The Transition of China's Urban Development: From Plan-Controlled to Market-Led

by Jieming Zhu

Overview

From 1949 to today, China has experienced dramatic changes in its economy and urban development. This book examines these changes and looks at one city, Shenzhen, in detail. The performance and behavior of a fledgling property market in the transitional economy are analyzed in the backdrop of real estate commodification and marketization. Students and researchers in urban geography, urban planning, economics, business, and real estate will find this monograph lucid and original.

Two distinctive periods divide the last fifty years of development in China. The period 1949 to 1978 was dominated by central planning. After 1978, however, economic reforms brought a new property market to many of China's cities. The economic surge of this period has transformed these cities and helped create new metropolises. The special economic zone of Shenzhen grew from what was, until 1980, a landscape predominantly made up of rice paddy fields and traditional villages. By 1995, the population of the city grew to more than two and a half million. Two modes of land provision are identified as the main contributors to Shenzhen's urban development process, which is also echoed in other Chinese cities. Incremental urban land reforms are elaborated within a broad framework of institutional change, while marketization has brought many changes to Chinese society. Continued urban reform toward a market economy seems now irreversible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275964276
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/1999
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

JIEMING ZHU is a Lecturer at National University of Singapore./e His research has focused on urban planning and development in the transitional economy, and real estate analysis in high-density East Asian cities.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Chinese Urban Development: From Socialist Central Planning to Socialist Market Orientation
An Emerging Property Market in the Transitional Economy
Gradualist Urban Land Reforms in the Framework of Institutional Change
Formation of a Local Property Development Industry
Conclusion: Implications of Gradualist Land Reforms
Bibliography
Index