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3x3 Lecture Part VI, October 18, 2006 China’s urban and rural transformation is characterized by dynamic phenomena that question Western ways of analyzing the city, its culture and people. Two renowned scholars will analyze and discuss China’s transition by exploring the peri- urban condition and the creation of new urbanism in transitional Chinese cities. In these areas of urban expansion, where rural meets urban life, China reinvents itself, rural migrants man the industries located on the city’s edge, and young urban professionals move out to the urban periphery in search of the quiet life. Examine this new urbanism means understanding the interplay between state, market, and space. China’s market transition is used as a laboratory to observe these three inter-linked transformations. The multi-layered meaning of urbanization enables us to understand the causes and effects of, and the motives behind contemporary Chinese urban development.

JOHN FRIEDMANN FULONG WU PHOTOS