Overview
Brings together the contributions of many leading scholars in the field of urbanization, urban planning and environmental policy in China
Draws a panoramic view of the rapid urbanization process in the past decades in China with each chapter dealing with a specific aspect of sustainable urbanization
Provides penetrating analyses and updated accounts of green urbanism in China in a comprehensive and systematic manner
A significant contribution to the literature on sustainable urbanism and how this is related to spatial governance in China and elsewhere
Essential reading for students and scholars interested in sustainability issues underpinning China’s massive urban revolution, as well as to planners, architects and other professionals whose works help steer the country’s urban developmental trajectories
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Theoretical Critique of the Sustainable Urbanism Narrative
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The Dynamics of “Glocal” Governance and Policy Mobility of Sustainable Urbanism
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Social Inclusiveness of Sustainable Urbanization in China
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About this book
This book addresses the ongoing global diffusion and diversification of sustainable urbanism discourses, debates and practices to portray, evaluate, remake and implement a sustainable form of urban development, using China as a national example. As eco-city practice becomes a city-branding instrument worldwide, this new urban development vision is also well embraced by Chinese local governments. In these contexts, the Chinese government has initiated and endorsed a number of massive projects to promote green urbanism, steering urbanization onto a more sustainable trajectory. The construction of these “ecotopias” involves a multitude of processes ranging from policy transfer/mobility to institutional design, from innovation in green technologies to the promotion of green buildings, and from policy implementation to public participation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
She won the Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence in 2011. She has published over 100 papers in leading peer-reviewed international academic journals, including 40 SSCI/SCI journal papers for Land Use Policy, Urban Studies, Cities, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, etc. Dr. Zhang also serves on the editorial board of several academic peer-reviewed journals. She is currently organizing and managing two special issues for the high-impact Journal of Cleaner Production on “Toward a Regenerative Sustainability Paradigm for the Built Environment: from Vision to Reality” and “Transitions to Sustainable Consumption and Production within Cities”.
Xiaoling is continuing her work on gentrification and jiaoyufication featured in China and has a longstanding interest in housing segregation, land expropriation, sustainable urbanism and environmental studies. Her recent theoretical interest has focused on environmental justice and unjust sustainability in China and is currently developing the themes in a paper on ‘Jiaoyufication, or education-led gentrification in Nanjing’ with Qiyan Wu from Shanghai Normal University. Research on housing studies is also in hand with Dr Helen Bao, Department of Land Economics, Cambridge University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remaking Sustainable Urbanism
Book Subtitle: Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban Era
Editors: Xiaoling Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3350-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3349-1Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3350-7Published: 25 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology