The project will provide a comparative study of indigenous community planning and governance in the periurban Regions of China, Canada and Australia. Based on in-depth case studies, the core of this project will examine in what ways urbanization has reshaped the landscapes of rural property rights reforms, social welfare provision and community participation. Seeking a comparative perspective to understanding these issues, our study has both practical and theoretical implications. On the practical front, the findings of this study will identify the lessons and the best practice for mutual learning, through their new insights on under what specific circumstances local communities have achieved their specific outcome in planning and government. Such findings will also inform community capacity building as well as policy reforms towards better protecting the interests of villagers who are struggled for urban transition. On the academic front, the insights of this project about the regional diversity of community planning and governance will refine our current understanding of the actual effects of urbanization decentralization on state-society relationship in different institutional and cultural contexts. This will eventually lead to the advancement of the existing community planning and governance theories which have been primarily drawn from western experiences.​

该项目將中国、加拿大和澳大利亚城村地區的本土社区规划和治理进行了比较和研究。根據詳細的案例調研，该项目研究了城市化究竟如何重塑农村产权改革、社会福利改革以及社区参与的格局。我們以比较的视角來理解这些问题，這具有实践和理论意义。在实践方面，该项目的结果将通過研究当地社区在不同情况下的规划及治理案例，從而產生新的見解，並能做到相互学习。這些研究成果將为社区能力建设政策改革提供信息，從而更好地保护为城市转型而掙扎的村民的利益。從學術層面上看，该项目對於社区规划和治理区域多样性的见解將完善我们目前对不同制度和文化背景下城市化分权对国家社会关系的理解。最終，通過借鉴西方经验，將完善现有社区规划和治理理论在國内的发展。

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Acknowledgment 致谢
Research findings of this study come from a research grant from The Hong Kong Research Grants Council 本研究受到香港研究资助局资助​
https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.html​

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