The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.Content: Chapter 1 Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization, Migration, and Market Reform (pages 1–21): John R. LoganChapter 2 The Present Situation and Prospective Development of the Shanghai Urban Community (pages 22–36): Duo Wu and Taibin LiChapter 3 The Development of the Chinese Metropolis in the Period of Transition (pages 37–55): Xiaopei Yan, Li Jia, Jianping Li and Jizhuan WengChapter 4 The Prospect of International Cities in China (pages 57–73): Yi?Xing ZhouChapter 5 Globalization and Hong Kong's Entrepreneurial City Strategies: Contested Visions and the Remaking of City Governance in (Post?)Crisis Hong Kong (pages 74–91): Ngai?Ling SumChapter 6 The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Urban Region: An Emerging Transnational Mode of Regulation or Just Muddling Through? (pages 92–105): Alan SmartChapter 7 The State, Capital, and Urban Restructuring in Post?Reform Shanghai (pages 106–120): Zhengji FuChapter 8 The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaboration between the China and Singapore Governments and Transnational Corporations (1992–1999) (pages 121–134): Alexius PereiraChapter 9 Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China (pages 135–152): Min Zhou and John R. LoganChapter 10 Real Estate Development and the Transformation of Urban Space in China's Transitional Economy, with Special Reference to Shanghai (pages 153–166): Fulong WuChapter 11 Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian (pages 167–180): Daniel B. Abramson, Michael Leaf and Tan YingChapter 12 Migrant Enclaves in Large Chinese Cities (pages 181–197): Fan Jie and Wolfgang TaubmannChapter 13 Social Polarization and Segregation in Beijing (pages 198–211): Chaolin Gu and Haiyong LiuChapter 14 Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement Patterns (pages 212–226): Weiping WuChapter 15 Return Migration, Entrepreneurship, and State?Sponsored Urbanization in the Jiangxi Countryside (pages 227–244): Rachel MurphyChapter 16 Region?Based Urbanization in Post?Reform China: Spatial Restructuring in the Pearl River Delta (pages 245–257): George C. S. Lin