China's Emerging Cities (Routledge Contemporary China Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415590434 ISBN 13: 9780415590433

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development.

Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common wisdom of Chinese ‘gradualism’, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including:

• local land development
• the local state
• private-public partnership
• foreign investment
• urbanization
• ageing
• home ownership.

Providing a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.

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About the Author

Fulong Wu is Professor of East Asian Planning and Development and the Director of the Urban China Research Centre at the School of City and Regional Planning of Cardiff University. He is co-editor (with Laurence Ma) of Restructuring the Chinese City (Routledge, 2005), editor of Globalization and the Chinese City (Routledge, 2006), and co-author (with Jiang Xu and Anthony Gar-On Yeh) Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space (Routledge, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415590434
• ISBN 13: 9780415590433
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Wu Fulong