Can Cui

2013 ~            Professor, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University

2016 ~ 2022   Professor, School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University

2015 ~ 2018   Assistant Researcher (part-time), Urbanization Research Institute, Sun Yat-Sen University

2015 ~ 2016   Pollman Postdoc Fellow, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University

Can Cui is a professor in the School of Geographic Sciences at East China Normal University (ECNU). She graduated from the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning of Utrecht University in 2015. Her doctoral research investigated skilled migrants’ housing behaviour in post-reform Chinese cities. Prior to joining ECNU, she worked as Pollman Fellow at Graduate School of Design in Harvard University. Her major research interests include housing, migration, and socio-spatial inequalities. Her work has been published in journals such as Urban Studies, Housing Studies, and Environment and Planning A.

Assistent of Dean, Institute for Talent Development Strategy, ECNU

Member of China's Real estate 30 young scholars forum

Committee member of the association of Spatial Planning, Chinese Society of Natural Resources

Housing Studies; Migration; Social-spatial inequality; Urban geography; GIS; the application of GIS to urban studies

Population Geography

Academic writing in Human Geography

Research design and writing

Yangtze River Delta Region

Shanghai Field Course

Cui C.*, Yu S., Chen J. and Li J. (2024?). How home buyers finance their homeownership in post-reform urban China? Changing dynamics of variegated financial pathways. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2189865 

 Qiang Wang, Can Cui*, Chengyuan Yu, Yifan Wang. (2023). From domicile to university to work: the sequential migration of young educated people in the context of the battle for talent in China. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(6), 92

Mu X., Cui C.*, Cui J. (2023). Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants’ homeownership. Population, Space and Place, 29(5), e2663. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2663 

Lu T.T., Cui C.*, Cai, Y.N. and Li Z.Y. (2023). Homeownership-based segregation and urban amenity differentiation in Shanghai. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 16(4), 1417-1441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-023-09516-z 

Cui C.*, Yu S. and Huang Y.Q. (2023), His house, her house? Gender inequality and homeownership among married couples in urban China. Cities, 134, 104187. 

Cui J.R., Cui C.*, Mu X.Y. and Hao P. (2022). Home in the big city: Does place of origin affect homeownership among the post-80s in Shanghai? Housing Studies, 37(9), 1546-1565. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853070 

Mu X., Cui C.*, Xu W. and Cui J. (2022). Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin. Urban Studies, 59(13), 2695-2718. DOI: 10.1177/00420980211040947

Ye, C., Schröder, P., Yang, D., Chen, M.*, Cui, C., & Zhuang, L.* (2022). Toward healthy and liveable cities: a new framework linking public health to urbanization. Environmental Research Letters, 17, 064035

Cui C.*, Wang Y., Wang, Q. (2022). The interregional migration of human capital: The case of first-class university graduates in China. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 15(2), 397-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09401-7 

Yu S., Cui C.* (2021). Difference in housing finance usage and its impact on housing wealth inequality in urban China. Land, 10(12), 1404. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121404 

Cui J.R., Cui C.*, Ronald R., Yu S. and Mu X.Y. (2021). The dynamics of gender in the intergenerational transmission of  homeownership: A case study of young couples in Shanghai. Population, Space and Place, 27(6), e2428. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2428 

Cui C., Deng W.J. and Lu T.T.* (2021).  Pathways to homeownership in urban China: Transitions and generational fractures. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36(1), 9-27. DOI: 10.1007/s10901-019-09664-0 

Cui C., Wu X.L., Liu L. and Zhang W.Y.* (2020). The spatial-temporal dynamics of daily intercity mobility in the Yangtze River Delta: An analysis using big data. Habitat International, 106, 102174.DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102174

Cui C., Huang Y.Q. and Wang F. L.* (2020). A relay race: intergenerational transmission of housing inequality in urban China. Housing Studies, 35(6), 1088-1109. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648771 

Cui C.* (2020). Housing career disparities in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and locals in Nanjing. Urban Studies, 57(3), 546-562. DOI: 10.1177/0042098018800443 

Liu Y., Dijst M., Jan F, Geertman S. and Cui C.* (2017). Healthy urban living: Residential environment and health of older adults in Shanghai.Health & Place, 47C, 80-89. 

Liu Y., Dijst M., Geertman S., Cui, C*. (2017). Social sustainability in an ageing Chinese society: Towards an integrative conceptual framework. Sustainability, 9, 658. 

Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2016). The mediating effects of parental and peer pressure on the migration intentions of university graduates in Nanjing. Habitat International, 57, 100-109. 

Cui C., Wang J.*, Wu Z., Ni J. and Qian T. (2016). The socio-spatial distribution of leisure venues: A case study of karaoke bars in Nanjing, China. International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(9), 150; doi: 10.3390/ijgi5090150 

 Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2016). Access to homeownership in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and skilled locals in Nanjing. Cities, 50, 188-196.

 Wang J.*, Ni H., Rui Y., Cui C. and Cheng L. (2016). A WebGIS-based teaching assistant system for geography field practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(2), 279-293. 

Cui C.*, Hooimeijer P., Geertman S. and Pu Y. (2015). Residential distribution of the emergent class of skilled migrants in Nanjing. Housing Studies, 30(8), 1235-1256. 

Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2015). Residential mobility of skilled migrants in Nanjing, China. Environment and Planning A, 47(3), 625-642. 

Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2014). The intra-urban distribution of skilled migrants: Case studies of Shanghai and Nanjing. Habitat International, 44, 1-10.

Wang J.*, Cui C., Rui Y., Cheng L., Pu Y., Wu W. and Yuan Z. (2013). A parallel algorithm for constructing Voronoi diagrams based on point-set adaptive grouping. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 26(2), 434-446. 

Cui C., Wang J.*, Pu Y., Ma J. and Chen G. (2012). GIS-based method of delimitating trade area for retail chains.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26(10), 1863-1879.