03/08/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryBook Review 1: Planning’s New Materialist Turn? A Review of Planning for a Material World It is the wager of Planning for a Material World (2015), a collection of essays edited by Lauren Lieto and Robert Beauregard, that new materialism provides planners with a “path-breaking” theoretical approach “tightly connected to the material world they hope to change” (p. 2). The new materialism, as derived here… read more
03/07/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryArticle 3: Subsidized Rental Housing in the United States: What We Know and What We Need to Learn in Three Themes Abstract In the face of a severe and deepening affordable rental housing shortage in the United States, subsidized rental housing, though comprising a small portion of the housing stock, is a critical resource. In this study, we synthesize and summarize secondary research and opinions from eight leading experts on the… read more
03/05/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryArticle 2: Transregional Communities and the Regional Economy: A Case Study of Development in the Chaoshan Region, China Abstract Communities are important intangible assets for regional development, yet current literature either overemphasizes local institutions and localized social networks or focuses on transnational Communities. In this study, I propose a transregional perspective on this issue and try to reveal how the transregional community is a facilitating mechanism for regional… read more
