Urban poverty represents one of the greatest and most urgent challenges that modern
society is facing. The criticality of this global issue is represented by a rapidly growing body …

Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, cities in the Global South have seen
extraordinary growth, with China and India as the epicenters of urbanization. This essay …

China's cities are home to 10 percent of the world's population today. They display
unprecedented dynamism under the country's surging economic power. Their remarkable …

Neighborhood attachment is an important factor that determines political and civic
participation, which further help to enhance neighborhood stability. This article explores this …

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …

This symposium brings together three empirical studies and one conceptual overview
examining the politics of redevelopment in contemporary I ndian cities. Collectively these …

Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as
socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan" Serve the People" has been a …

In the broader social science literature, most studies of social protection investigate welfare
in democracies, and at the national level, and typically assume that welfare is given in order …

Urban regeneration in China has attracted vast attention around the world in recent
decades. This article discusses several critical issues in China's recent urban regeneration …

This paper estimates urban and rural poverty rates across five Chinese province-level
administrative regions (Shanghai, Liaoning, Guangdong, Henan and Gansu) using …