Weiping Wu

I am a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University and a senior fellow in the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School. Previously, I was a professor of urban studies and planning and international studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Born and bred in China, I spent eight years at Tsinghua University getting my bachelor's and master's degrees, and then another seven years for my Ph.D. from Rutgers University. My research is concerned with how migration affects the socio-spatial reconfiguration of cities, how planning and policy influence cities’ economic vitality and infrastructure building, and how higher education transfers knowledge and innovation to industry. Between 2008 and 2012, I was an editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the flagship journal of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (U.S.).