Liu Zhilin is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests include urban planning and governance, affordable housing policy, and sustainable development. She is particularly interested in policy and governance issues that promote equity and sustainability of China’s rapid urbanization and development, and has published extensively in English and Chinese peer review journals. Her recent research projects include the following issues:

·  Understanding housing access and social integration of Chinese rural-to-urban migrants from a social capital perspective;

·  Assessing the impacts of government-funded housing programs on quality of life of low-income urban households;

·  Assessing the implementation of affordable housing policy and identifying key institutional barriers that have prevented more effective implementation;

·  Understanding planning and governance for sustainable urbanization in China, particularly related to the role of urban form on travel behaviors and travel-related CO2 emissions, as well as multi-level governance structure for low-carbon cities and sustainable cities in China.

Liu Zhilin received her Ph.D. in city and regional planning from Cornell University, USA, in August 2007. Since joining the faculty in public policy and management at Tsinghua, she has taught courses in research design, analytic methods, and urban development and planning for Ph.D., MPA, and MID students. She is also a nonresident fellow of the Brookings Institute based in the Brookings-Tsinghua Center, and a joint research fellow of the Lincoln Institute-Peking University Center for Urban Development and Land Policy.

【Courses】Research Design; Analytic Methods; Urban Development and Planning

【Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects】Urban Policy and Governance, Housing Policy, Urban Social Geography, Sustainable Development, New Institutionalism Theory