Wen-I Lin
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Department of Geography
King’s College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Email: adorno.lwe@msa.hinet.net
King’s College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Email: adorno.lwe@msa.hinet.net
Research
Title: Global urban renaissance and local community governance – London and Shanghai
Supervisors: Professor Rob Imrie and Dr. Mike Raco
Policies and programmes to regenerate cities are emblematic of globalisation. However, we have little or no knowledge of the diverse ways in which globalisation is shaped by placed-based, social, institutional, and political processes and with what effects on the socio-spatial development of cities. In redressing this, the research explores the ideologies, concepts, and discourses of urban regeneration in two contrasting settings, Shanghai and London. Deploying Foucault’s (1977) concept of governmentality and Lefebvre’s (1992) ideas about the production of space, the research documents, empirically, the different ways in which politicians, policy makers, and other actors seek to reproduce physical and social structures in London and Shanghai by recourse to: (a). The deployment of particular discourses, or stories, to legitimate the trajectory and content of policy programmes; and (b). The activation of such discourses through governments’ empowerment of community.
Research Objectives:
Supervisors: Professor Rob Imrie and Dr. Mike Raco
Policies and programmes to regenerate cities are emblematic of globalisation. However, we have little or no knowledge of the diverse ways in which globalisation is shaped by placed-based, social, institutional, and political processes and with what effects on the socio-spatial development of cities. In redressing this, the research explores the ideologies, concepts, and discourses of urban regeneration in two contrasting settings, Shanghai and London. Deploying Foucault’s (1977) concept of governmentality and Lefebvre’s (1992) ideas about the production of space, the research documents, empirically, the different ways in which politicians, policy makers, and other actors seek to reproduce physical and social structures in London and Shanghai by recourse to: (a). The deployment of particular discourses, or stories, to legitimate the trajectory and content of policy programmes; and (b). The activation of such discourses through governments’ empowerment of community.
Research Objectives:
- Exploring the employment and deployment of the discourse of community in the neo-liberalist age.
- Comparing and evaluating the urban policies relating to regeneration and community between London and Shanghai
- Illustrating and criticizing the community governance in Shanghai’s Luwan district and the London’s Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Biography
Wen was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1970. He has had a professional architecture and urban planning training in the Department of Architecture, Chung Yuan Christian University (C.Y.C.U.), Taiwan. Wen gained a Bachelor of Architecture in 1995, and was awarded a master’s Scholarship from Taiwan’s Archilife Research Foundation, and completed a Master of Architecture thesis titled “The Concept of Alienation in the Critical Discourse of Taiwan’s Pre-Sales Housing System” in 1998. Wen has worked as an architect assistant, architecture and interior designer, and project manager over four years, and has served in the Taiwanese tank army as a corporal of electronic communication for two years. At present, Wen is doing his PhD research funded by the “Ministry of Education, Taiwan” about urban policy and community governance between London and Shanghai with Professor Rob Imrie and Dr. Raco in KCL.
Academic interests: I am interested in two main fields. One relates to urban policy, regeneration and community, particularly the topic of urban governance and citizens’ activation. The other relates to the discourse of architecture, which considers the interrelationships between the architects, the public, and the built form.
Personal interests: I like to travel and observe different places, and really communicate with different people.
Academic interests: I am interested in two main fields. One relates to urban policy, regeneration and community, particularly the topic of urban governance and citizens’ activation. The other relates to the discourse of architecture, which considers the interrelationships between the architects, the public, and the built form.
Personal interests: I like to travel and observe different places, and really communicate with different people.
Publications
Wen-I Lin and Rob Imrie, 2006, Shanghai’s urban development, Town and Country Planning, March, 86-87.
