Abstract
Since the reform and opening, China has been undergoing unprecedentedly rapid economic growth and fast urbanization, which was characterised as a unique outcome of “time-space compression” (Zhang and Chen in Urban Plann. Forum 6:10-21, 2010). In 2011, China has crossed the highly symbolic 50% urbanization threshold by compressing its urbanization journey in the last three decades to catch up with what took western countries nearly two hundred years to travel. This chapter introduces the research background, research objectives and questions, and outline for this book.
India needs to plan a little more, China a little less.……The problem [in China] is that by denying space for consumers to flourish and the private sector to develop fully, the state-centric plans are now a hindrance rather than a help to achieving key objectives on rebalancing the economy.
Harsh Joshi & Tom Orlik. (12 July 2011). Five-Year Itch for India and China, Wall Street Journal.
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Wang, L. (2019). Introduction. In: Changing Spatial Elements in Chinese Socio-economic Five-year Plan: from Project Layout to Spatial Planning. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1867-2_1
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