Assistant Prof. FENG, Yi

Dr Yi Feng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Nanjing University. Before this, she worked as a research fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL). She completed her doctoral research at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, and received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at Nanjing University.

Her research focuses on the political economy of urban development, urban governance, urban financialisation, land operations and urban development model, and urban political ecology. She has publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, Political Geography, Land Use Policy, Cities, etc. Recently she has received the 2023 RSA & Routledge Early Career Award for her research on the financialisation of urban development.

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2022) Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China. Regional Studies. 56(8):1259-1270. (JCR Q1，Regional Studies 杂志三年高引论文)

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2024). Turning land into assets: Local government borrowing through land assetization in China, Urban Geography: 1-22. (JCR Q1)

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2024) Building state centrality through state selective financialization: Reconfiguring the land reserve system in China, Environment and Planning A 56(3), 766-783. (JCR Q1) 

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2024) Environmental statecraft and changing spatial politics: Erhai Lake protection in China, Political Geography 115: 103196. (JCR Q1)

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2024) New land reserve institution and changing entrepreneurial urban governance in China. Cities. 152:105242. (JCR Q1)

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2023) Shanghai municipal investment corporation: Extending government power through financialization under state entrepreneurialism, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 41(1): 20-36. (JCR Q2)

lFeng Y, Wu F and Zhang F (2022) The development of local government financial vehicles in China: A case study of Jiaxing Chengtou. Land Use Policy, 112: 104793. (JCR Q1)

lWu F, Deng H, Feng Y, Wang Y, Wang W and Zhang F (2024). Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: a grounded view from China. Progress in Human Geography 48(6): 779-804. (JCR Q1)

lZhu K, Zhang F, Wu F and Feng Y (2024) Governing innovation-driven development under state entrepreneurialism in China. Cities, 152: 105194. (JCR Q1)

l冯怡 (2016) 中国规划的政治依附性之辩——转型中国规划的角色认识. 城市规划 (12):8