Yping Fang
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Expert, Housing & Social Development
E-mail: y.fang@ihs.nl
Tel: +31 10 408 9867
Yiping Fang (Ph.D. in Design and Planning, University of Colorado, USA; MS Urban Planning & BA Architecture, Tsinghua University, China; ), has a broad interest in housing and urban studies with a particular focus on in socio-economic and spatial transformation of cities in transitional economies. Her doctoral research looked at residential satisfaction of inner city redeveloped neighborhood in Beijing and patterns of residential mobility. Her main focus has been on investigating the policy implications of housing for the disadvantaged social groups in the developing societies.
Before joining IHS, Yiping worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) at Brown University, where she studied the China Census 2000 data and examined inequalities among residents during China's housing reform. Before her Ph.D. studies, she has worked in Beijing as an architect and a planner. She is currently involved in a series of international comparative research on welfare state, segregation and urban governance. She recently secured a funding from the Asia-Europe Foundation and the European Alliance for Asian Studies, and will organize a workshop named "Enclave urbanism as problem or solution: European and Asian perspectives" at University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
