Reshaping Global Urbanization

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This course provides the student with an extensive understanding of China's powerful role in shaping a new era of global urbanization. Having urbanized at the fastest pace, on the largest scale, and in the shortest time in human history, China has been 'building out' transport infrastructure, industrial zones, and municipal facilities into many countries. The course first assesses China's mode of urban development and its beneficial and problematic consequences. It then examines China's approach to and experience in urban and infrastructure construction in the Global South. The course concludes on the theoretical and policy implications of 'China-shaped' global urbanization. 001874