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This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world's most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.

Urban renewal --- Free ports and zones --- Municipal government --- Rénovation urbaine --- Zones et ports francs --- Administration municipale --- Congresses --- Shenzhen (Guangdong Sheng : East) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- China --- Shenzhen Jingji Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Chine --- S10/0520 --- S11/0470 --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Foreign trade zones --- Free harbors --- Free trade zones --- Free zones --- Zones, Free trade --- Free trade --- Harbors --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industry: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Cities: since 1949 --- Government --- Shenzhen Shi (China) --- Shen-chen ching chi tʻe chʻü (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shen-chen Special Economic Zone (Shen-chen shih, China) --- Shenzhen jing ji te qu (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shenzhen jing ji Tequ (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Shenzhen Special Zone (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Shenzhen Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- 深圳经济特区 (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- 深圳市 (China) --- Shenzhen Municipality (China) --- Shen-chen shih (China) --- Shen-chün shih (China) --- Shen-chen (Guangdong Sheng, China : Municipality) --- Shenzhen (Guangdong Sheng, China : Municipality) --- Bao'an Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China)

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An award-winning Hong Kong-based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People's Republic of China takes us to the Pearl River delta and into the heart of China's iconic Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen. Shenzhen is ground zero for the economic transformation China has seen in recent decades. In 1979, driven by China's widespread poverty, Deng Xiaoping supported a bold proposal to experiment with economic policies in a rural borderland next to Hong Kong. The site was designated as the City of Shenzhen and soon after became China's first Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Four decades later, Shenzhen is a megacity of twenty million, an internationally recognized digital technology hub, and the world's most successful economic zone. Some see it as a modern miracle city that seemingly came from nowhere, attributing its success solely to centralized planning and Shenzhen's proximity to Hong Kong. The Chinese government has built hundreds of new towns using the Shenzhen model, yet none has come close to replicating the city's level of economic success. But is it true that Shenzhen has no meaningful history? That the city was planned on a tabula rasa? That the region's rural past has had no significant impact on the urban present? Juan Du unravels the myth of Shenzhen and shows us how this world-famous "instant city" has a surprising history--filled with oyster fishermen, villages that remain encased within city blocks, a secret informal housing system--and how it has been catapulted to success as much by the ingenuity of its original farmers as by Beijing's policy makers. The Shenzhen Experiment is an important story for all rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nations around the world seeking to replicate China's economic success in the twenty-first century.

Urban renewal --- City planning --- S10/0680 --- S11/0470 --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Special Economic Zones and Development Zones --- China: Social sciences--Cities: since 1949 --- Government policy --- Management --- Shenzhen Shi (China) --- Shenzhen Jingji Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Shen-chen ching chi tʻe chʻü (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shen-chen Special Economic Zone (Shen-chen shih, China) --- Shenzhen jing ji te qu (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shenzhen jing ji Tequ (Shenzhen, Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Shenzhen Special Zone (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- Shenzhen Tequ (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- 深圳经济特区 (Shenzhen Shi, China) --- 深圳市 (China) --- Shenzhen Municipality (China) --- Shen-chen shih (China) --- Shen-chün shih (China) --- Shen-chen (Guangdong Sheng, China : Municipality) --- Shenzhen (Guangdong Sheng, China : Municipality) --- Bao'an Xian (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- History.