Yue Gong

About

Professor (Tenured) at School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China. His research interests include migration, housing, communities, and urban AI. He used to work at HOK New York and Peking University, and has led more than 10 national and provincial research projects, including the grand of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Ministry of Education of China (MEC) Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Fund. He has published more than 40 papers in Top journals (e.g., Urban Geography, PSP, EGE, Housing Studies) and a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a member of China Real Estate Young and Middle-aged Scholars 30 Forum (CREs30) and Shenzhen Peacock Plan Talent. The projects he has led and participated in have won the first prize of Excellent Survey and Design Selection of the Ministry of Education, China and the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Platinum Award.

Employment

• Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
  2014 - Present
• Wuhan University Professor

Education

• Harvard University Master
  2003 - 2005
• University of Washington Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning

Projects & Funding

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Publications (15)

• How are decisions made to move to China? An analysis of information and migration via Google Trends
  Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 2025 DOI: 10.1177/27541223251367866
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• The gilded cage: Technology, development, and state capitalism in China , by Ya-Wen Lei
  Journal of Urban Affairs 2025 DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2024.2419322
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• Retrofitting urbanising villages and tenants’ residential satisfaction: a case study of Shenzhen, China
  Housing Studies 2025 DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2445802
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• Homelessness and migration: The geography of homeless migrants in China
  Population, Space and Place 2025 DOI: 10.1002/psp.2854
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• China urbanizing: Impacts and transitions , edited by Weiping Wu and Qin Gao China urbanizing: Impacts and transitions , edited by Weiping Wu and Qin Gao, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022
  Journal of Urban Affairs 2024 DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2204003
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• Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities
  Applied Geography 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103227
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• Planner-led collaborative governance and the urban form of urban villages in redevelopment: The case of Yangji Village in Guangzhou, China
  Cities 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104521
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• Social networks and drivers of highly skilled migration: The case of Shenzhen City in China
  Population, Space and Place 2023 DOI: 10.1002/psp.2683
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• Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen
  Urban Geography 2023 DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.2021368
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• China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders
  Cities 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103960
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