Chinese Cities in the 21st Century

Youqin Huang is a Professor of Geography at University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is the co-author of several books including Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (2014), China’s Geography (2015), and Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China (2016).

• 1. Introduction: New Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century.- Part I A New Domestic and International Context.- 2. Xi Jinping’s Economic Policy and Chinese Urbanization.- 3. Chinese Cities in the World-System’s City System: 2001–2014.- 4. Redeveloping Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil.- Part II The New Urban Economy.- 5. Urbanism in Chinese Local Development: An Institutional Approach.- 6. Private Participation in China’s Infrastructure: Experience and Prospects.- 7. Path Dependency, Central-Local Dialectic, and Structure and Agency: How Has Yuhang Transformed from the Rural to the Urban?.- Part III Migrants’ Inclusion and Affordable Housing.- 8. Migration, Family Arrangement, and Children’s Health in China.- 9. The Spatial Impact of Population on Housing Price in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China.- 10. Shantytown Tenants’ Housing Choice in Beijing: A Perspective from the Consumer Equilibrium Theory.- 11. Double Aging: Conserving the Living Environment of Familiarity (LEF) to Mediate Between Aging People and Aging Buildings.- Part IV Urban Sustainability.- 12. Environmental Sustainability in Urban China.- 13. Unveil Urbanization ‘Bubbles’ in China: Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy.- 14. Evaluating Green Development Index in Ecologically Fragile Areas of China.