Böcker av Weiping Wu

"This book captures the impact of China's sweeping urbanization on its socioeconomic welfare, environment and resources, urban form and lifestyle, and population and health. The book provides new perspectives to understand China's transitions underway and the gravity of its progress in the context of demographic shifts and climate change"--

This text compares three Chinese cities - Shanghai, Tianjin and Quangzhou - in the context of the sweeping changes in China's economy, history and reform programmes, from the early-1980s to the mid-1990s. The authors study the factors which determine the industrial vigour of cities.