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Urbanization and Urban Governance in China

Issues, Challenges, and Development

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Editors:
  1. Lin Ye

    1. Center for Chinese Public Administration Research School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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  • Offers a more tightly knitted and concrete analysis on the governance issues of China’s urbanization
  • Examines how China’s urban governance needs to evolve and respond to the challenges of urbanization.
  • Explores practical recommendations for China’s future urbanization

Part of the book series: Governing China in the 21st Century (GC21)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: A New Path of Urbanization and Urban Governance in China

    • Lin Ye
    Pages 1-9

  4. Urban Redevelopment, Housing Inequality and City Branding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. A Genealogy of Redevelopment in Chinese Cities

      • Xuefei Ren
      Pages 93-108

    3. Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of China’s Urban Development

      • Cathy Yang Liu, Wen Xie
      Pages 109-133

    4. Urban Development and Branding Strategies for Emerging Global Cities in China

      • Emma Björner
      Pages 135-160

    5. Housing Challenges in Chinese Cities Under Urbanization

      • Xiulian Ma
      Pages 161-181

  5. Urban Governance and Informal Dynamics in the New Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Informality in Governing Mega Cities in China: The Example of Shenzhen

      • Uwe Altrock, Xiaohong Tan
      Pages 185-213

    3. Local Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Disparity Across Chinese Cities

      • Huiping Li, Qingfang Wang, Chunrong Zheng
      Pages 215-235

    4. The Modes of Government Response to Internet Political Participation in Cities

      • Shihong Weng
      Pages 237-258

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 259-271
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About this book

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 among local governments produced an uneasy political dynamics in Chinese cities. Many existing publications analyze the urban transformation in China but few focuses on the governance challenges. It is critical to investigate China’s urbanization, paying special attention to its challenges to urban governance. This edited volume fills this gap by organizing ten chapters of distinctive urban development and governance issues. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Chinese Public Administration Research School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Lin Ye

About the editor

Lin Ye is Associate Professor in the School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urbanization and Urban Governance in China

  • Book Subtitle: Issues, Challenges, and Development

  • Editors: Lin Ye

  • Series Title: Governing China in the 21st Century

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57824-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58207-2Published: 30 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93546-8Published: 06 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57824-2Published: 29 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-6968

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6976

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Urban Studies/Sociology

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