housing Financialization" (2020) published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city" (2021) published in Urban Geography

Fulong Wu has also authored books, including:

  • "Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban revolution and governance changes" (2022), published by UCL Press

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Fangzhu Zhang
  • Yi Feng
  • Zhigang Li
  • Zhenfa Li
  • Weikai Wang

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Cities
  • Regional Studies
  • Urban Geography
  • Land Use Policy
  • Urban Studies

Among the recognitions received, Fulong Wu is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Calibration of stochastic cellular automata: the application to rural-urban land conversions

    Fulong Wu

  • Simulation of Land Development through the Integration of Cellular Automata and Multicriteria Evaluation

    Fulong Wu;Christopher John Webster

  • China's Emerging Neoliberal Urbanism: Perspectives from Urban Redevelopment

    Shenjing He;Fulong Wu

  • China's Changing Urban Governance in the Transition Towards a More Market-oriented Economy

    Fulong Wu

  • Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods

    Yuting Liu;Shenjing He;Fulong Wu;Christopher John Webster

  • Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space

    Fulong Wu;Jiang Xu;Anthony Gar-On Yeh

  • Property-Led Redevelopment in Post-Reform China: A Case Study of Xintiandi Redevelopment Project in Shanghai

    Shenjing He;Fulong Wu

  • SimLand: a prototype to simulate land conversion through the integrated GIS and CA with AHP-derived transition rules

    Fulong Wu

  • The Global and Local Dimensions of Place-making: Remaking Shanghai as a World City:

    Fulong Wu

  • Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area

    Fulong Wu;Fangzhu Zhang;Chris Webster

  • The New Land Development Process and Urban Development in Chinese Cities

    Anthony Gar-On Yeh;Fulong Wu

  • Changes in the Structure of Public Housing Provision in Urban China

    Fulong Wu

  • Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

    Fulong Wu

  • The (Post-) Socialist Entrepreneurial City as a State Project: Shanghai's Reglobalisation in Question

    Fulong Wu

  • Rediscovering the ‘Gate’ Under Market Transition: From Work-unit Compounds to Commodity Housing Enclaves

    Fulong Wu

  • Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China

    Fulong Wu

  • The Transformation of the Urban Planning System in China from a Centrally-Planned to Transitional Economy

    Anthony Gar-on Yeh;Fulong Wu

  • Urban poverty and marginalization under market transition: the case of Chinese cities

    Fulong Wu

  • Land Commodification: New Land Development and Politics in China since the Late 1990s

    Jiang Xu;Anthony G. O. Yeh;Fulong Wu

  • China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling

    Fulong Wu

  • China's changing economic governance: Administrative annexation and the reorganization of local governments in the Yangtze River Delta

    Jingxiang Zhang;Fulong Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Webster
Chris Webster University of Hong Kong
Shenjing He
Shenjing He University of Hong Kong
Zhigang Li
Zhigang Li Wuhan University
Nicholas A. Phelps
Nicholas A. Phelps University of Melbourne
Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Anthony Gar-On Yeh University of Hong Kong
John R. Logan
John R. Logan Brown University
Peter Newman
Peter Newman Curtin University
Jianfa Shen
Jianfa Shen Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London

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