The urbanization of China has become an urgent task for the economy and a development priority for the Chinese administration, especially following the country's adhesion to the World Trade Organization. These papers explore the process of urbanization in great detail.

This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges facing the Chinese government. Urban Transformation in China draws on the consideration of the changing pattern of China's urban population and the determinants of these changes including an analysis of the spatial structures of the country's cities and industry and an assessment of urban productivity growth and the role of mega cities in national development.

'There are interesting data and analysis and for the first time readers are exposed to China's urban transformation.' Built Environment '...essential reading for students of the development of Chinese society in its period of rapid industrialization and urbanization.' Asia-Pacific Business Review '...many developments anticipated in the papers of this book have become reality rather sooner than expected...Urban Transformation in China helps to understand the development of urbanization in China and its major consequences for the social and spatial structure of Mainland China today.' ASIEN - The German Journal on Contemporary Asia