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George C. S. Lin

George C. S. Lin

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
8418
World Ranking
3883
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

George C. S. Lin is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and specializes in the social sciences with a particular focus on urban studies, political science and international relations, economics and econometrics, finance, and strategy and management.

The primary research themes explored by George C. S. Lin include:

  • China's socioeconomic reforms and governance
  • Urbanization and city planning
  • Urban planning and governance
  • Housing, finance, and neoliberalism
  • Sustainability and climate change governance
  • Behavioral health and interventions
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by George C. S. Lin illustrate the focus on urban and governance issues in China:

  • "Placing China's land marketization: The state, market, and the changing geography of land use in Chinese cities," 2021, Land Use Policy
  • "Breaking the land monopoly: Can collective land reform alleviate the housing shortage in China's mega-cities?", 2020, Cities
  • "Spatializing the project of state rescaling in post-reform China: Emerging geography of National New Areas," 2020, Habitat International
  • "Drawing up the missing link: State-society relations and the remaking of urban landscapes in Chinese cities," 2021, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "The making of low-carbon urbanism: Climate change, discursive strategy, and rhetorical decarbonization in Chinese cities," 2022, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

George C. S. Lin has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • The Journal of Urology
  • Habitat International
  • Land Use Policy
  • Cities
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Collaborations have been a consistent part of George C. S. Lin's work, with repeated co-authorship alongside the following researchers:

  • Yunjing Li
  • Volkan Çetinkaya
  • Tracy Kuo Lin
  • Ronghao Jiang
  • Kalin Werner

Recognition of academic standing includes being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The State, Land System, and Land Development Processes in Contemporary China

    George C. S. Lin;Samuel P. S. Ho

  • China's land resources and land-use change: insights from the 1996 land survey

    George C.S Lin;Samuel P.S Ho

  • Emerging land markets in rural and urban China : policies and practices

    Samuel P.S. Ho;George C.S. Lin

  • Reproducing Spaces of Chinese Urbanisation: New City-based and Land-centred Urban Transformation

    George C. S. Lin

  • Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China

    George C. S. Lin;Fangxin Yi

  • The growth and structural change of Chinese cities: a contextual and geographic analysis

    George C.S Lin

  • Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung;George C. S. Lin

  • Climatic Change, Wars and Dynastic Cycles in China Over the Last Millennium

    David D. Zhang;C. Y. Jim;George C.-S. Lin;Yuan-Qing He

  • Metropolitan development in a transitional socialist economy: Spatial restructuring in the Pearl River Delta, China

    George C. S. Lin

  • China's Landed Urbanization: Neoliberalizing Politics, Land Commodification, and Municipal Finance in the Growth of Metropolises

    George C S Lin

  • Chinese Urbanism in Question: State, Society, and the Reproduction of Urban Spaces

    George C. S. Lin

  • Converting Land to Nonagricultural Use in China’s Coastal Provinces Evidence from Jiangsu

    Samuel P. S. Ho;George C. S. Lin

  • Local Capitalisms, Local Citizenship and Translocality: Rescaling from Below in the Pearl River Delta Region, China

    Alan Smart;George C.S. Lin

  • Scaling-up Regional Development in Globalizing China: Local Capital Accumulation, Land-centred Politics, and Reproduction of Space

    George C. S. Lin

  • Emerging spaces of neoliberal urbanism in China: Land commodification, municipal finance and local economic growth in prefecture-level cities

    George C. S. Lin;Amy Y Zhang

  • State Policy and Spatial Restructuring in Post‐reform China, 1978–95

    George C. S. Lin

  • De-centering 'spatial fix'—patterns of territorialization and regional technological dynamism of ICT hubs in China

    Yu Zhou;Yifei Sun;Y. H. Dennis Wei;George C. S. Lin

  • Peri-urbanism in Globalizing China: A Study of New Urbanism in Dongguan

    George C. S. Lin

  • Industrial Clustering and Technological Innovation in China: New Evidence from the ICT Industry in Shenzhen:

    Cassandra C Wang;George C S Lin;Guicai Li

  • Strategizing urbanism in the era of neoliberalization: State power reshuffling, land development and municipal finance in urbanizing China

    George Cs Lin;Xun Li;Fiona F Yang;Fox Zy Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi-Fei Sun
Yi-Fei Sun Xiamen University
Shenjing He
Shenjing He University of Hong Kong
Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Anthony Gar-On Yeh University of Hong Kong
Yehua Dennis Wei
Yehua Dennis Wei University of Utah
Yuanqing He
Yuanqing He Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lily Kong
Lily Kong Singapore Management University
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ivan Turok
Ivan Turok University of the Free State
Stan Geertman
Stan Geertman Utrecht University

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