Book review - High speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography: impact assessment from the regional science perspective

edited by Zhenhua Chen, Kinsley E. Haynes with Yulong Zhou and Zhaoxin Dai, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2019, 328 pp., Web: £81.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78536-603-1(cased), ISBN: 978-1-78536-604-8

Review (2020)

Authors

Y. Chen Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Urban Development Management (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

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Management in the Built Environment

Research Group

Urban Development Management

Abstract

The rapid growth of high-speed rail (HSR) in China has impressed the world. Following the admiration, critics also raised a series of questions arranging from financial consequence to environmental, spatial and social issues. HSR and China’s New Economic Geography: Impact assessment from the regional science perspective, edited by Zhenhua Chen, Kinsley E. Haynes with Yulong Zhou and Zhaoxin Dai, provides a comprehensive overview as well as in-depth explanation of the regional effects of HSR development on China’s economic geography.