Giulio Verdini & Yiwen Wang 
Urban China’s Rural Fringe 
Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges

Giulio Verdini, Ph D in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Co-Director of the Research Institute of Urbanisation at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People’s Republic of China. Dr. Yiwen Wang, Ph D in Architecture from the University of Nottingham, is Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People’s Republic of China. Dr. Xiaonan Zhang, Ph D in Urban Geography at University of Salford, UK, is the former Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Xian Jiaotong- Liverpool University, People’s Republic of China.