Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development (Governing China in the 21st Century)

"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."--Back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: A New Path of Urbanization and Urban Governance in China (Lin Ye)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 The Changing Industrial Transformation in the Pearl River Delta: Issues, Challenges, and Intergovernmental Coordination (Peter T. Y. Cheung, Evans Y. M. Leung)....Pages 13-47 Emerging Urban-Regions in Central China: The Case of the Upper Yangtze River Delta (Lei Wang)....Pages 49-71 The New Global Economy and the New Direction of China’s Urbanization (Lizhu Dai)....Pages 73-89 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 A Genealogy of Redevelopment in Chinese Cities (Xuefei Ren)....Pages 93-108 Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of China’s Urban Development (Cathy Yang Liu, Wen Xie)....Pages 109-133 Urban Development and Branding Strategies for Emerging Global Cities in China (Emma Björner)....Pages 135-160 Housing Challenges in Chinese Cities Under Urbanization (Xiulian Ma)....Pages 161-181 Front Matter ....Pages 183-183 Informality in Governing Mega Cities in China: The Example of Shenzhen (Uwe Altrock, Xiaohong Tan)....Pages 185-213 Local Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Disparity Across Chinese Cities (Huiping Li, Qingfang Wang, Chunrong Zheng)....Pages 215-235 The Modes of Government Response to Internet Political Participation in Cities (Shihong Weng)....Pages 237-258 Back Matter ....Pages 259-271