Yimeng Yang
PhD in Public Policy
Yimeng Yang is a PhD candidate at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, with a concentration in Urban and Regional Policy. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, a MSc in Urban Planning from National Taiwan University, and a MA in Asian Studies from Leiden University in Netherlands. Yimeng’s current research interests center on the political economy, technopolitics, and new power configurations underlying global green urbanism. His doctoral dissertation examines the transformation of municipal waste infrastructure in China as a lens through which to analyze institutional restructuring, financing experimentation, spatial strategies, and emergent crisis tendencies under the state-led ecological transition. His work not only engages with theoretical and policy debates on urban development, green governmentality and environmental justice under variegated capitalism, but also actively explores the possibilities of community-based alternative sustainability practices.
