Cities of Dragons and Elephants: Urbanization and Urban Development in China and India
Guanghua Wan & Ming Lu
城市化是经济发展中最重要的现象之一。在过去30年里，亚洲城市人口增长了近10亿，这一数字预计将在未来30年翻一番。显然，亚洲城市化的规模和速度都是人类历史上前所未有的，并将主导全球城市化格局。而亚洲的城市化则由中国和印度这两个世界上人口最多、增长最快的经济体所主导。
《龙象之城——中国和印度的城市化和城市发展》（万广华与陆铭主编）：旨在解决城市化的两个最根本的问题：为什么城市化和在哪里城市化。由来自两国的顶级专家组成的团队，利用原始研究探索了城市化的速度和规模以及城市系统或不同规模城市的城市空间分布。它研究了城市化的各种驱动因素，包括收益和成本以及市场、政府和非政府组织的作用。
《龙象之城——中国和印度的城市化和城市发展》就劳动力市场、土地和住房市场、外国直接投资和资本市场、教育、环境、贫困和不平等提出了基于证据的政策建议。它利用印度和中国之间的相似之处得出结论，并对亚洲及其他地区的许多政府和机构产生重大影响。
Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development. In the past three decades, Asian urban populations expanded by almost one billion, a figure expected to double in the next three decades. Clearly, both the scale and pace of urbanization in Asia is unprecedented in human history and will dominate the global urbanization landscape. Asia's urbanization, in turn, is dominated by what is happening in China and India, the two most populous, fastest growing economies in the world.
Cities of Dragons and Elephants: Urbanization and Urban Development in China and India aims at addressing the two most fundamental issues of urbanization: why and where to urbanize. Contributed by a team of top experts from both countries, it uses original research to explore both the speed and scale of urbanization and urban systems or spatial distribution of urbanities in different-sized citites. It examines various drivers of urbanization alongside the benefits and costs and the role of markets, governments, and NGOs.
Cities of Dragons and Elephants presents evidence-based policy suggestions regarding the labor market, the land and housing market, FDI and the capital market, education, environment, poverty, and inequality. It uses the similarities betwen India and China to draw conclusions and implications of enormous relevance to many governments and institutions in Asia and beyond.
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