Peri-urban China: land use, growth, and integrated urban-rural development

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop.

Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating peri-urban area development.

Chapters in this book explore how rural industrialization has changed the landscape and rules about land use in peri-urban areas.

It looks at the role of rural industrialization and provides a detailed exploration of peri-urbanization theory, policy, and its evolution in China.

Leading discussions find out how fragmented bottom-up industrialization, urbanization, and lax governance have led to a series of social and environmental problems.

The progress in redevelopment of peri-urban areas was initially slow due to the spatial lock-in effect.