China's Emerging Cities

Urbanism has become a key driver of socio-economic change in China, with rapid housing privatisation, commodification and urban redevelopment transforming the face of Chinese cities. The Chinese experience challenges the received wisdom of Chinese gradualism' in economic reform, and goes beyond classical Western notions of new urbanism' as gentrification, diversity and higher-density living. This book investigates China's urban reform, 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'. It covers a wide range of important topics, including local land development, the local state, private-public partnership, foreign investment, urbanisation, ageing and home ownership. This book provides a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, putting forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the Third World' city and the globalising cities of the West.Wu, Fulong is the author of 'China's Emerging Cities', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415416177 and ISBN 0415416175.