A Literature Review of Sustainable Urbanization in China

Over the last couple of decades, urban areas around the world have been engaged in increasing initiatives, practices and experiments with a view to achieve social, economical and environmental sustainability. Echoing with these movements, sustainable urbanization has entered the policy agendas. In practice, various focus aspects including eco-environment protection, land development, housing, policy, population growth and migration and energy utilization have been coded and discussed from different sources of journals. In China's context, these terms/keywords arise across different scales and types of cities, which would have implications for how these types of cities are understood theoretically in terms of sustainable urbanization. In response, this paper intends to conduct a comprehensive literature review to further explore three key areas including evaluation, innovative solutions and engagement of all stakeholders that will move forward the sustainable urbanization across cities scales in China