China needs a new model of urbanisation to match the shift to a new model of growth. For decades, both urbanisation and growth have been based on robust export demand, cheap labour, cheap land and artificially low pricing of environmental externalities. None of these can support growth or urban...

Post-reform urban conditions -- Establishing the land market -- Establishing the housing market -- Market configuration and actors in urban development -- State, governance, and land management -- Changing city planning : from resource allocation to place promotion -- Entrepreneurial city and...