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With a case study of Chaonan in Guangdong Province, this study examines China's desakota and its planning paradigm. After three decades of high-speed growth, the marginal areas of Guangdong Province — the lab of China's market-oriented reform and open door policy, are still fraught with desakotas, semi-urbanized areas of mixed landscape, economic and administrative systems. Chaonan faces a number...
China has witnessed a surge of rural-urban migrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their own lives in host cities, and no study has been undertaken to link migrants' subjective wellbeing with their residential environments. Using the data collected...
The thesis of social polarization in the global city has been debated for a decade, though there are few studies of cities playing major global roles in developing countries in general and cities in transitional economies in particular. This paper investigates the socioeconomic transformation of Shanghai, an emerging global city in China. From 1990 to 2000, a significant loss of occupation occurred...
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