This book studies China's urbanization with the theory of production of space. The authors redefine the production of space and build a new theoretical framework for understanding the evolving relations between urbanization and spatial production. Since the reform and opening-up, especially in the last twenty years, the logic of spatial production has dominated China's urbanization. The authors choose the most representative cases, such as the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration, Jiangsu Province, National High-tech Industrial Development Zone, New Urban District, State-Level New Area, University Town, and some villages, to conduct a series of empirical studies on production of space at the macro-, meso-, and micro-scales. Through an in-depth analysis of the interaction between social spaces and urbanization influenced by power, capital, and class, the book reveals that the essence of China's urbanization is dominated by the logic of spatial production. The authors finally proposethat an important shift toward humanism should be made in the future development of China's new-type urbanization, emphasizing more even and adequate development between different regions and between urban and rural areas, which also provides new ideas for the theory and practice of urbanization worldwide.

This book can be read and referenced by researchers in the fields of urban and regional studies, geography, sociology, urban and rural planning, management, etc. It can also be used as a teaching reference book for teachers, researchers, and students of scientific research institutions in related fields.

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Chao Ye, male, is a professor and Ph.D. tutor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. He is also a "Young Changjiang Scholar" of the Ministry of Education of China and a distinguished professor at Northwest Normal University and Anhui Jianzhu University. He is mainly engaged in urban and rural development and the production of space, history and methods of geography and cultural geography. He won the second prize of the 13th & 12th Shanghai Decision-making Consultation Achievement Award and the 13th National Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award of China Geographical Society. He has published over 130 papers in famous international journals such as Nature, Science Bulletin, Habitat International, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Rural Studies as well as some Chinese flag journals. He has published the English monograph A Theory and History of Rural urban Governance in China, which won the second prize of the 13th Outstanding Achievements of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai. He published a Chinese translation of the classic book Social Justice and the City. Liang Zhuang, male, is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. He is mainly engaged in sustainable urbanization and the production of space, regional development and urban rural governance, and geographic information science. He is a member of the Geographical Society of China and a member of the Association of American Geographers. In recent years, he has published 18 papers in Land Use Policy, Journal of Geographical Sciences, Scientometrics, Acta Geographica Sinica as well as other authoritative journals at home and abroad. He has presided over and participated in more than 20 related important scientific research projects. He won the second prize of the 13th & 12th Shanghai Decision-making Consultation Achievement Award and the National Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates in China and other important awards and honors.