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Dear friends and colleagues, New publications on the credibility thesis in relation to land, property, and resources have been released. They include a study by Zhou and Yau (2021) proposing a refinement of the theory through the case of Chinese informal housing; a paper arguing for a dynamic theory of public instead of private financial institutions (Marois, 2021), and the first study confirm...
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Why would a certain institution work in one context, while the same institution fails in another? The likely answer is because institutional form is secondary to function as may be expressed through its credibility. This webinar welcomed submissions that aim to examine this question theoretically, methodologically and empirically. The webinar was great fun with participants hailing from all ov...
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In parallel to decades of relentless urbanization, the Chinese government has, with much less fanfare and global attention, been dramatically redefining its countryside. This is the topic for a much acclaimed, well visited exhibition on the Chinese countryside by Rem Koolhaas, organized at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Prof. Peter Ho acted as advisor to the project team. For impressions, ple...
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Cambridge University Press has recently launched the Elements on Global Development Studies, a new short monograph series (20,000-30,000 words), that publishes ground-breaking, novel works that move beyond existing theories and methodologies of development to consider social change in real times and real spaces. The series is essentially inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary in nature as refl...
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For a special issue on the Credibility of Informality with regards to the property rights of urban housing, slums and land in an urban context, the journal Cities (SSCI, IF: 2.7) could consider high-quality papers.   Papers that focus on informal property rights in regions except for China, i.e.: Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Australia, etc., ca...
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