Wissink, Bart
Professor
Public Policy
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Bart Wissink received Master degrees in Urban Planning (cum laude) and Public Administration (cum laude), and a PhD in Social and Behavioural Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has been working as policy advisor at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and as assistant professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and at the University of Hong Kong. His Respace research project studies enclave urbanism in five Asian city regions (Bangkok, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Tokyo), with special attention for comparative urban form, urban controversies and social networks and the neighbourhood. Bart Wissink has held visiting appointments in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Tokyo.
Research Interest
Social networks and the neighbourhood
Publications
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Koh, S.Y. & B. Wissink (in press) ‘Enabling, structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: Intermediaries of the super-rich’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1315509.
