Matthew Hartzell
Geographer and Urbanist
Matthew Hartzell is a geographer and urbanist with specialties in urban planning, tourism, and transportation. After studying history at Harvard University, he spent six years exploring Yunnan Province by bicycle, one valley at a time. In between travelin
Sep 07, 2016
Addressing the systemic imbalances in China's urban system will be a difficult and long-term endeavor. However, as service industries and technology expand their role within the Chinese economy, there's no reason why firms and jobs can't be more evenly spread out across the national network of cities, as they are in the U.S.
Feb 18, 2016
Matthew Hartzell polls his Zhihu followers to see who they’d pick for the U.S. election—first from the vantage point of China's national interest, and then from their own conscience. The results are a revealing look at the competing and at times contradictory perceptions of U.S. presidential candidates, and more harrowing Islamophobia.