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This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on different continents in the world. The book then moves its attention to exploring aging in China. In particular, it reviews the implications of urbanization for Chinese older people. It draws from social theory to illuminate a perceptual framework to examine rapid social change

China's rise as a global power is one of the major economic and political developments of the past fifty years. One seemingly inevitable outcome of industrialization is urbanization, and this definitive study surveys the key aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization with an emphasis on the changes to the quality of life of urban dewellers. With contributions from authors in a variety of fields, Aspects of Urbanization in China creates a resonant and rich portrait of China's global ambitions, as well as their culture, architecture, and economy. While the volume deals with disparate aspects of urbanization, the articles included are unified by a deep concern for Chinese citizens.

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Summary -- Introductory Remarks -- Outline of Presentations -- Public-Private Partnerships and Urbanization -- Public-Private Partnerships in the People's Republic of China -- The Urbanization Challenge -- The Case of Harbin -- Innovation in Public-Private Partnership Projects -- China Gas and Natural Gas Distribution -- The Beijing Metro -- Metro Public-Private Partnerships in Hong Kong, China -- Social Sector Public-Private Partnerships in the United Kingdom -- Education Public-Private Partnerships -- Social Housing in the People's Republic of China

In the last 30 years, China's record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people's health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China's urban population projected to rise to about one billion - or close to 70 percent of the country's population - by 2030, China's leaders are seeking a more

As in most other countries, the definition of urban areas in China is fairly complex. Since taking power in 1949 the Chinese government has defined and redefined the definition of "city" three times: in November 1955, in December 1963 and in October 1984. The article explores the structure of China's urbanization, and changes over time in the level of urbanization. (DÜI-Sen)

Urban areas in mainland China are divided into shih (cities) and chen (towns). As the two units share in many features in common and differ mainly in size alone, they are equally important to any study of urbanization. In this article, the author traces the development of shih and chen and attempts to estimate their degree of urbanization. (DÜI-Sen)

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears ""Latin Americanization"" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this ""urban bias"" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for polit

Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: China's New Era of Urbanization -- Chapter 1: Planning under Urban-Rural Coordination -- Chapter 2: Charismatic Authority and the Urbanization of the Party -- Chapter 3: Residents' Urban-Rural Strategies of Survival -- Chapter 4: Property, Politics, and Uncertainty at the Urban-Rural Edge -- Chapter 5: Land Commodification, Shareholding, and Self-Urbanization -- Chapter 6: Experiences of Displacement -- Conclusion: Disjunctural Urbanization -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.