Contents

Introduction, Yan Song and Chengri Ding

I. Urban Planning in the Face of Urbanization

1. Urban Development Patterns in China: New, Renewed, and Ignored Urban Spaces, Tingwei Zhang

2. Value Capture Through Integrated Land Use–Transit Development: Experience from Hong Kong, Taipei, and Shanghai, Ming Zhang

3. Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning: Are They Applicable in China?, Paul Cheshire

II. Land Policy

4. Policy and Praxis of Land Acquisition in China, Chengri Ding

5. Assessing Farmland Protection Policy in China, Erik Lichtenberg and Chengri Ding

6. Managing China’s Arable Land Resources in an Era of Sustainability, Robert Ash

III. Rural-to-Urban Migration and Its Implications

7. The Role of China’s Urbanizing Villages in Housing Rural Migrants, Yan Song, Yves Zenou, and Chengri Ding

8. Chengzhongcun: China’s Urbanizing Villages from Multiple Perspectives, Michael Leaf

9. Housing Rural Migrants in Urban China: Lessons from the United States, Roberto G. Quercia and Yan Song

10.Efficiency in China’s Urban Labor Markets, Jeffrey S. Zax

Part IV. Financing China’s Urbanization

11. Public Finance Challenges for Chinese Urban Development, Randall Crane

12. Urban Infrastructure and Financing in China, Weiping Wu

13. Non-Performing Loan Resolution in the Context of China’s Transitional Economy, Bing Wang and Richard Peiser