The book conducts a comprehensive research study on Chinas urbanization. It puts forward three theoretical development models of urban planning in China, i.e., the politics-oriented city, the economy-oriented city and the human-oriented cultural city. It makes objective evaluations of the development models of the politics-oriented city and the economy-oriented city. It suggests that relations between the government and the market should be straightened out to solve the hangovers of the development model of the politics-oriented city, and eco-civilization development and cultural development should be put on the top of the governments agenda in order to cope with the recurring problems and complications brought about by the development model of the economy-oriented city.
Part I Theory Construction and Model Exploration.- Chapter 1 The CPCs
Urban Thought Exploration.- Chapter 2 Construction of Urban Development
Models in the PRC.- Chapter 3 Interpretation of Several Important
Documents.- Part II Urban Issues and Chinese Discourse.- Chapter 4 Chinas
Urbanization Since Reform and Opening-up.- Chapter 5 Planning and
Construction of City Clusters Since Reform and Opening-up.- Chapter 6
Planning and Construction of Chinas International Metropolises.- Chapter 7
Planning and Construction of A Socialist New Countryside and City
Cluster.- Chapter 8 Construction of New Towns and New Areas in
China.- Chapter 9 An Innovative Pattern of Characteristic Cultural
City.- Chapter 10 Chinese Path to Urbanization and Its Present
Challenges.- Chapter 11 The Basic Category and Relation Interpretation of
Chinas Urbanization Process.- Chapter 12 Cultural City and Development
Strategy of Guangxi BeibuGulf Economic Zone.- Chapter 13 Cultural City
Cluster and the Leapfrog Development of the Central Plains Economic
Zone.- Chapter 14 Development Status and Strategic Design of Chinas Silk
Road City Cluster.- Chapter 15 Five Development Concepts Guide Shanghais
All-Round and Higher-Level Development.- Chapter 16 Strategic Interpretation
and Strategic Planning of Xiongan New Area.- Conclusion: Urban Science
Construction and Urban Enlightenment of the Chinese Nation.
Liu Shilin, PhD, Professor in School of Media & Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has served as an expert member of the national "13th Five-Year Plan" development plan, and the person in charge of the "Annual Report on China's Urbanization Process" by the Ministry of Education. His research interests are urban science and cultural communication.