Andrew Stokols is a PhD candidate in urban planning and policy at MIT, where his research looks at how urban technologies (smart cities, IoT, 5G, AI) are being shaped in an era of geopolitical competition, with research in Southeast Asia and China. Previously he was research director for ETH Future Cities Lab Singapore, worked at World Resources Institute in Washington D.C., and as research director at Peking University’s Ecological urbanism center. He has a Master’s degree in urban planning from Harvard graduate school of design and a Bachelor’s from UC-Berkeley in Chinese history and urban planning, and has been a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology.
Xiongโan New Area (้ๅฎๆฐๅบ Xiรณng'ฤn Xฤซnqลซ) is a development hub in Hebei province, announced on April 1, 2017, and is currently home to multiple state-owned enterprises, research facilities, and government offices. At the six-year anniversary of its founding, we take a closer look at this centrally-planned city.
