Chinese Cities in the 21st Century

"With an incredible coverage in breadth and depth, this excellent collection provides a set of timely, compelling and extremely well-articulated assessments of China's new urban realities. A landmark contribution to the literature casting a long shadow over both scholarly enquiry and policy making concerning a rapidly urbanizing China at the dawn of the new urban century."

-George C.S. Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong, China

"Through skillful selection of varied analytic points of departure, editor Youqin Huang has created a masterful overview of the complex challenges confronting politicians, urban planners, and ordinary citizens who aspire to urban sustainability."

-Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University, USA

"This book is a timely and significant contribution to understanding Chinese cities at the moment of transformation. The book provides fresh insights on China's development model, institutional change, finance and development, and environmental and green development policies. Impressively comprehensive, the book is also remarkably detailed and fascinating."

-Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century. China is in the midst of a historic developmental inflection point, grappling with a significantly slowing economy, rapidly rising inequality, massive migration, skyrocketing housing prices, alarming environmental problems, and strong pushback from the West. In this volume, Western and Chinese scholars in different disciplines offer the clearest look yet at some of the main challenges China faces, including domestic and international contexts, the new urban development model, inclusion and well-being of migrants and their families, and urban sustainability. This book sheds light on China's ongoing development and future directions, and has strong policy implications for anyone interested in the future of China.

Autorentext

Youqin Huang is a Professor of Geography at University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is the co-author of several books including Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (*2014), *China's Geography (2015), and Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China (2016).

Zusammenfassung

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century. China is in the midst of a historic developmental inflection point, grappling with a significantly slowing economy, rapidly rising inequality, massive migration, skyrocketing housing prices, alarming environmental problems, and strong pushback from the West. In this volume, Western and Chinese scholars in different disciplines offer the clearest look yet at some of the main challenges China faces, including domestic and international contexts, the new urban development model, inclusion and well-being of migrants and their families, and urban sustainability. This book sheds light on China's ongoing development and future directions, and has strong policy implications for anyone interested in the future of China.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: New Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First CenturyPart I A New Domestic and International Context2. Xi Jinping's Economic Policy and Chinese Urbanization3. Chinese Cities in the World-System's City System: 20012014.4. Redeveloping Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil.Part II The New Urban Economy5. Urbanism in Chinese Local Development: An Institutional Approach6. Private Participation in China's Infrastructure: Experience and Prospects7. Path Dependency, Central-Local Dialectic, and Structure and Agency: How Has Yuhang Transformed from the Rural to the Urban?Part III Migrants' Inclusion and Affordable Housing8. Migration, Family Arrangement, and Children's Health in China9. The Spatial Impact of Population on Housing Price in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China10. Shantytown Tenants' Housing Choice in Beijing: A Perspective from the Consumer Equilibrium Theory11. Double Aging: Conserving the Living Environment of Familiarity (LEF) to Mediate Between Aging People and Aging BuildingsPart IV Urban Sustainability12. Environmental Sustainability in Urban China13. Unveil Urbanization 'Bubbles' in China: Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy14. Evaluating Green Development Index in Ecologically Fragile Areas of China