WEI, Kai

Name:WEI, Kai
Introduction:

Department of Urban Planning, South ChinaUniversity of Technology, 
Guangzhou, P. R. of China.
 +86-13660088163(cell)
arkai@126.com
Research field:
With a background in urban geography, urban planning and architecture, I focus on the Chinese rural land-use change in resent years. While most of the research in this field in China concentrate on the land institution issues and take a top-down point of view, my research is a rather bottom-up investigation and studies more of the peasant’s reaction to the land institution.
Education:
 Ph.l D candidate in Human Geography, Sun yet-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. of China (2003~present)
  Masterl of engineering in Landscape Planning and Design from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P. R. of China (1996)
  Bachelorl of Architecture from South China University of Technology (1994)
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, South China University of Technology (1996~present)
  Coursesl conducted include: Urban Geography and Urban Planning, Master Planning, Professional English.
  Inn “Urban Geography and Urban Planning” (for postgraduates): some crucial subjects that are in between Urban Geography and Urban Planning are discussed. Then the students are encouraged to make a team research on an issue in this field. During the research, each team will report their progress every week and discuss about their research in the course. 
  Inn “Master Planning” (for undergraduates): a master plan of a town or a village will be done by a team of student with my instruction. I need to contact local government and planning design institutes to get a master plan project for the course. I will give several lectures on the principals of this kind of planning, then arrange and instruct the whole planning process, which includes site investigation, meeting with local government and communities, discuss with planning authorities, scheme design, cooperate with other professionals, present the final scheme, etc.
  Inn “Professional English” (for undergraduates): after several lectures on the characteristics of scientific English in the field of urban planning, students are given a subject on which they need to prepare and give a presentation in English.
  Designl projects include: Master Plan for HuashanTown, Guangzhou; Master Plan for XinanVillage, Zengchen, Guangzhou; Master Plan for Quannan County, Jiangxi Province; Master Plan for six villages in Nansha, Guangzhou.
  Researchl projects include both independent and government consigned projects that are related to rural land-use change in Pearl River Delta (PRD), China.
  Inn my doctoral research “Space Transition of Jiaozhong Village - Researches on the Land-Use and Land-Ownership Change of a Village in PRD”, I participated the life of a self-promoted industrialized village - JiaozhongVillage to observe and study its space transition based on its land-use change and land-ownership change. The analysis is focus on the space-related acts under certain socio-economic structure by both internal people (peasants families and village collective) and external people (business and government personnel). The research try to figure out an integral express and explanation of a community’s space transition from an internal people’s point of view, and provide an explanation for this specific type of space transition through a description of a dualism process: capitalization and structuration.
  Inn “Research on The Policy to Promote Peasants’ concentrate residence in Huadu District, Guangzhou”, the urban planning and land policy that is related to this issue is investigated, some concentrate modes are discussed and compared. Both the social and economical way to encourage the concentration are considered.
Publications:
 Wei,l Kai and Xu, X. Q., Urban Space Production Critique: an introduction and evaluation on Neo-Marxism space research paradigm. Urban Problem, 2009(4): p. 83-87. (in Chinese)
  Wei,l Kai, The Space Change of a Peasant Family in PRD. Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Guangzhou, 2009 (in Chinese)
  Wei,l Kai, A Study of Rural Space Development from Land-Capitalization Point of View -- A Case Study of the Land Change and Space Evolving of a Village in PRD, China after Reform and Open policy. International Conference on Urban and Regional Planning in Transitional China, Nanjing, 2009 (in English)
  Wei,l Kai, A (Hypothesis) Balance Model for the Land Supply and Demand of Urban Village. Paper presented at The Second International Symposium on Urban Development and Land Policy in China, Shenzhen, 2006 (in Chinese)
Membership:
Member of China Urban Planning Society.