Richard Hu is a professor at the Canberra Business School, University of Canberra. He is the author of The Shenzhen Phenomenon: From Fishing Village to Global Knowledge City (2020) and Smart Design: Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces (2021), as well as the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities (2023), among other books.

• Abbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

The path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future.

Richard Hu is a professor at the Canberra Business School, University of Canberra. He is the author of The Shenzhen Phenomenon: From Fishing Village to Global Knowledge City (2020) and Smart Design: Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces (2021), as well as the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities (2023), among other books.

• Abbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

The path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future.

Richard Hu is a professor at the Canberra Business School, University of Canberra. He is the author of The Shenzhen Phenomenon: From Fishing Village to Global Knowledge City (2020) and Smart Design: Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces (2021), as well as the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities (2023), among other books.

• Abbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

The path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future.