Weiping Wu
{{Short description|Columbia University Professor and China Urban Specialist}}
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| name = Weiping Wu
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| alt = Wu speaking into a microphone.
| caption = Wu at GSAPP in 2016
| native_name = 吴维平
| native_name_lang = lang-zh
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| occupation = Urbanist
| title = Professor
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| education = Tsinghua University
| alma_mater = Rutgers University
| discipline = Urban planner
| sub_discipline = {{hlist|Urbanization|migration|comparative studies}}
| workplaces = Columbia GSAPP
Tufts University
Virginia Commonwealth University
| main_interests = Urban development and urbanization in China
| notable_works = The Chinese City (2012)
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Weiping Wu ({{lang-zh|吴维平}}) is a China urban specialist and Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she directs the Urban Planning program.{{Cite web|url=https://archinect.com/news/article/149956391/columbia-gsapp-names-weiping-wu-director-of-urban-planning-program|title=Columbia GSAPP names Weiping Wu Director of Urban Planning Program|website=Archinect|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19}} In January 2022, she was appointed interim dean and served until August.{{Cite web |last=Bollinger |first=Lee C. |date=November 10, 2021 |title=Weiping Wu Appointed Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation {{!}} Office of the President |url=https://president.columbia.edu/news/weiping-wu-appointed-interim-dean-graduate-school-architecture-planning-and-preservation |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=president.columbia.edu}} She became the Vice Provost for Academic Programs at Columbia in September 2023.{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Dennis A. |date=August 3, 2023 |title=Weiping Wu Appointed Vice Provost for Academic Programs {{!}} Office of the Provost |url=https://provost.columbia.edu/news/weiping-wu-vice-provost-academic-programs |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=provost.columbia.edu}}
Wu was appointed as the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) from Fall 2017 through Fall 2019,{{Cite web|url=http://www.acsp.org/page/ACSPGoverningBoard|title=ACSP Governing Board|website=Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19}} and was editor of ACSP's Journal of Planning Education and Research from 2008 to 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://weai.columbia.edu/weiping-wu/|title=Weiping Wu|website=Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19}}
Education
Wu holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University, and a master's degree in Urban Planning and a bachelor's degree in Architecture from Tsinghua University (China).{{Cite web|url=https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/515-weiping-wu|title=Weiping Wu - Columbia GSAPP|website=Columbia GSAPP|language=en|access-date=2018-02-19}}
Academic life
Wu is a Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Before joining Columbia University in 2016, she was Professor and Chair in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Appointments-Resignations/237155|title=Appointments, Resignations, Deaths|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=17 July 2016 |language=en|access-date=2018-02-19}} She is also on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia.
Publications
- 2012 The Chinese City, Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz, Routledge {{ISBN| 978-0415575751}}
- “Migrant Housing in Urban China: Choices and Constraints.” Urban Affairs Review 38, no. 1 (September 2002): 90–119. https://doi.org/10.1177/107808702401097817.
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