Books in the Critical Concepts in Urban Studies series

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Urban Studies, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on global cities.

Deals with the research output on regeneration and renewal as a significant historical and contemporary urban process of economic, social, cultural, and political importance.

Since the "Opening Up" period of 1978-80, China has urbanized with unprecedented speed. This collection, organized chronologically and thematically, will allow easy access to key works on Chinese urbanization covering a range of topics, clarifying the shifting and often confusing terrain of urban scholarship on China.