By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in
every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban
billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past
thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people,
and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of
millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead
second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky
citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged
roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The
rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are
urgently needed to create healthier cities. Combining on-the-ground
reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why
China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of
urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its
leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States
and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they
get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in
middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.
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ISBN
9781780321448
Publisert
2017
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Zed Books
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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