Summary:  o c t o b e r 2 0 0 7 ·Land Lines ·LincoLn institute of Land PoLicy2
new Lincoln institute book
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nprecedentedurbanizationistak-
ingplaceinChinaandwillcon-
tinueoverthenextdecades.Chi-
na's level of urbanization rose from 18
percentin1978to30percentin1995and
to39percentin2002.itisexpectedthat
China will quadruple its total GdP and
reach55percentofurbanizationby2020.
urbanizationinChinaisacomprehen-
sive process involving transformations in
manyareas,includingthemanagementof
spatialexpansionviamodernurbanplan-
ning,theadministrationoflandusechang-
esvialandpolicyreforms,theprocessof
rural-to-urban migration, and the devel-
opmentofpublicfinancesystems.allof
thesechangesarepartofChina'stransi-

Source: Anisimov, Mikhail - Institute for Physical Science and Technology & Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

Collections: Physics; Materials Science