Lawrence W.C. Lai

2.1k total citations
140 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lawrence W.C. Lai is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence W.C. Lai has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 29 papers in Urban Studies and 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Lawrence W.C. Lai's work include Housing Market and Economics (34 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (20 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (17 papers). Lawrence W.C. Lai is often cited by papers focused on Housing Market and Economics (34 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (20 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (17 papers). Lawrence W.C. Lai collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, Canada and United States. Lawrence W.C. Lai's co-authors include Frank T. Lorne, Winky K.O. Ho, Kwong Wing Chau, Stephen Davies, Ben T. Yu, Ping Yung, K.W. Chau, Daniel C.W. Ho, Kwok‐wing Chau and Anqi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Urban Studies and Land Use Policy.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence W.C. Lai

131 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lawrence W.C. Lai Hong Kong 23 618 439 330 287 219 140 1.6k
Edwin Buitelaar Netherlands 21 487 0.8× 428 1.0× 284 0.9× 266 0.9× 88 0.4× 54 1.2k
Ernest R. Alexander United States 24 332 0.5× 691 1.6× 202 0.6× 390 1.4× 72 0.3× 70 2.1k
Erwin van der Krabben Netherlands 19 542 0.9× 438 1.0× 182 0.6× 187 0.7× 135 0.6× 91 1.4k
David Adams United Kingdom 22 497 0.8× 597 1.4× 446 1.4× 149 0.5× 45 0.2× 101 1.6k
W.K. Korthals Altes Netherlands 18 224 0.4× 320 0.7× 187 0.6× 137 0.5× 76 0.3× 67 847
Peter M. Ward United States 26 427 0.7× 1.3k 3.0× 374 1.1× 61 0.2× 152 0.7× 106 2.2k
Carole Rakodi United Kingdom 26 381 0.6× 1.1k 2.6× 192 0.6× 85 0.3× 405 1.8× 91 2.1k
André Sørensen Canada 21 204 0.3× 600 1.4× 191 0.6× 73 0.3× 85 0.4× 45 1.3k
Stanley McGreal United Kingdom 27 1.8k 2.9× 582 1.3× 618 1.9× 318 1.1× 23 0.1× 201 2.9k
Jieming Zhu Singapore 23 416 0.7× 800 1.8× 141 0.4× 65 0.2× 177 0.8× 51 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chau, Kwong Wing, et al.. (2025). Sustainable Development as A Win–Win Development: A Hong Kong Empirical Study of the Tai Kwun Heritage Project. Sustainable Development. 33(4). 5151–5161. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2025). Is ‘island study’ but a form of land study?. Town Planning Review. 97(2). 113–124. 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2025). An opinion regarding the grid layout as a goal and parameter. Land Use Policy. 151. 107481–107481.
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Lai, Lawrence W.C.. (2024). The Credibility Thesis meeting the Coase Theorem in terms of form and function. Land Use Policy. 147. 107335–107335. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2024). Remembering walls by map naming and planned attempts to eradicate and salvage a wall-less “walled city”: Kowloon City. Land Use Policy. 148. 107375–107375. 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2023). “Ring up for an appointment”: Empirical & oral evidence of commercial & other freedoms in the heyday of the City. Cities. 135. 104232–104232. 4 indexed citations
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Chau, Kwong Wing, et al.. (2023). Museums for ex situ tangible heritage conservation: A neo-institutional analytical and empirical economic analysis. Land Use Policy. 127. 106561–106561. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Anqi, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, Lawrence W.C. Lai, & Kwong Wing Chau. (2023). Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective. Cities. 141. 104463–104463. 12 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., Kwong Wing Chau, & Frank T. Lorne. (2019). “Forgetting by not doing”: An institutional memory inquiry of forward planning for land production by reclamation. Land Use Policy. 82. 796–806. 6 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2018). Urban renewal and redevelopment: Social justice and property rights with reference to Hong Kong's constitutional capitalism. Cities. 74. 240–248. 61 indexed citations
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Yu, Ben T., et al.. (2017). The Demand and Supply of Protection:A Reinterpretation of the Emergence of a Weberian/Olsonian State through the Lens of Modern China. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 4(1). 4 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., et al.. (2016). Informal Land Registration under Unclear Property Rights: Witnessing Contracts, Redevelopment, and Conferring Property Rights. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 22 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C. & Ben T. Yu. (2012). The Hong Kong fish marketing organisation: a case study of the nature of the financial problems of a legal monopoly. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., Stephen Davies, & Frank T. Lorne. (2008). The political economy of Coase's lighthouse in history (Part I): A review of the theories and models of the provision of a public good. Town Planning Review. 79(4). 395–426. 20 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., Stephen Davies, & Frank T. Lorne. (2008). The political economy of Coase's lighthouse in history (Part II): Lighthouse development along the coast of China. Town Planning Review. 79(5). 555–580. 12 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C., Ping Yung, Rita Yi Man Li, & Daniel Chi Wing Ho. (2007). The private supply of and public demand for planning: Compliance with planning conditions in the absence of direct statutory enforcement measures. Planning Practice and Research. 22(4). 535–557. 16 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C. & Kwok‐wing Chau. (2006). Institutions, culture, and sustainable development. Property Management. 24(2). 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Lawrence W.C. & Winky K.O. Ho. (2001). Low-rise Residential Developments in Green Belts: A Hong Kong Empirical Study of Planning Applications. Planning Practice and Research. 16(3-4). 321–335. 25 indexed citations

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