Urban Research Seminar Series : How China and India Govern their Cities

The NYU Urban Initiative presents Xuefei Ren, Ph.D of Michigan State University, in line up of eminent international scholars for this year’s multidisciplinary Urban Research Seminar. 

 Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author of two award-winning books: Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Urban China (Polity Press, 2013). Currently she is working on a number of large-scale, historical-comparative projects, including a new book on urban governance and citizen rights in China and India, based on historical analyses and fieldwork in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Beijing, and Guangzhou (forthcoming, Princeton University Press); a photo-documentary on Detroit and rustbelt China; and a series of articles examining informal settlements, mega-events, and spectacles in urban China, India and Brazil. She regularly teaches undergraduate courses on social theory, urban sociology, visual sociology, international development, and graduate seminars on comparative urban theory and structural inequality. She is a recipient of a number of distinguished fellowships and grants, including from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and American Council of Learned Societies.

Snacks and refreshments provided!