cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have become less walkable. Objectives: We aim to develop a composite …

public services expenditure. In China, particularly, rapid urbanization is accompanied by an increase of urban public …

modern trams with other public transport modes. The Suzhou National High-tech District (SND) Tram is chosen as a … modes, public transport mobility is not competititve against car mobility. Lessons learnt from the Suzhou tram case include … confrontation and social unrest in dense urban areas. As a result, despite massive investment in tram and other public transport …

It is only in the past quarter century that urbanization has emerged in China as a force of social transformation while … a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics …, and economy. China's Urban Transition synthesizes research to provide the first integrated treatment of the processes that …