Professor and Graduate Program Director for Geography- Department of Geosciences
Professor Piper Gaubatz (AB, Princeton University; MA and PhD, University of California Berkeley), Professor andGeography Program Head, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an urban geographer specializing in the study of urban change, development and planning in East Asia and the U.S. Her career as a China researcher began with more than a year in residence at Peking University for dissertation research in the late 1980s. Trained as an urban morphologist, she is particularly interested in the processes which shape urban space, and especially in the historical and contemporary linkages between policy, practice and physical and social urban forms. Her current research interests include an ongoing analysis of the diffusion of urban planning practices and ideologies from eastern China to western China, which places urban transformation within the contexts of regional inequality and environmental change, and an analysis of the changing role of public space in Chinese cities. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has authored two books on Chinese cities: Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers (Stanford University Press, 1996) and The Chinese City, co-authored with Weiping Wu (Routledge, 2013).
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About Piper R Gaubatz
Professor Piper Gaubatz (AB, Princeton University; MA and PhD, University of California Berkeley), Professor andGeography Program Head, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an urban geographer specializing in the study of urban change, development and planning in East Asia and the U.S. Her career as a China researcher began with more than a year in residence at Peking University for dissertation research in the late 1980s. Trained as an urban morphologist, she is particularly interested in the processes which shape urban space, and especially in the historical and contemporary linkages between policy, practice and physical and social urban forms. Her current research interests include an ongoing analysis of the diffusion of urban planning practices and ideologies from eastern China to western China, which places urban transformation within the contexts of regional inequality and environmental change, and an analysis of the changing role of public space in Chinese cities. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has authored two books on Chinese cities: Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers (Stanford University Press, 1996) and The Chinese City, co-authored with Weiping Wu (Routledge, 2013).
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