China's emerging cities : the making of new urbanism / edited by Fulong Wu.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

"Transferred to Digital Printing 2010."--T.p. verso of paperback edition

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cities as emerging institution -- Beyond gradualism : China's urban revolution and emerging cities / Fulong Wu -- Land property rights regime in China : a comparative study of Suzhou and Dongguan / You-Ren Yang, Hung-Kai Wang -- Public-private partnership in the urban water sector of Shanghai / Seungho Lee -- The dialectics of urban planning in China / Daniel B. Abramson -- Transitioning economic and social spheres -- Hong kong and Taiwan investment in Dongguan : divergent trajectories and impacts / Chun Yang -- Urban labor market changes and social protection for urban informal workers : challenges for China and India / Sunil Kumar, Bingqin Li -- Ageing urban society : discourse and policy / Ian G. Cook, Jason L. Powell -- Transition to homeownership : implications for wealth redistribution / Si-ming Li -- Rebuilding residential space -- Residential redevelopment and social impacts in Beijing / Hyun Bang Shin -- Neighborhood changes and residential differentiation in Shanghai / Shenjing He, Fulong Wu -- Large urban redevelopment projects and socio-spatial stratification in Shanghai / Ying Ying Tian, Cecilia Wong -- Emerging leisure, retailing and consumption practices -- Spaces of leisure : gated golf communities in China / Guillaume Giroir -- A tale of two cities : restructuring of retail capital and production of new consumption spaces in Beijing and Shanghai / Shuguang Wang, Chongyi Guo -- When local meets global : residential differentiation, global connections and consumption in Shanghai / Jiaming Sun, Xiangming Chen.

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 {u2018}gradualism{u2019}, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including: local land development the local state private-public partnership foreign investment urbanization, ageing and 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 {u2018}Third World{u2019} city and the globalizing cities of the West.