“Out of the Lincoln Institute’s long-lasting involvement in China’s land policy studies, this book is a new addition to its publication series. It provides the most updated review of urbanization trends in China, and it is a balanced review. The authors understand urbanization as a package including land and housing market developments and changing means of financing to develop urban assets. With a lineup of renowned and active China specialists as authors, the book examines a wide range of issues in the country’s urbanization processes, and it is a fine collection of well-written chapters by authorities in their fields of study.”

Introduction, Yan Song and Chengri Ding

I. Urban Planning in the Face of Urbanization
1. Urban Development Patterns in China: New, Renewed, and Ignored Urban Spaces, Tingwei Zhang
2. Value Capture Through Integrated Land Use–Transit Development: Experience from Hong Kong, Taipei, and Shanghai, Ming Zhang
3. Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning: Are They Applicable in China?, Paul Cheshire

II. Land Policy
4. Policy and Praxis of Land Acquisition in China, Chengri Ding
5. Assessing Farmland Protection Policy in China, Erik Lichtenberg and Chengri Ding
6. Managing China’s Arable Land Resources in an Era of Sustainability, Robert Ash

III. Rural-to-Urban Migration and Its Implications
7. The Role of China’s Urbanizing Villages in Housing Rural Migrants, Yan Song, Yves Zenou, and Chengri Ding
8. Chengzhongcun: China’s Urbanizing Villages from Multiple Perspectives, Michael Leaf
9. Housing Rural Migrants in Urban China: Lessons from the United States, Roberto G. Quercia and Yan Song
10.Efficiency in China’s Urban Labor Markets, Jeffrey S. Zax

IV. Financing China’s Urbanization
11. Public Finance Challenges for Chinese Urban Development, Randall Crane
12. Urban Infrastructure and Financing in China, Weiping Wu
13. Non-Performing Loan Resolution in the Context of China’s Transitional Economy, Bing Wang and Richard Peiser

Conclusion, Yan Song and Chengri Ding