Publications

Publication list

Altrock, U., Waibel, M. (2008): Between Competitiveness and Efficiency – Metropolitan Governance as a tool to improve cooperation in mega-urban regions? Experiences from the German debate. In: Planning and Development (Annual Journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners), 23 (No. 1), pp. 29-43 [online access]

Altrock, U., Schoon, S. (2011): The Governance of Urban Upgrading in Southern China – The Example of Urbanized Villages. In: DISP 187, 4/2011, pp. 37-48

Altrock, U., Schoon, S. (2014): Urban villages as local economic clusters: The case of Zhongda cloth market in Guangzhou. In: Wu, F., Zhang, F., Webster, C.(Eds.): , pp. 182-201, Abingdon

Azzam, R., Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Lu, L., Wiethoff, K., Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R. (2013): Water quality and socio-ecological vulnerability regarding urban development in selected case stud-ies of megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Kraas, F., Aggarwal, S., Coy, M., Mertins, G.(Eds.): Megacities. Our global urban future, International Year of Planet Earth, pp. 33-58, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer

Baier, K., Real, A., Strohschön, R., Azzam, R. (2009): Ansätze eines alternativen Wassermanagementkonzepts für mega urbane Räume am Beispiel der südchinesischen Megastadt Guangzhou. In: UmweltWirtschaftsForum, 17 (3), pp. 281-289 [online access]

Baier, K., Schmitz, K., Azzam, R., Strohschön, R. (2014): Management tools for sustainable groundwater protection in mega urban areas – small scale land use and groundwater vulnerability analyses in the South-Chinese megacity Guangzhou. In: Int’l Journal of Environmental Research, 8 (2), pp. 249-262

Baumgart, S., Kreibich, V. (2011): Informal Urbanization - Historical and Geographical Perspectives. In: disP , 187 (4) [online access]

Baur, M., Gransow, B., Jin, Y. (2007): Labour Mobility in Urban China: An Integrated Labour Market in the Making?. In: Labour Mobility in Urban China: An Integrated Labour Market in the Making? [online access]

Becker, M., Waibel, M., Altrock, U. (2007): Wirtschaftliche Sonderzonen als Ausgangspunkt zur Erklärung der Entwicklung der megaurbanen Region Perlflussdelta in China - Diskussion einer empirischen Operationalisierung anhand von "modes of governance". In: Pacific News, July/August 2007 (No. 1), pp. 26-31 [online access]

Beisswenger, S., Bork, T., Kilian, P. (2008): Perlflussdelta: Vom Dreistromland zur megaurbanen Region. Wanderungsbewegungen und Stadtentwicklungen im Süden Chinas. In: Scinexx of February 29th [online access]

Beisswenger, S., Bork, T., Kilian, P. (2008): Perlflussdelta: Vom Dreistromland zur megaurbanen Region. Wanderungsbewegungen und Stadtentwicklungen im Süden Chinas [Migration and Urban Development in the Pearl River Delta, China]., [online access]

Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R. (2010): A psychological – geographical approach to vulnerability: the example of a Chinese urban development project from the perspective of the transactional stress model. In: Environment and Planning A, 42 (7), pp. 1705 – 1722

Bercht, A. (2013): Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image building and city development through entrepreneurial governance. In: Geographica Helvetica, 68 (2), pp. 129-138 [online access]

Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R. (2011): Urban restructuring processes in Guangzhou/China – the significance of emotion-focussed coping. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 99 (1), pp. 50-64

Birkmann, J., Garschagen, M., Kraas, F., Quang, N. (2010): Adaptive urban governance: new challenges for the second generation of urban adaptation strategies to climate change. In: Sustainability Science. Springerlink. [online access]

Bork, T., Kraas, F., Yuan, Y. (2011): Governance challenges in China's urban health care system - The role of stakeholders.. In: Erdkunde, 65 (2), pp. 121-135 [online access]

Bork, T., Kraas, F., Xue, D., Li, Z. (2011): Urban Environmental Health challenges in China’s Villages-in-the-city. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 99 (1), pp. 16-35

Bork, T., Gransow, B., Kraas, F., Yuan, Y. (2011): Marketization and Informalization of Health Care Services in Mega-urban China. In: Krämer, K., Kraas, .(Eds.): Health in Megacities and Urban Areas, pp. 173-188

Bork, T., Kilian, P., Sterly, H. (2009): Informalität in Megastädten. Das Beispiel der megaurbanen Region Perflussdelta, China. In: Praxis Geographie, 39 (7-8), pp. 28-32 [online access]

Bork-Hüffer, T., Rafflenbeul, B., Kraas, F., Li, Z. (2014): Global Change, National Development Goals, Urbanization and International Migration in China. The Example of African Migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan. In: Kraas, A., Coy, M.(Eds.): Megacities – Our Global Urban Future

Bork-Hüffer, T. (accepted for publication): Transformation und Stadtentwicklung in China: alte und neue Risiken für die Gesundheit [Transition and Urbanization in China: Old and New Health Risks]. In: Passauer Kontaktstudium Geographie 2012

Bork-Hüffer, T., Kraas, F. (2015): Health Care Disparities in Megaurban China: The Ambivalent Role of Unregistered Practitioners. In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 106 (3), pp. 339-352

Bork-Hüffer, T., Etzold, B., Gransow, B., Tomba, L., Sterly, H., Suda, K., Kraas, F., Flock, R. (2016): Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Population, Space and Place 22, pp. 128-145

Breitung, W. (2011): Borders and the city – Intra-urban boundaries in Guangzhou (China). In: Quaestiones Geographicae, 30 (4), pp. 55-61

Breitung, W. (2012): Enclave urbanism in China. Attitudes towards gated communities in Guangzhou. In: Urban Geography, 33 (2), pp. 278-294

Breitung, W. (2014): Differentiated neighbourhood governance in transitional urban China. Comparative study of two housing estates in Guangzhou. In: YIP, N.(Eds.): Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China, pp. 145-166, Edward Elgar

Burkart, K., Grübner, O., Khan, M., Staffeld, R. (2008): Megacity Dhaka - Informal Settlements, Urban Environment and Public Health. In: Geographische Rundschau, International Edition, 4 (1), pp. 4-11 [online access]

Butsch, C., Kroll, M., Bork, T. (2010): The Megaurban Health Challenge – Examples from India and China. In: Geographische Rundschau International , 6 (2), pp. 20-25

Butsch, C., Kroll, M., Bork, T. (2010): The Megaurban Health Challenge ? Examples from India and China.. In: Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 6 (2/2010), pp. 20-25 [online access]

Changqing, Q., Kreibich, V., Baumgart, S. (2007): Informal Elements in Urban Growth Regulation in China - Urban Villages in Ningbo. In: Asien, 103, pp. 23-44 [online access]

Endlicher, W., Jendritzky, G., Fischer, J., Redlich, J. (2006): Heat Waves, Urban Climate and Human Health. In: Wang, W., Krafft, T., Kraas, F.(Eds.): Global Change, Urbanization and Health, pp. 103-114, Beijing, China Meteorological Press

Etzold, B. (2011): Hunger in der Stadt. Die Auswirkungen der Nahrungsmittelkrise in Dhaka auf urbane Armutsgruppen. In: GIZ-Brief, 2011 (2), pp. 31-33 [online access]

Etzold, B., Keck, M. (2009): Politics of Space in the Megacity Dhaka: Negotiation of Rules in Contested Urban Arenas. In: UGEC Update, 2009 (2), pp. 13-15 [online access]

Etzold, B. (2008): Street Food in the Megacity Dhaka: How can we conceptualize its role within the megaurban food system. In: UNU-EHS SOURCE, 2008 (10) [online access]

Feng, D., Breitung, W., Zhu, H. (2015): Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou. In: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55 (4), pp. 381-403

Fokdal, J., Herrle, P. (2010): Negotiated Space: Urban Villages in the Pearl River Delta. In: Trialog, 2010 (102/10), pp. 10-15

Fokdal, J. (2014): Embodiment of the urban. Relational space in the context of the megacity of Guangzhou.. In: Dr.-Ing., Technische Universität Berlin

Fokdal, J., Herrle, P. (2019): Guangzhou: less contestations, more negotiations. A multi-scalar understanding of the 'politics of informal urbanization' in southern China.. In: Rocco, R., van Ballegooijen, J.(Eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization, pp. 87-98, London, Routledge

Flock, R., Breitung, W. (2016): Migrant street vendors in urban China and the social creation of public space. In: Population, Space and Place, 22 (2), pp. 158-169

FU, Q., REN, Q. (2010): Educational inequality under China's rural-urban divide: the hukou system and return to education. In: Environment and Planning A, 42, pp. 592-610 [online access]

Gransow, B. (2010): Body as Armor. Health Risks and Health Consciousness among Rural Migrants in Urban China. In: Migrants and Health in China. . In: Gransow, B., Zhou, D.(Eds.): Migrants and Health in China, 38(9-27), Münster, Lit Verlag

Gransow, B. (2011): “Migrant Communities and Social Change in Chinese Megacities: Slum Formation or Urban Innovation?”. In: Bade, K., Lorentz, B., Pries, L.(Eds.): Migration and Integration. Reflections on Our Common Future, pp. 65-97, Leipzig, Europäische Verlagsanstalt

Gransow, B. (2012): Contested Urbanization in China: Exploring Informal Spaces of Migrants-in-the-City. In: Harvard Asia Quarterly, XIV, pp. 12-24

Gransow, B. (2013): Migrant Communities,Informality and the Challenge of Urban Redevelopment.. In: Catak, N., Duyan, E., Secer, S.(Eds.): Chinese Megacities, Rethinking the Urban, pp. 247-258, Istanbul, Dakam Publishing

Gransow, B. (2014): Urbanisation, Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Housing in China. In: Kerry, B.(Eds.): The EU-China Relationship: European Perspectives. A Manual for Policy Makers, pp. 65-97, London, Imperial College Press

Gransow, B. (2015): Sustaining Livelihoods in Urban Villages: Health Risks and Health Strategies Among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China – the Case of Guangzhou. In: Rural Livelihoods in China. Political Economy in Transition, pp. 74-92

Gransow, B. (2016): Labour Rights and Beyond—How Migrant Worker NGOs Negotiate Urban Spaces in the Pearl River Delta. In: Population, Space and Place, pp. 185-198

Gransow, B. (2019): Bewitched by the History behind the Walls” – Robert Park and the Arc of Urban Sociology from Chicago to China. In: Forrest, R., Ren, J., Wissink, B.(Eds.): The City in China: New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism

Gransow, B., Hackenbroch, K. (2019): 3.2.3 Urban Restructuring: Forced Inner-City Mobility of Rural Migrants. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Mega Cities. Mega Challenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 82-85, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers

Grübner, O., Staffeld, R., Khan, M., Burkart, K., Krämer, A., Hostert, P. (2011): Urban health in megacities: extending the framework for developing countries. In: IHDP update (Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change), 1, pp. 40-49 [online access]

Grübner, O. (2011): A spatial epidemiological approach on well-being in urban slums - evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dissertation Thesis, HU Berlin [online access]

Hackenbroch, K., Baumgart, S., Kreibich, V. (2009): The Spatiality of Livelihoods: Urban Public Space as an Asset for the Livelihoods of the Urban Poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 47-68 [online access]

Hackenbroch, K. (2013): Negotiating public space for livelihoods: about risks, uncertainty and power in the urban poor’s everyday life . In: Erdkunde, 67 (1), pp. 37-47 [online access]

Hackenbroch, K. (2010): No Security for the Urban Poor - Contested Space in Low-income Settlements in Dhaka. In: Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 6 (2), pp. 44-49 [online access]

HE, S., LIU, Y., WU, F., Webster, C. (2010): Social groups and housing differentiation in China’s urban villages: An institutional interpretation. In: Housing Studies, pp. 1466-1810

Herrle, P., Ipsen, D., Nebel, S., Weichler, H. (2008): Wie Bauern die mega-urbane Landschaft in Südchina prägen. Zur Rolle der "Urban Villages" bei der Entwicklung des Perlflussdeltas. In: Geographische Rundschau, 60 (11), pp. 38-46 [online access]

Herrle, P., Fokdal, J. (2011): Urban Informality Discourse: Negotiating Power, Legitimacy and Resources. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 90 (1), pp. 3-15

Herrle, P., Fokdal, J., Ipsen, D. (2014): Beyond Urbanism. Urban(izing) villages and the Mega-urban Landscape in the Pearl River Delta in China, Münster, Lit Verlag

Ipsen, D. (2007): High speed Urbanization. In: South China Review, No. 1 (January), pp. 22-27

Ipsen, D. (2009): Peasants and the Genesis of Mega-Urban Landscapes. In: Topos. The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design: Landscape Strategies., 66, pp. 104-105

Jahn, H., Khan, M., Krämer, A. (2010): Megaurbanisation and public health research - theoretical dimensions. In: Health in megacities and urban areas [online access]

Khan, M., Krämer, A., Grübner, O. (2009): Comparison of Health-Related Outcomes between Urban Slums, Urban Affluent and Rural Areas in and around Dhaka Megacity, Bangladesh. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 69-92 [online access]

Khan, M., Grübner, O., Krämer, A. (2012): Frequently used healthcare services in urban slums of Dhaka and adjacent rural areas and their determinants. In: Journal of Public Health, 34 (2), pp. 261-271 [online access]

Khan, M., Krämer, A. (2009): Factors associated with being underweight, overweight and obese among ever-married non-pregnant urban women in Bangladesh. In: Singapore Med J, 50 (8), pp. 804-813 [online access]

Kilian, P., Beisswenger, S., Xue, D. (2010): Floating or settling down? Migrant workers and mega-urban development in the Pearl River Delta, China. In: Geographische Rundschau International Edition , 6 (2), pp. 50-56 [online access]

Kluge, F., Krause, C., Stützel, V., Wiethoff, K. (2009): Research and Teaching in the Context of Global Urbanisation. In: Conference-Proceedings of the ECLAS-Conference 2008, New Landscapes - New Lives, New Challenges in Landscape Planning, Design and Management, September 11-14 2008 in Alnarp, Sweden. In: Conference-Proceedings of the ECLAS-Conference 2008, New Landscapes - New Lives, New Challenges in Landscape Planning, Design and Management, pp. 299-308

Kraas, F. (2005): Megacities: Urban Dynamics of Global Change,

Kraas, F., Nitschke, U. (2006): Megastädte als Motoren globalen Wandels. Neue Herausforderungen weltweiter Urbanisierung. In: Internationale Politik, 61 (11), pp. 18-28

Kraas, F. (2007): Weltweite Urbanisierungsprozesse und aktuelle Entwicklungsdynamik in den Städten, Metropolen und Megastädten der Entwicklungsländer. In: Böhn, D., Rothfuß, E.(Eds.): Entwicklungsländer I. Handbuch des Geographieunterrichts, 8(I), pp. 155-163, Köln

Kraas, F. (2008): Megacities - our global urban future. In: Derbyshire, E.(Eds.): The International Year of Planet Earth, pp. 108-109, London

Kraas, F., Hansjürgens, B. (2008): Megacities – Urban Dynamics of Global Change. In: Böll, B., Mauser, W.(Eds.): Global Change Research in Germany 2008, pp. 21-22, Munich

Kraas, F., Nitschke, U. (2008): Megaurbanisierung in Asien: Entwicklungsprozesse und Konsequenzen stadträumlicher Reorganisation. In: Themenheft „Raum- und Stadtentwicklung in Asien“. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung , 2008 (8), pp. 447-456

Kraas, F. (2010): Stadt und Land im Fluss: Lebensräume. Transformationsprozesse im „urban fringe“ der Megastädte Asiens. In: a.r.t.e.s-Jahrbuch (10/2008-02/2010). A.r.t.e.s. Forschungsschule der Universität zu Köln, pp. 86-93

Kraas, F. (2010): Urbanisierung als weltweite Herausforderung. In: Debiel, T., et al., .(Eds.): Globale Trends 2010. Frieden, Entwicklung, Umwelt. Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, pp. 181-199, Frankfurt [online access]

Kraas, F., Aggarwal, S., Coy, M., Mertins, G. (2014): Megacities – Our global urban future, Heidelberg, Springer

Kraas, F. (2015): Urbanisierung und Megastädte in Entwicklungsländern. In: Amelung, A., Fugger, C.(Eds.): Entwicklungspolitik auf dem Prüfstand. Stellschrauben für Post-2015 Development Goals, pp. 41-44, Köln

Kraas, F., Kroll, M. (2015): Urbane Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit. In: Universitas, 70 (834), pp. 4-29

Kraas, F., Bork-Hüffer, T. (2012): Urbanisierung und internationale Migration: Versuch einer Standortbestimmung [Urbanization and International Migration: An Attempt to Identify of the State-of-the-art]. In: Kraas, F., Bork, T.(Eds.): Urbanisierung und internationale Migration [Urbanization and International Migration]. Eine Welt 25, pp. 13-30

Krämer, A., Khan, M., Jahn, H. (2010): Public health in megacities and the urban areas: a conceptual framework. In: Health in megacities and urban areas [online access]

Krämer, A., Khan, M., Kraas, F. (2011): Health in Megacities and Urban Areas, New York, Springer

Kreibich, V. (2010): The invisible hand - Informal urbanisation in major cities in Tanzania. In: Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 6 (2), pp. 38-43 [online access]

Kreibich, V. (2010): The mode of informal urbanisation - Reconciling social and statutory regulation in urban land management. In: McFarlane, C., Waibel, M.(Eds.): Urban informality in a globalising world: Reflections on the formal and informal, Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell (IJURR, Studies in Urban and Social Change) (forthcoming)

Liao, K., Breitung, W., Zhang, H. (2012): Social segregation or integration? Gated communities: challenges and responses of urban planning and Design (in Chinese). In: China Urban Planning Annual Meeting, Proceedings, pp. 624-633

Liao, K. (2016): Debordering and rebordering processes in suburban Guangzhou. In: Kieler Geographische Schriften , 128

Liao, K., Breitung, W., Wehrhahn, R. (2018): Debordering and rebordering in the residential borderlands of suburban Guangzhou. In: Urban Geography, 39 (7), pp. 1092-1112

Liao, K., Wehrhahn, R., Breitung, W. (2018): Urban planners and the production of gated communities in China: A structure–agency approach. In: Urban Studies

LIU, Y., LI, Z., WU, F. (2010): Urban villages under China’s rapid urbanization: unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods. In: Habitat International, 34 (1), pp. 135-144

Liu, Y., Li, Z., Breitung, W. (2012): The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanised villages. A case study of Guangzhou. In: Habitat International, 36 (1), pp. 192-200

Lu, L., Baier, K. (2009): The analysis of urban land use types by multispectral satellite image, using the example of the megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Baier, K., Strohschön, R.(Eds.): Proceedings of Megacities - Interactions Between Land Use and Water Management. Mitteilungen zur Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie, 99, pp. 31-40, Aachen [online access]

Putra, D., Baier , K. (2008): Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater Recharge - The Example of the Indonesian Million City Yogyakarta. In: UN Habitat- United Nations Settlement Programs: Fourth session of the World Urban Forum, Nanjing, China, Documentations of Germany's Contribution to a Sustainable Urban Future [online access]

Schröder, F., Waibel, M. (2010): Urban Governance of Economic Upgrading Processes in China: The Case of Guangzhou Science City. In: Internationales Asienforum (International Quarterly for Asian Studies), 41 (1-2) [online access]

Schröder, F., Waibel, M. (2012): Urban Governance and Informality in China: Investigating Economic Restructuring in Guangzhou. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 56, pp. 97-112

Schroeder, ., Waibel, . (2012): Urban governance and informality in Chinas Pearl River Delta. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 146-147, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers [online access]

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Azzam, R. (2009): Urban Units as an Analysis Tool for Mega-Urban Development. The Case of Guangzhou, China. In: Baier, K., Strohschön, R.(Eds.): Proceedings of Megacities – Interactions between Land Use and Water Management. Mitteilungen zur Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie, 99, pp. 63-72, Aachen [online access]

Strohschön, R., Baier, K. (2008): The Impact of Urbanization on Water Quality in Fast Growing Mega Cities in Asia. Case Studies from Guangzhou and Yogyakarta. In: Schriftreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 60 [online access]

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Azzam, R. (2009): Urban Units as an analysis tool for mega-urban development. The Case of Guangzhou, China. In: Klapperich, H., Jacob, D., Azzam, R., Wolf, R.(Eds.): CiF e.V. publication , 8, pp. 145-163, Freiberg: CiF e.V., Kompetenzzentrum für interdisziplinäres Flächenrecycling

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Post, C. (2010): The effects of formal and informal mega-urban development processes on water resources - case study area megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Zereini, F., Hashwa, F.(Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th environmental symposium of German-Arab scientific forum for environmental studies. Impact of global warming on water resources in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 32f.

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Romich, M., Azzam, R. (2011): Megaurbanisierung in China: Strukturen, Prozesse, Dynamiken und Auswirkungen der Stadtentwicklung auf die Wasserressourcen am Beispiel Guangzhou. In: Strohschön, R., Romich, M., Baier, K.(Eds.): Strukturen, Prozesse und Dynamiken der Mega-Urbanisierung in China – Landnutzung und Wasserressourcen. Aachener Studien zur Sozial-Ökonomischen Entwicklungsforschung, Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Zentrums für Vergleichende Sozial-Ökonomische Entwicklungsforschung (IZE) e.V., 11, pp. 5-24, Aachen: Shaker

Strohschön, R., Azzam, R., Baier, K. (2011): Mega-urbanization in Guangzhou – Effects on water quality and risks to human health. In: Krämer, A., Khan, M., Kraas, F.(Eds.): Health in megacities and urban areas (Contributions to Statistics), pp. 221-229, Berlin, Heidelberg: Physica, A Springer Company

Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K., Lu, L., Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R., Azzam, R. (2013): Land use and water quality in Guangzhou, China: a survey of ecological and social vulnerability in four urban units of a rapidly developing megacity. In: Int’l Journal of Environmental Research , 7 (2), pp. 343-358

Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K., Azzam, R. (2019): Urban (infra-) structures and informal groundwater uses. . In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Mega Cities Mega Challenges. Informal dynamics of global change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 113-116, Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers

Suda, K. (2012): Yizu – „Das Ameisenvolk“. Zur urbanen Informalität und sozialen Mobilität von Hochschulabsolventen in prekären Lebensverhältnissen . In: Adolphi, W.(Eds.): Schönes Neues China, Das Argument, 296, pp. 167-179

Suda, K. (2017): Urban welfare and social justice: individual perspectives of highly-educated rural-to-urban migrants in the city of Guangzhou. In: Carillo, B., Hood, J., Kadetz, P.(Eds.): Handbook of Welfare in China, pp. 223-251, Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton, MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing

Suda, K. (2019): 3.2.4. Up or Stuck on the Social Ladder? Highly Educated Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Claim to Social Mobility and Urban Space. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Mega Cities. Mega Challenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 85-86, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers

Tomba, L. (2010): Gating urban spaces in China: Inclusion, exclusion and government. In: Uduku, O., Bagaeen, S.(Eds.): Gated communities: Social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments(Sterling, VA), pp. 27-38

Tomba, L. (2012): Awakening the God of Earth - Land, place and class in urbanizing Guangdong. In: Carillo, B., Goodman, D.(Eds.): Workers and peasants in the transformation of urban China, pp. 40-61, Edward Elgar

Tomba, L. (2014): The government next door. Neighbourhood politics in urban China,

Tomba, L. (2017): Finding China's urban: Bargaining land conversation, local assemblages and fragmanted urbanization. In: Shue, V., Thornton, P.(Eds.): To govern China - Evolving practices of power, pp. 203ff, Cambridge University Press

Waibel, M., Schröder, F. (2011): The Interplay of Innovative Urban Planning Approaches and Economic Upgrading in China: The Case of Guangzhou Mega-City. In: disP – The Planning Review, 187, pp. 49-58 [online access]

Waibel, M. (2008): Mega-Urban Growth, Informality and the Issue of Governability: Towards Theorising Specific Informal Dynamics in a Wider Context. In: Reviewed essay of a essay competition in the context of the conference: “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities”, Urban Planet Conference Series organized by the Irmgard-Coninx-Foundation in cooperation with the Humboldt-University and the WZB, 11 – 16 June 2008, Berlin [online access]

Wang, W., Krafft, T., Kraas, F. (2006): Global Change, Urbanization and Health. In: Global Change, Urbanization and Health

Wehrhahn, R., Bercht, A., Krause, C., Azzam, R., Kluge, F., Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K. (2008): Urban restructuring and social and water-related vulnerability in megacities – the example of the urban village of Xincún, Guangzhou (China). In: Die Erde, 139 (3), pp. 227-249 [online access]

Wehrhahn, R., Bercht, A. (2008): Konsequenzen der Weltmarktintegration für die mega-urbane Entwicklung in China. Das Beispiel Guangzhou/Perlflussdelta. In: Geographie und Schule, 173, pp. 19-27 [online access]

Wehrhahn, R., Haubricht, D. (2010): Megastädte im globalen Süden. Dynamik und Komplexität megaurbaner Räume mit Beispielen aus Lima und Guangzhou. In: Geographische Rundschau, 62 (10), pp. 30-37

Wiethoff, K., Baier, K. (2009): Megacities Areas in Transition. Abandoned Sites as an Expression of a Continuously Changing mega-urban landscape. In: Baier, K., Strohschön, R., Azzam, R.(Eds.): Proceedings of Megacities - Interactions Between Land Use and Water Management. Mitteilungen zur Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie, 99, pp. 83-92, Aachen [online access]

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