PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Lei WANG 

Position: Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Postal Address: 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China

Telephone: +86-25-86882289 (office)

E-mail: wanglei@niglas.ac.cn

Education

Ph.D. in Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2014

MPhil in Human Geography, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011

B.A. in Urban and Rural Planning, Northwest A& F University, 2008  

Employment

06/2021–now, Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, CAS

09/2019–06/2021, Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, CAS

09/2019–08/2019, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester

09/2016–09/2019, Hallsworth Research Fellow, Manchester Urban Institute University of Manchester

06/2015–09/2018, Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, CAS

08/2014–05/2015, Research Associate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

08/2011–07/2014, Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

My research interests mainly include spatial development and its sustainable challenges in the process of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. My research analysis tends to use eastern China as the empirical test bed to analyse the dynamic process of changes. Specifically, I examine the impact of High-speed rail development on urban and regional restructuring, changing regional and urban governance in the context of economic globalization and rapid urbanisation.

SELECTED PUBLICATION 

Wang L. 2019. Changing Spatial Elements in Chinese Socio-economic Five-year Plan: From Project layout to Spatial Planning. Springer, Singapore, 1-183.

Wang, L., Acheampong, R. A., & He, S. (2020). High-speed rail network development effects on the growth and spatial dynamics of knowledge-intensive economy in major cities of China. Cities, 105, 102772

Wang, L. & X. Duan (2018) High-speed rail network development and winner and loser cities in megaregions: The case study of Yangtze River Delta, China. Cities. 83, 71-82.

Wang, L. (2018) High-speed rail services development and regional accessibility restructuring: The case of the Yangtze River Delta, China. Transport Policy. 72, 34-44.

Wang, L., F. Yuan & X. Duan (2018) How high-speed rail service development influenced commercial land market dynamics: A case study of Jiangsu province, China. Journal of Transport Geography. 72, 248-257.

Wang, L. & J. Shen (2017) The Challenge of Spatial Plan Coordination in Urban China: The Case of Suzhou City. Urban Policy and Research, 35, 180-198.

Wang, L., C. Wong & X. Duan (2016) Urban growth and spatial restructuring patterns: The case of Yangtze River Delta Region, China. Environment and Planning B, 43, 515-539.

Wang, L. & J. Shen (2016) Spatial planning and its implementation in provincial China: a case study of the Jiangsu region along the Yangtze River plan. Journal of Contemporary China, 25, 669-685.