Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Geography, and Planning

PhD, Rutgers University, 1996
MA, Tsinghua University, 1989
BA, Tsinghua University, 1986

Email - wwu@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.3413
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm. 302
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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Dr. Weiping Wu has a joint appointment in the School of World Studies and L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. She teaches courses on comparative urban development and policy, spatial dynamics of the global economy, and research methods. She has been a consultant to the World Bank, and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the Ford Foundation. Dr. Wu conducts research and publishes widely in the areas of urban economic geography, migrant housing and settlement, and China's urban development. She has (co)authored and co-edited four books, including Pioneering Economic Reform in China's Special Economic Zones, The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities, Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World, and Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development. She has published more than 20 journal articles and book chapters as well.