Author(s)

Zhentao Ma

School of Politics and Public Administration, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, China.

China’s urbanization is generally considered to be a low-cost mode. The price distortion of land, labor, capital and other factors is the main manifestation and crux of low-cost urbanization, which successfully avoided the common problems such as large-scale urban poverty, unemployment and slums in the process of development, but also contributed to the inefficiency of urban expansion and the inequity of dualistic structure. With the advancement of urbanization, the production and living costs of big cities continue to be high, which contributes to the increase of people’s survival and living costs. Based on Rawls’ “Curtain of Ignorance” justice concept, this paper argues that attention should be paid to the low-income groups who are in a disadvantaged position in society based on the bottom line thinking, focusing on the underpinning function of public policy, to build a low living cost urbanization model designed to benefit the people, and truly achieve “co-construction, sharing and benefiting”.

Urbanization, Low Living Cost Mode, The Veil of Ignorance

Ma, Z. (2020) The Framework of Urbanization with Low Living Cost: A Future Model Based on Cost Perspective. Current Urban Studies, 8, 645-657. doi: 10.4236/cus.2020.84035.