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