China urbanizing : impacts and transitions / edited by Weiping Wu and Qin Gao.

"This book captures the impact of China's sweeping urbanization on its socioeconomic welfare, environment and resources, urban form and lifestyle, and population and health. The book provides new perspectives to understand China's transitions underway and the gravity of its progress in the context o...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Other Authors: Wu, Weiping, 1965- (Editor)
Gao, Qin, 1977- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
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Physical Description:vi, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Paying for Urbanization : Land Finance and Impacts / Weiping Wu
  • 2. Cities for Whom? The 2017 Beijing Demolitions in Context / Shiqi Ma and Jeremy Wallace
  • 3. Housing Markets, Residential Sorting, and Spatial Segregation / Shin Bin Tan, Wenfei Xu, and Sarah Williams
  • 4. Has the Economic Situation of Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China Been Improving? An Updated Assessment / Shi Li and Binbin Wu
  • 5. Urban Poverty in China : Has Dibao Been an Effective Policy Response? / Qin Gao
  • 6. Implementing the National New-Type Urbanization Plan : Regional Variations / Juan Chen, Pierre F. Landry, and Deborah Davis
  • 7. Dementia or Anomie: What Explains the Missing Older Adults Phenomenon in China? / Guibin Xiong
  • 8. Environmental Impact of Urbanization in Post-Reform China / Peilei Fan
  • 9. Shifting Exposures in China's Urbanization Experience : Implications for Health / Justin Remais
  • 10. Prospects and Social Impact of Big Data-Driven Urban Governance in China : Provincializing Smart City Research / Alan Smart and Dean Curran.