Book chapter
Introduction: Urbanization, Mobility, and Marginalization
China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability, pp 3-15
01 Jan 2019
Abstract
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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- Title
- Introduction: Urbanization, Mobility, and Marginalization
- Creators
- Richardson Dilworth - Drexel UniversityRebecca Clothey - Drexel UniversityJennifer Adams - Drexel University
- Contributors
- Rebecca A Clothey (Editor) - Drexel University, Global Studies and Modern LanguagesRichardson Dilworth (Editor) - Drexel University, Politics
- Publication Details
- China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability, pp 3-15
- Series
- McGill-Queens Studies in Urban Governance
- Publisher
- Mcgill-Queens Univ Pr; MONTREAL
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Global Studies and Modern Languages; Politics; School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000653967500001
- Other Identifier
- 991019170500804721
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- Regional & Urban Planning
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