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SUMMARY:Urban Sustainability in China: Are We Moving Toward the Right Direction?
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 	Peilei Fan, Assistant Professor of Urban and 
 Regional Planning, Michigan State University\n
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 	Rapid 
 urbanization in the developing world 
 calls for attention to address the issue 
 of urban sustainability, especially in emerging 
 countries such as China, where social equity 
 and environmental conditions have been marginalized 
 by the rapid economic development. 
 In this seminar, I will introduce our work in 
 addressing this issue. First, we will answer 
 the following questions: (1) How did the sustainability 
 of Chinese cities evolve over time? 
 (2) What are the driving forces for the evolution? 
 By constructing a composite index that 
 incorporates three major aspects of sustainability, 
 economy, environment, and social equity, 
 we characterized the recent evolution of 
 Chinese cities and assessed the disparity among 
 regions in terms of the sustainability measures. 
 Further, we analyzed the driving forces 
 for the change of sustainability indices 
 through a driving force-pressure-state-effect 
 model. We substantiated our numerical analysis 
 of Chinese cities with a detailed case study 
 of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Autonomous 
 Region, which has experienced significant 
 change over the past three decades in every 
 aspect of sustainability. We highlight some fundamental 
 socioeconomic driving forces that 
 have caused spatial restructuring, reflected 
 by land-use change, and consequently impacted 
 the urban environment of Urumqi. A brief case 
 analysis of Guangzhou is also provided. Finally, 
 I will introduce some of our on-going research 
 that examines the urban sustainability 
 under future climate change, using Urumqi and 
 Shanghai as cases.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
 Contact email: guochen@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:207/208 Eustace-Cole Hall
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