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Introduction: Urbanization, Mobility, and Marginalization
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Introduction: Urbanization, Mobility, and Marginalization

Richardson Dilworth, Rebecca Clothey and Jennifer Adams
China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability, pp 3-15
01 Jan 2019

Abstract

Regional & Urban Planning Public Administration Social Sciences Sociology
Possibly the most important phenomenon in the world at the turn of the twenty-first century was China’s transformation into an urbanized economic juggernaut. Urbanization in China is a study in superlatives, involving the world’s greatest rural-to-urban migration, the highest-ever level of net exports fuelled by the largest single workforce, the most rapidly increasing economic inequality (Chen 2014, 166), and unprecedented investments in infrastructure, which have now created the most private debt ever in the history of the world, threatening a large-scale financial crisis. The economic slowdown and threat of a financial crisis have led to new signs of social discontent...

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