Florence and Thierry took part at the RC21 Antwerp Conference “sensing the city”, in July 14-16 2021. They presented the research project with the title “Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022, ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption”. The presentation was part of the special session “Extended urbanisation: from State strategies to everyday life” organized by Christian Schmid and Nithin Bathla (ETHZ) (link to RC21 to add).

This presentation was a premise to develop the article “China’s extended urbanization driven by the consumption city in the context of financialized ecological civilization” that was published in the new international journal focused on China’s urban development, Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, in which Thierry is part of the scientific committee.