Chinese cities in the 21st century / Youqin Huang, editor.

"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 mig...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Huang, Youqin (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:
Physical Description:329 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
Chinese cities in the twenty-first century
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: New Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
  • Part I A New Domestic and International Context
  • 2. Xi Jinpings Economic Policy and Chinese Urbanization
  • 3. Chinese Cities in the World-Systems City System: 2001-2014
  • 4. Redeveloping Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil
  • Part II The New Urban Economy
  • 5. Urbanism in Chinese Local Development: An Institutional Approach
  • 6. Private Participation in Chinas Infrastructure: Experience and Prospects
  • 7. 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 Housing
  • 8. Migration, Family Arrangement, and Childrens Health in China
  • 9. The Spatial Impact of Population on Housing Price in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China
  • 10. Shantytown Tenants Housing Choice in Beijing: A Perspective from the Consumer Equilibrium Theory
  • 11. Double Aging: Conserving the Living Environment of Familiarity (LEF) to Mediate Between Aging People and Aging Buildings
  • Part IV Urban Sustainability
  • 12. Environmental Sustainability in Urban China
  • 13. Unveil Urbanization 'Bubbles in China: Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy
  • 14. Evaluating Green Development Index in Ecologically Fragile Areas of China.