Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development

This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top—down control system. The vertical devolution between the central and local states and horizontal competition ...