by Dr. Kang Wu (Capital University of Economics and Business)
Noon - 1:00. Room S153 CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
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Abstract: Functional Urban Area (FUAs) refers to the functional economic units, consisting of highly densely populated municipalities (urban cores) as well as any adjacent municipalities with high degree of economic integration with the urban cores, measured by social economic activity flows. In China for a long period of time, there is a gap between the urban administrative region and urban functional region, which caused a number of confusions in terms of the “cities” and “city-regions”. Due to the inconsistency of different urban statistics ranges, researchers often feel uncertainty about how to define an accurate city boundary and how to collect a data for urban studies. This talk aimed to introduce how to delineate a functional urban areas (FUAs) in a Chinese context by using available geographical open data.
Bio: Dr. Kang Wu is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis and an Associate Professor of urban economic geography and planning in the School of Urban Economics and Public Administration at Capital University of Economics and Business. Dr. Wu has a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a B.S. in Cartography and Geographic Information Science from Nanjing Normal University in China. Dr. Wu is the Associate Director of Beijing City Lab, and his research interests include polycentric city regions and urban networks in China, sustainable development of shrinking cities, Geo big data analysis and its application on urban studies. Dr. Wu has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and as a Principle Investigator in charge of five research grants, including Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education in China Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, etc.
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