China's Emerging Cities

<p>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. </p><p>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:</p><ul> <li>local land development </li> <li>the local state </li> <li>private-public partnership </li> <li>foreign investment </li> <li>urbanization </li> <li>ageing</li> <li>home ownership. </li> </ul><p>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trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Cities as Emerging Institutions</strong> 1. Beyond Gradualism: China’s Urban Revolution and Emerging Cities <em>Fulong Wu </em>2. Land Property Rights Regime in China: A Comparative Study of Suzhou and Dongguan <em>You-Ren Yang and Hung-Kai Wang </em>3. Public-Private Partnership in the Urban Water Sector of Shanghai <em>Seungho Lee </em>4. The Dialectics of Urban Planning in China <em>Daniel B. Abramson</em> <strong>Part 2: Transitioning Economic and Social Spheres</strong> 5. Hong Kong and Taiwan Investment in Dongguan: Divergent Trajectories and Impacts <em>Chun Yang </em>6. Urban Labor Market Changes and Social Protection for Urban Informal Workers: Challenges for China and India <em>Sunil Kumar and Bingqin Li</em> 7. Ageing Urban Society: Discourse and Policy <em>Ian G. Cook and Jason L. Powell </em>8. Transition to Homeownership: Implications for Wealth Redistribution <em>Si-ming Li</em> <strong>Part 3: Rebuilding Residential Space</strong> 9. Residential Redevelopment and Social Impacts in Beijing <em>Hyun Bang Shin </em>10. Neighborhood Changes and Residential Differentiation in Shanghai <em>Shenjing He and Fulong Wu </em>11. Large Urban Redevelopment Projects and Socio-Spatial Stratification in Shanghai <em>Ying Ying Tian and Cecilia Wong </em><strong>Part 4: Emerging Leisure, Retailing and Consumption Practices</strong> 12. Spaces of Leisure: Gated Golf Communities in China <em>Guillaume Giroir </em>13. A Tale of Two Cities: Restructuring of Retail Capital and Production of New Consumption Spaces in Beijing and Shanghai <em>Shuguang Wang and Chongyi Guo </em>14. When Local Meets Global: Residential Differentiation, Global Connections and Consumption in Shanghai <em>Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen</em></p>