. . . this book does an excellent job of distilling huge amounts of information on the last four decades of Chinas great economic and urban transformations into a highly readable text and gets across very clearly its central message of the opportunity, as well as the need, for now rebalancing towards greater social justice and more harmonious development. -- Tony Champion, Town Planning Review Collaborated by Chinese and American scholars, Understanding China's Urbanization opens up a new channel to disseminate Chinese studies to the world. Highly readable, the book provides fine-grained materials and detailed information on Chinese urbanization. Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao effectively convey an indigenous perspective on Chinese urban futures and present a picture with sufficient complexity and wide coverage. -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK 'A most comprehensive book about urbanization in China, with in-depth insights from a talented scholarly team. This book is far more than a snapshot of the Chinese story, it reveals the important developments that have occured as China has transitioned into a dynamic urban country.' -- Shi Nan, Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China Zhang, LeGates, and Zhaos book builds on the voluminous literature on Chinas urbanization by adding new data, findings, insights, perspectives, and recommendations. Both academically sophisticated and reader-friendly, the book surveys and critiques research in and outside China and highlights new phenomena in urbanization, governance, migration, foreign direct investment, and city clusters. Richly decorated with illustrations as well as the authors original statistical and field analyses, the book is a much welcome multidisciplinary contribution to understanding a burning question in China. -- C. Cindy Fan, University of California, Los Angeles, US
