I Revitalizing Central Cities -- 1. New Towns Intown -- 2. New Towns Intown in a National New-Communities Program -- 3. The Central City in the Postindustrial Age -- 4. Using the Arts to Improve Life in the City -- II Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Policy -- 5. A Framework for Dealing with...

This article is written specifically for students of Chinese urbanization who are not sinologists. Four theses should inform their studies. The first is that China is an ancient urban civilization, but the processes we observe today are unprecedented. Thus, China's urbanization must be studied...