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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453136303321

Titolo

China's new urbanization strategy / / China Development Research Foundation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-48176-9

0-203-07493-9

1-299-44814-3

1-135-11720-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; ; 49

Disciplina

307.760951

Soggetti

Urbanization - China

City planning - China

Rural-urban migration - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; China's New Urbanization Strategy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Project team; Preface I; Preface II; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Urbanization in China: process, trends, and challenges; 2 Converting rural migrant workers into urban residents in the course of urbanization; 3 Setting up a spatial configuration for 'urbanization' in China that features 'two horizontal lines and three vertical lines'; 4 Making 'urban clusters' the primary form of urbanization in China

5 Industrial structure and employment considerations in the course of urbanization6 How to improve the provision of public services in urban areas; 7 Creating sustainable processes for building and financing urban infrastructure; 8 A 'green path' toward urbanization; 9 Innovative approaches to managing 'urbanization' and 'city governance'; 10 Policy recommendations; Appendices; Bibliography; English references; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China's 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is



likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration puts on China's cities are enormous. This book makes available for the English-speaking reader the results of a large group of research projects undertaken by CDRF, one of China's leading think tanks, into the details of rural-urban migration, the resulting urban growth and the problems associated wi