For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts … addition of newly cultivated land in China through land development has consistently exceeded land conversion. In a model …

Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land … greater variation in urban densities (leveraging already high densities in urban China - one-third the global median), less …

contribute to Chinese urbanization. Finally, we show that better institutions in Concessions facilitated the emergence of modern … road networks in Chinese cities that persist today and contribute to Chinese urbanization. …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …