Author(s)

Wenwei Zhu¹, Prosper Bernard Jr.^2*, Michel Plaisent³, James Ming-Hsun Chiang⁴

¹City Development Research Institute of China, Beijing, China.
²Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, City University of New York, New York, USA.
³Department of Management and Technology, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
⁴Research Center of Government Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Urbanization has been a transformative process in 21st century China. This paper seeks to examine the process of urbanization in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, specifically to identify the ways in which Wuxi City has engaged in new-type urbanization—an innovative pattern of urban development that seeks to integrate urban and rural development, achieve environmental sustainability, and provide for the wellbeing of an urbanized citizenry. The City’s model has potentially important reference value for other cities and towns in developed areas of China that are in the process of fashioning their own innovative pattern of urbanization.

China, Innovative Planning, New-Type Urbanization, Wuxi City

Zhu, W. , Bernard Jr., P. , Plaisent, M. and Chiang, J. (2014) Innovative Planning and New-Type Urbanization in China: The Case of Wuxi City in Jiangsu Province. Current Urban Studies, 2, 307-314. doi: 10.4236/cus.2014.24029.