Abstract
Over the last couple of decades, urban areas around the world have been engaged in increasing initiatives, practices and experiments with a view to achieve social, economical and environmental sustainability. Echoing with these movements, sustainable urbanization has entered the policy agendas. In practice, various focus aspects including eco-environment protection, land development, housing, policy, population growth and migration and energy utilization have been coded and discussed from different sources of journals. In China’s context, these terms/keywords arise across different scales and types of cities, which would have implications for how these types of cities are understood theoretically in terms of sustainable urbanization. In response, this paper intends to conduct a comprehensive literature review to further explore three key areas including evaluation, innovative solutions and engagement of all stakeholders that will move forward the sustainable urbanization across cities scales in China.
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This research was supported by (1) The Departmental Research Fund for New Academic Staff (Project No.: 4-ZZDX) of the Department of Building & Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; (2) MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences “The Operational Risk Pressure and Resilient Response Strategies of the Complex Urban Public Spaces” (No. 17YJC630189).
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Tan, Y.T., Xu, H. (2018). A Literature Review of Sustainable Urbanization in China. In: Chau, K., Chan, I., Lu, W., Webster, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_9
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