Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China: New Housing Opportunities for Migrant Workers

Ran Liu is Associate Professor at the College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds an M.A. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Her research interests include the urban village (chengzhongcun), low-income housing policy, land reform, China's urbanization and migration issues.

Her research on urban village redevelopment won the 2018 "Case Study Award" from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC No. 42071201, 41701188), the Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 16YJCZH060), and the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program and the Social Science Research Key Program of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No. SZ202010028016).

She has published in international peer-reviewed journals (including Environment and Planning A, Cities, Habitat International, Applied Geography, Urban Policy and Research, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, etc.). She has also published the monograph Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China (Springer, 2015) and chapters in the book The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society (Routledge, 2020) and Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (Springer, 2015).

劉然是中國北京首都師範大學資源環境與旅遊學院的副教授。她擁有新加坡南洋理工大學人文地理學博士學位，以及中國科學院的碩士學位。她的研究興趣包括城中村、低收入住房政策、土地改革、中國的城市化和移民問題。

她的城中村改造研究獲得了2018年林肯土地政策研究所的「案例研究獎」。該研究得到了中國國家自然科學基金會（NSFC No. 42071201, 41701188）、中國教育部人文社會科學基金（No. 16YJCZH060）、北京市哲學社會科學規劃項目和北京市教育委員會社會科學研究重點項目（No. SZ202010028016）的支持。

她在國際同行評審期刊（包括《環境與規劃A》、《城市》、《國際棲息地》、《應用地理》、《城市政策與研究》、《亞太視角》等）上發表過文章。她還出版了專著《中國北京市農民工空間流動》（Springer，2015）以及在《亨利·勒菲弗、城市和城市社會的羅特利奇手冊》（Routledge，2020）和《中國人口流動、城市規劃與管理》（Springer，2015）等書籍中的章節。