Understanding China's Urbanization : The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic...

Description: Understanding China's Urbanization : The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation, Hardcover by Zhang, Li; LeGates, Richard; Zhao, Min, ISBN 1783474734, ISBN-13 9781783474738, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Collaborated by Chinese and American scholars, Understanding Chinas Urbanization opens up a new channel to disseminate Chinese studies to the world. Highly readable, th provides fine-grained materials and detailed information on Chinese urbanization. Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao effectively convey an indigenous perspective on Chinese urban futures and present a picture with sufficient complexity and wide coverage.
- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK

A most comprehensiv about urbanization in China, with in-depth insights from a talented scholarly team. This book is far more than a snapshot of the Chinese story, it reveals the important developments that have occured as China has transitioned into a dynamic urban country.
- Shi Nan, Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China

Zhang, LeGates, and Zhaos book builds on the voluminous literature on Chinas urbanization by adding new data, findings, insights, perspectives, and recommendations. Both academically sophisticated and reader-friendly, th surveys and critiques research in and outside China and highlights new phenomena in urbanization, governance, migration, foreign direct investment, and city clusters. Richly decorated with illustrations as well as the authors original statistical and field analyses, th is a much welcome multidisciplinary contribution to understanding a burning question in China.
- C. Cindy Fan, University of California, Los Angeles

Chinas urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to Chinas urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial, economic and social aspects of Chinas urban transformation.

Based on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up policies have impacted urbanization. They describe Chinas on-going urbanization process as a double-dual transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-dat on Chinese urbanization to date.

This scholarly study will appeal to academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in Asia, will be particularly interested in th.

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