Zhu, Jin 朱金

Dr Jin Zhu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction and the Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.

He completed his PhD (Planning and Urban Development) at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and received his bachelors and masters degrees in urban planning from Zhejiang and Tongji Universities, China. During his PhD at UNSW, he also worked as a part-time researcher at the university’s City Futures Research Centre and Social Policy Research Centre. Jin also consulted widely for different levels of government across mainland China during his industry experience as a town planner.

His research interests span planning, housing and land policy, urbanisation and migration, sustainable built environment and urban governance. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation of China. He serves on the editorial board of Planning Practice and Research.

Dr Zhu is willing to supervise PhD students with similar research interests. Outstanding candidates are encouraged to apply for HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme and Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. Applicants can send their CVs and research proposals to jinzhu@hku.hk and explore the possibility.

Fields of Interest

• Housing Studies (informal housing, public housing, transitional housing, student housing and homelessness, etc.)
• Urban Planning and Governance (spatial planning and housing market dynamics, planning decision-making, planning implementation, planning for sustainability and resilience, land acquisition and disputes, etc.)
• Rural and peri-urban studies (rural gentrification, suburbs, migration, Taobao villages, etc.)

Teaching

• MHMP8006 Housing, Planning and Sustainability (Department of Urban Planning and Design)
• RECO4004 Economics of Property Rights (Department of Real Estate and Construction)
• RECO1019 Studio 2 – Land and Real Estate Markets (Department of Real Estate and Construction)

Research Grants

• Principle Investigator, Spatial patterns, formation mechanisms and planning strategies for residential spaces around rail transit stations on the peripheries of Chinese megacities: A case study of Shanghai and Hong Kong, National Natural Science Foundation of China – Young Scientists Fund (Project No. 52208086), 01/2023 – 12/2025, RMB 300,000
• Co-Investigator, Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Conservation and Revitalisation in Hing Chun Yeuk Seven Villages, Kuk Po and Fung Hang, Hong Kong, Countryside Conservation Funding Scheme – Research Activities on Countryside Conservation and Revitalisation (Project No. EP86/27/24/11-7), Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong SAR Government, 09/2021-11/2022, HK$1,982,040

Publications (Selected)

• Li, C., Zhu, J*., & He, S. (2023). Panacea or Pandora’s Box? An institutional analysis of the contested long-term rental apartments development in China. Habitat International, 131, 102715.
• Zhu, J., Pawson, H., Han, H., & Li, B. (2022). How can spatial planning influence housing market dynamics in a pro-growth planning regime? A case study of Shanghai. Land Use Policy, 116, 106066.
• He, B.-J., Wang, J., Zhu, J., & Qi, J. (2022). Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161, 112350.
• Zhu, J., He, S., & Hao, J. (2022). Growing rights consciousness of the marginalised and the reshuffling of the landlord-tenant power relationship: Examining a country park-induced displacement in Shanghai. Population, Space and Place, 28, e2510.
• Gao, X., Zhu, J*., He, B.-J. (2022). The Linkage between Sustainable Development Goals 9 and 11: Examining the Association between Sustainable Urbanization and Intellectual Property Rights Protection. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 2100283.
• Hao, J., Zhu, J*., & Thompson, S. (2022) Surviving in the post-repatriation era: Home-making strategies of homeless people in post-socialist China. Housing Studies, 37(2), 292-314.
• Zhu, J., Li, B., & Pawson, H. (2021). The end of ‘toleration’? Policy ambiguity and converted-housing occupancy in China. Housing Studies, 36(4), 479-499.
• Cao, K., Zhu, J*., & Zheng, L. (2021) The Collaborative Planning turn in China: Exploring three decades of diffusion and reception in Chinese Planning. Cities. 117, 103210.
• Zhu, J., He, B. J., Tang, W., & Thompson, S. (2020). Community blemish or new dawn for the public realm? Governance challenges for self-claimed gardens in urban China. Cities, 102, 102750.
• Tang, W. & Zhu, J*. (2020). Informality and rural industry: Rethinking the impacts of e-commerce on rural development in China. Journal of Rural Studies, 75, 20-29.
• Zhu, J., Li, B., & He, B. J. (2019). Is linked migration overlooked in peri-urban Shanghai? Uncovering the domino effect of driving away interregional migrants. Habitat International, 94,102046.
• He, B. J., Zhu, J*., Zhao, D.X., et al., (2019). Co-benefits approach: Opportunities for implementing sponge city and urban heat island mitigation. Land Use Policy, 86, 147-157.
• He, B., & Zhu, J*. (2018). Constructing community gardens? Residents’ attitude and behaviour towards edible landscapes in emerging urban communities of China. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 34, 154-165.
• Zhu, J., & Tang, W. (2018). Conflict and compromise in planning decision-making: How does a Chinese local government negotiate its construction land quota with higher-level governments?. Environment and Urbanization, 30(1), 155-174.