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Dr. Hao Pu Dr. Hao Pu
Dr. Hao Pu (郝璞博士)

Associate Professor

Urban Geography, Migration and Mobility,
Urban Housing, Platform Economy

Office:AAB 1235
Tel:(852) 3411 7166
Fax:(852) 3411 5990
Email:ppuhao@hkbu.edu.hk
EDUCATION
  • Ph.D., Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • M.Sc., International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands
  • M.Eng. and B.Eng., Wuhan University, China
TEACHING
  • GEOG2017 Globalization of Economic Activities
  • GEOG3027 Urban Geography
  • GEOG4085/GEOG7570 Urban Development in China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Urban geography
  • Migration and mobility
  • Platform economy
  • Urban housing
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Programme Director of the BSocSc (Hons) in Geography
  • Member of the MSocSc in Contemporary China Studies Programme Management Committee
  • Member of the MA in Global Society Programme Management Committee
 
External Grants
 
  • Research Grants Council (RGC), General Research Fund (GRF) HKBU 12622922, “An assembly line in the head? Choices and experiences of China’s rural migrant workers in the gig economy”, 1/2023-12/2025, HK$ 1,172,071. as PI.

  • Research Grants Council (RGC), Early Career Scheme (ECS) HKBU 22609018, “Rural landholdings and the geographic and social mobility of China’s rural migrants”, 1/2019-12/2022, HK$983,540. as PI.

  • Research Grants Council (RGC), General Research Fund (GRF) HKBU12605715, “Economic geography of unplanned commercial establishments: An investigation of Shenzhen’s urban villages”, 1/2016-6/2018, HK$488,500. as PI.

  • Research Grants Council (RGC), General Research Fund (GRF) HKBU 12622922, “An assembly line in the head? Choices and experiences of China’s rural migrant workers in the gig economy”, 1/2023-12/2025, HK$ 1,172,071. as PI.
  • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy China Program International Fellowship, “The effect of landholdings on the mobility and wellbeing of rural migrants in urban China”, 2/2016-2/2017, US$31,000. as PI.

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC 41401167, “The location choice and spatial organization patterns of urban informal economies in big cities”, 1/2015-12/2017, RMB230,000. as PI.
Internal Grants
 
  • Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant, FRGII/15-16/026, “Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy: A study in Jiangsu”, 8/2016-7/2018, HK$149,760. as PI.

  • Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant, FRGII/13-14/082, “Rural-urban migration in post-reform China: A trade-off between rural land and urban residency”, 8/2014-1/2016, HK$99,800. as PI.

  • Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty Research Grant, FRG I/12-13/072, “Understanding the economic geography of urban informal settlements in China”, 11/2013-3/2015, HK$50,000. as PI.
Peer-reviewed Publications
 
  • Yeung HL and Hao P. (2024) Telecommuting amid Covid-19: The governmobility of work-from-home employees in Hong Kong. Cities 148: 104873.

  • Tang S and Hao P. (2023) Socioeconomic differentiation among food delivery workers in China: The case of Nanjing. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 2(4): 502-516.

  • Hao P and He S. (2022) What is holding farmers back? Endowments and mobility choice of rural citizens in China. Journal of Rural Studies, 89: 66-72.

  • Hao P. (2021) Do landholdings affect social mobility in China? A study of rural migrants in Jiangsu. Cities DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102977.

  • Hao P. (2020) Ancestral country. Dialogues in Human Geography 10(3) 382-385.

  • Cui J, Cui C, Mu X and Hao P. (2020) Home in the big city: Does place of origin affect homeownership among the post-80s in Shanghai. Housing Studies DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853070.

  • Tang S, Hao P and Feng J. (2020). Consumer behavior of rural migrant workers in urban China. Cities DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102856.

  • Tang S and Hao P. (2019) The return intentions of China’s rural migrants: Study in Nanjing and Suzhou, Journal of Urban Affairs, 41(3): 354-371.

  • Yang Z, Hao P and Wu D. (2019) Children’s education or parents’ employment: How do people choose their place of residence in Beijing, Cities, 93: 197-205.

  • Hao P and Tang S. (2018) Migration destinations in the urban hierarchy in China: Evidence from Jiangsu, Population, Space and Place 24(2) 1-14.

  • Hao P and Tang S. (2018) What keeps China’s floating population from moving? Chinese Journal of Sociology 4(1): 30-55.

  • Tang S and Hao P. (2018) Floaters, settlers, and returnees: Settlement intention and hukou conversion of China’s rural migrants, The China Review 18(1) 11-34.

  • Du H, Li S-M and Hao P. (2017) ‘Anyway you are an outsider’: Temporary migrants in urban China. Urban Studies 55(14): 3185-3201.

  • Tang S, Hao P and Huang X. (2016) Land conversion and urban settlement intention of the rural population in China: Case study of suburban Nanjing. Habitat International 51(1) 149-158.

  • Yang Z, Hao P, Liu W and Cai J. (2016) Peri-urban agricultural development in Beijing: Varied forms, innovative practices and policy implications. Habitat International 56(1) 222-234.

  • Hao P and Tang S. (2015) Floating or settling down: The effect of rural landholdings on the settlement intention of rural migrants in urban China. Environment and Planning A 47(9) 1979-1999.

  • Hao P. (2015) The effects of residential patterns and chengzhongcun housing on segregation in Shenzhen. Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(3) 308-330.

  • Lin Y, Hao P and Geertman S. (2015) A conceptual framework on modes of governance for the regeneration of Chinese ‘villages in the city’. Urban Studies 52(10) 1774-1790.

  • Yang Z, Hao P and Cai J. (2015) Economic clusters: A bridge between economic and spatial policies with a case of Beijing. Cities 42(2) 171-185.

  • Hao P, Geertman S, Hooimeijer P and Sliuzas R. (2013) Spatial analyses of the urban village development process in Shenzhen, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(6) 2177-2197.

  • Hao P, Hooimeijer P, Sliuzas R and Geertman S. (2013) What drives the spatial development of urban villages in China? Urban Studies 50(16) 3394-3411.

  • Hao P, Geertman S, Hooimeijer P and Sliuzas R. (2012) The land-use diversity in urban villages in Shenzhen. Environment and Planning A 44(11) 2742-2764.

  • Hao P, Sliuzas R and Geertman S. (2011) The development and redevelopment of urban villages in Shenzhen. Habitat International 35(2) 214-224.

  • Yeung HL and Hao P. (2024) Telecommuting amid Covid-19: The governmobility of work-from-home employees in Hong Kong. Cities 148: 104873.

  • Tang S and Hao P. (2023) Socioeconomic differentiation among food delivery workers in China: The case of Nanjing. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 2(4): 502-516.
Non peer-reviewed Publications
 
  • Hao P. (2022) Book Review: The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China by Nick R. Smith. China Information 36(2): 293-294.

  • Hao, P. (2021) Baishizhou: The life and death of Shenzhen’s largest urban village, in Karolina Bregula (Ed.) Exercises in Losing Control. pp. 25-35. Szczecin: Art Academy of Szczecin Press

  • Hao P. (2019) China’s urban housing: Past and present, in R. Yep, J. Wang and T. Johnson (Eds) Edward Elgar Handbook on Urban Development in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

  • Hao P. (2019) Spatial analysis, in T. Orum (Ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Hao P. (2016) The effects of residential pattern and chengzhongcun housing on segregation in Shenzhen, China, in K.W. Chan, S.J. He and S-M Li (Eds.) Mobility and Communities: Socio-Spatial Transformation in Chinese Cities. pp. 132-156. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis.

  • Hao P. (2015) Urban villages and the contestation of urban space: The case of Shenzhen, in D. Wang and S. He (Eds.) Mobility, Sociability and Wellbeing of Urban Living. pp. 93-110. Berlin: Springer.

  • Li S-M and Hao P. (2016) Socio-spatial differentiation of permanent residents and new immigrants from Mainland China, in S.Y.P. Choi and E. Fong (Eds.) Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong. pp. 52-81. London: Routledge.

  • Hao P. (2015) Urban villages and the contestation of urban space: The case of Shenzhen, in D.G. Wang and S.J. He (Eds.) Mobility, Sociability and Wellbeing of Urban Living. pp. 93-110. Berlin: Springer.

  • Hao P. (2015) Residential segregation and the spatial pattern of housing provision in post-reform Chinese cities: A case study of Shenzhen, in N. Moore-Cherry and M. Pineira-Mantinan (Eds.) Addressing Complex Urban Challenges: Social, Economic and Cultural Transformations in the City. pp. 111-127. Santiago de Compostela: University of Santiago de Compostela.

  • Hao P. (2014) Spatial development patterns and trends of ‘villages in the city’ in Shenzhen, in K. Shannon, B. De Meulder and Y. Lin (Eds.) Village in the City: Asian Variations of Urbanisms of Inclusion. pp. 66-69. Zürich: Park Books.

  • Hao P, Geertman S, Hooimeijer P and Sliuzas R. (2013) Spatial evolution of urban villages in Shenzhen, in F.L. Wu, F. Zhang and C. Webster (Eds.) Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism. pp. 202-219. London: Routledge.

  • Hao P. (2012) Spatial Evolution of Urban Villages in Shenzhen. Utrecht: Utrecht University. ISBN: 978-90-6266-295-1.

  • Hao P, Sliuzas R and Geertman S. (2010) Race against planning: Unplanned urban space in Shenzhen, in M. Provoost (Ed.) New Towns for the 21st Century: The Planned vs. the Unplanned City. pp. 186-195. Amsterdam: SUN Publishers.

  • Hao P. (2022) Book Review: The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China by Nick R. Smith. China Information 36(2): 293-294.