This course introduces students to China’s immense urban transformation process. The course is divided into three parts. Part A briefly reviews the urbanization process. It deals with questions such as the nature of the urbanization process before and after reform, and the question of hukou and rural to urban migration. Part B is on the internal structure of Chinese cities, focusing on urban land development. China’s changing land use structure will be studied from various theoretical and methodological perspectives. Part C is on China’s urban housing. The changing pattern of housing consumption is analysed in light of changing institutional contexts and China’s phenomenal economic growth.