END 331—Urban China in Transition

Introduces a multi-dimensional exploration of the new urban China. Reviews how China urbanized over 350 million people since 1980, and may add over an additional 300 million by 2040, leading to Chinese urbanization that is both immense and rapid, while concurrently ‘out of sync.? Understand how China?s urbanization is based on government policy, marketplace demands, and the Chinese public. Explores the varying government-marketplace-socioeconomic processes experimented in different cities, creating intended and unintended local problems. Through lectures, discussions, and projects, examines the unprecedented transformation of contemporary Chinese urban environments by investigating the trends and connections in the areas of population migration; public transportation and mobility; housing and suburbanization; community walkability; environmental impacts, and public health issues as a result of policies and technology advances. Considers the evolving nature of the challenges and responses, both formal (e.g. environmental design, planning, and development) as well as informal, across China?s 600+ cities.