| Description |
xviii, 171 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Urlan Wannop -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chinse Urban Development: From Socialist Central Planning to Socialist Market Orientation -- 3. An Emerging Property Market in the Transitional Economy -- 4. Gradualist Urban Land Reforms in the Framework of Institutional Change -- 5. Formation of a Local Property Development Industry -- 6. Conclusion: Implications of Gradualist Land Reforms |
| Summary |
Annotation. From 1949 to today, China has experienced dramatic changes in its economy and urban development. This book examines these changes and looks at one city, Shenzhen, in detail. The performance and behavior of a fledgling property market in the transitional economy are analyzed in the backdrop of real estate commodification and marketization. Students and researchers in urban geography, urban planning, economics, business, and real estate will find this monograph lucid and original. Two distinctive periods divide the last fifty years of development in China. The period 1949 to 1978 was dominated by central planning. After 1978, however, economic reforms brought a new property market to many of China's cities. The economic surge of this period has transformed these cities and helped create new metropolises. The special economic zone of Shenzhen grew from what was, until 1980, a landscape predominantly made up of rice paddy fields and traditional villages. By 1995, the population of the city grew to more than two and a half million. Two modes of land provision are identified as the main contributors to Shenzhen's urban development process, which is also echoed in other Chinese cities. Incremental urban land reforms are elaborated within a broad framework of institutional change, while marketization has brought many changes to Chinese society. Continued urban reform toward a market economy seems now irreversible |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Urban policy -- China.
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Urbanization -- China.
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Land use, Urban -- China.
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Free enterprise -- China.
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| Author |
Wannop, Urlan, 1931-
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EBSCOhost
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| LC no. |
00002152 99018720 |
| ISBN |
0275964272 alkaline paper |
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