Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth

Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth

Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth

Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth

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Overview

Addressing the most pressing issues of urbanization in China—urban planning, land policy, rural-to-urban migration, and financing—this book enhances our understanding of the challenges at hand and helps policy makers and urban planners make decisions that are economically sound, environmentally desirable, and politically feasible.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781558441750
Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Publication date: 10/28/2007
Pages: 302
Sales rank: 932,649
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

Table of Contents


Introduction, Yan Song and Chengri Ding

I. Urban Planning in the Face of Urbanization
1. Urban Development Patterns in China: New, Renewed, and Ignored Urban Spaces, Tingwei Zhang
2. Value Capture Through Integrated Land Use–Transit Development: Experience from Hong Kong, Taipei, and Shanghai, Ming Zhang
3. Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning: Are They Applicable in China?, Paul Cheshire

II. Land Policy
4. Policy and Praxis of Land Acquisition in China, Chengri Ding
5. Assessing Farmland Protection Policy in China, Erik Lichtenberg and Chengri Ding
6. Managing China’s Arable Land Resources in an Era of Sustainability, Robert Ash

III. Rural-to-Urban Migration and Its Implications
7. The Role of China’s Urbanizing Villages in Housing Rural Migrants, Yan Song, Yves Zenou, and Chengri Ding
8. Chengzhongcun: China’s Urbanizing Villages from Multiple Perspectives, Michael Leaf
9. Housing Rural Migrants in Urban China: Lessons from the United States, Roberto G. Quercia and Yan Song
10.Efficiency in China’s Urban Labor Markets, Jeffrey S. Zax

IV. Financing China’s Urbanization
11. Public Finance Challenges for Chinese Urban Development, Randall Crane
12. Urban Infrastructure and Financing in China, Weiping Wu
13. Non-Performing Loan Resolution in the Context of China’s Transitional Economy, Bing Wang and Richard Peiser

Conclusion, Yan Song and Chengri Ding
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