Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC), led by Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz, is a global platform to develop conceptual and professional insights from a better understanding of Asian urbanization. The goal of AUC is to map more accurately the cultural forces that have led to Asia’s enormously significant urbanization, and to establish a collaborative scholarly community. This project both recognizes the under-estimated importance of urbanization and brings indigenous intellectual frameworks into a