Abstract
Pre-reform and post-reform are two distinct periods symbolizing a sea change in China’s urban landscape. Over the last three decades, this great nation has witnessed massive population mobility, dramatic urban expansion and high rates but also highly inflationary economic growth. This dynamic process has mobilized a great diversity of development strategies, urban planning skills, and management expertise to respond to economic reforms and to make modernization work. A series of chain activities has in consequence combined population mobility, urban planning and management effects, taking place vigorously across China’s cityscape. It is this strong academic interest initiated by a unique and peculiar growth-led urbanization in China that this introductory chapter has presented the essence of 19 valuable contributions from highly qualified authors.
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Wong, TC., Han, S.S. (2015). Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China: An Introduction. In: Wong, TC., Han, S., Zhang, H. (eds) Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15257-8_1
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