Date of Award

1-1-2019

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Zai Liang

Committee Members

Glenn Deane, Tse-Chuan Yang

Keywords

Urbanization, Housing, Real estate business, Real estate investment, Older people

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

Housing is the most important component of household assets in urban China. The economic strata increasingly depend on the distribution of assets rather than merely on the income, and the distribution of assets increasingly depends on the distribution of housing wealth in Chinese society. This unprecedentedly high status of housing is achieved in a rapid urbanization process. Situating itself in China’s urbanization and real estate boom, this dissertation looks into the contemporary housing distribution in urban China and reflects on the relationship between human-centered urbanization and built environment urbanization. It seeks to answer three questions. How might China’s land finance system affect the second homeownership and housing vacancy? Can China’s housing market be explained by demographics? How do people in China finance their homes?

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