This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21^st century. China is in the midst of a historic developmental inflection point, grappling with a significantly slowing economy, rapidly rising inequality, massive migration, skyrocketing housing prices, alarming environmental problems, and strong pushback from the West. In this volume, Western and Chinese scholars in different disciplines offer the clearest look yet at some of the main challenges China faces, including domestic and international contexts, the new urban development model, inclusion and well-being of migrants and their families, and urban sustainability. This book sheds light on Chinäs ongoing development and future directions, and has strong policy implications for anyone interested in the future of China.

Youqin Huang is a Professor of Geography at University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is the co-author of several books including Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (2014), China's Geography (2015), and Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China (2016).

1. Introduction: New Urban Challenges in the Twenty-First Century.- Part I A New Domestic and International Context.- 2. Xi Jinping's Economic Policy and Chinese Urbanization.- 3. Chinese Cities in the World-System's City System: 2001-2014.- 4. Redeveloping Informal Settlements in China, India, and Brazil.- Part II The New Urban Economy.- 5. Urbanism in Chinese Local Development: An Institutional Approach.- 6. Private Participation in China's Infrastructure: Experience and Prospects.- 7. Path Dependency, Central-Local Dialectic, and Structure and Agency: How Has Yuhang Transformed from the Rural to the Urban?.- Part III Migrants' Inclusion and Affordable Housing.- 8. Migration, Family Arrangement, and Children's Health in China.- 9. The Spatial Impact of Population on Housing Price in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, China.- 10. Shantytown Tenants' Housing Choice in Beijing: A Perspective from the Consumer Equilibrium Theory.- 11. Double Aging: Conserving the Living Environment of Familiarity (LEF) to Mediate Between Aging People and Aging Buildings.- Part IV Urban Sustainability.- 12. Environmental Sustainability in Urban China.- 13. Unveil Urbanization 'Bubbles' in China: Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy.- 14. Evaluating Green Development Index in Ecologically Fragile Areas of China.