Preface: Urbanization Based on China’s National Conditions

Abstract

Traditional urbanization is the urbanization pattern of early-industrialized countries with developed markets. At that time, urbanization and industrialization were basically synchronized with neither overall planning nor scientific concept of urban scale. The municipal leading group did not take sustainable economic and social development into consideration, and it was too late to change the urban status quo when residents’ living quality began to decline due to the lack of tremendous public investment and newly-industrialized countries can hardly prevent the ills of urbanization even though they have recognized it. As a result, both the early-industrialized and urbanized countries and newly-industrialized countries have experienced so-called “urban ills”, i.e., a large rural population flooded into cities with shanty towns or slums arising in urban areas.