Youqin Huang - Chinese Cities in the 21stCentury

Editor

Youqin Huang

Chinese Cities in the 21stCentury

This is an excellent collection of cutting-edge research works. With an incredible coverage in breadth and depth, it provides a set of timely, compelling and extremely well-articulated assessments of Chinas new urban realities. A landmark contribution to the literature casting a long shadow over both scholarly enquiry and policy making concerning a rapidly urbanizing China at the dawn of the new urban century.

George C.S. Lin,Chair Professor of Geography,University of Hong Kong, China

With a superb combination of varied and fine-grained ethnographic vignettes and rigorous statistical analyses, this book creates a wide-ranging dialogue about the development of Chinese cities under constraints of declining economic growth. Through skillful selection of varied analytic points of departure, editor Youqin Huang has created a masterful overview of the complex challenges confronting politicians, urban planners, and ordinary citizens who aspire to urban sustainability.

Deborah Davis,Professor Emerita of Sociology,Yale University, USA

This book is a timely and significant contribution to understanding Chinese cities at the moment of transformation. A group of prominent scholars on the development of China re-examined changing international and domestic conditions, and consequential economic, social, and sustainability challenges. The book provides newest information and fresh insights on Chinas development model, institutional change, finance and development, migrants, housing, health and ageing, and environmental and green development policies. Impressively comprehensive, the book is also remarkably detailed and fascinating.

Fulong Wu,Bartlett Professor of Planning,University College London, UK

Against the backdrop of speedy changes in China, this book provides timely updates of not only Chinese cities but also new drivers of urban development such as smart cities, private participation, green development, and aging. The editor has assembled renowned social scientists whose multidisciplinary backgrounds and whose attention to both theories and grounded realities make the book highly relevant, insightful, informative and relatable, and a truly 21st century contribution to China Studies and Urban Studies.

C. Cindy Fan,Professor of Geography, Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement,University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Urban China is evolving so quickly that it is hard to keep up with the changes. Here a set of leading scholars take stock of where things stand on a wide range of issues. Much is familiar in their accounts but there are also signs of a turning point, bringing into question the stability and sustainability of the current model. Can the future be managed when so much is in play?

John R. Logan,Professor of Sociology,Brown University, USA