As metropolitan regions continue to fuse into giant megalopolises, nations are confronted
with new challenges for governing large metropolitan regions. This monograph addresses …

Urban land reform is one of the most important constituents of China's whole economic
reform programme launched in the late 1970s. Through a series of reforms, urban land …

Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the
First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country's economic …

While urban sprawl is a controversial topic among researchers, the majority of planners
have expressed concerns about sprawl's environmental and social costs, and …

China's urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will
undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an …

A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together
the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has …

This article investigates Taipingqiao urban redevelopment projects in Shanghai that have
conserved the traditional'Shikumen'architectural form with the goal of exploring the driving …

This article examines the role of historical preservation in the spatial restructuring of
postindustrial cities through a detailed case study of Xintiandi, a preservation–based …

China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to
very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been …

sing a sample of recently completed'commodity housing'in Guangzhou, ie dwellings that
were built by development companies and sold or rented at full market price in the primary …