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Resulting from a doctoral dissertation in Urban and Regional Planning, supervised by Professor Hipólita Siqueira de Oliveira and co-supervised by Professor Elias Marco Khalil Jabbour, the book, published by Letra Capital, demonstrates that Chinese economic and social development has, as one of its strategic elements, political and governmental intervention through the implementation of plans and projects with territorial scope and impacts.

Urban and regional planning emerges as one of the main drivers of development in that country, manifesting itself in a regionalized urbanization process based on infrastructure and urban and transport projects that make it possible to enhance the country’s productive forces and improve living conditions for society.

A paradigmatic example presented here is the construction of the high-speed rail system, which in just 20 years expanded from zero to approximately 40,000 km of lines spread across the national territory, connecting the country’s main cities and metropolitan regions, boosting the economy and benefiting the population.

Thus, this book also represents a synthesis, while serving as a starting point for an ongoing scientific trajectory. This trajectory is committed to proposing ideas, pathways, and possible solutions to the most pressing Brazilian problems and challenges. In this sense, the book is also a kind of manifesto in favor of urban and regional development planning as a pathway to national development. It seeks to shed light on issues and perspectives that have long been set aside or neglected and that, in the author’s view—perhaps due to the dialectical force of life—resurface in a very evident way, as if imposed by reality itself and by the succession of events that shape history.

Access the book here.