“Chinatown is Chinatown; Flushing is China”: Defining Chinese Diasporic Urbanism in Emerging Chinatowns
Grant budget: $10,000
Grant period: 2024-2025
Record numbers of Chinese migrants crossing the US-Mexico border lately call for a long-overdue investigation of Chinese diasporic stories in the US and how their lived experience, urban imagination, as well as resource-making construct the built environment and shape urbanization processes. This timely research will document, analyze, and characterize what we define as “Chinese diasporic urbanism,” by investigating two 21st-century emerging “Chinatowns” in Queens—Flushing and Long Island City (LIC). The outcome will expand and contribute to urban design and architectural theories for creating a more just and inclusive built environment.