After millions of migrants moved from the countryside into the cities in China, there was huge pressure to redevelop their enclaves. This emerging urbanism gave way to a new built environment through demolition and the development of new towns, the migrants lives entered a transient phase from an informal to a formal urbanity. This book looks at the migrants and their enclaves, known as the 'villages in the city'. Through an examination of their neighbourhoods, it reveals the characteristics and changes in the migrants' livelihood and living places.

1. Migrants' Transient Urbanism in Urban China: An introduction Part 1: Migrants' Livelihoods in the City 2. The New Generation Migrant Workers in China 3. Chinese Cities and Mobile Livelihoods: Migration, risk and social networks 4. Outsiders in the City: Migrant housing and settlement patterns Part 2: Migrants' Social Lives in the City 5. Migrants' Job-search in Urban China: Social networks and the laour market 6. Situated Translocality in Flux Landscapes: Migrants and urban villages in the city of Guangzhou 7. Migrant Integration in China: Evidence from Guangzhou 8. Migrants' Integration in Urban Villages: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzou Part 3: Migrants' Habitat - Urbanized Villages 9. A tale of Foxconn City: Urban villages, migrant workers and alienated urbanism 10. Shanghai's Urban Villages: Migrants, temporary residence and urban redevelopment 11. Urban Villages as Local Economic Clusters: The case of Zhongda cloth market in Guangzhou 12. Spatial Evolution of Urban Villages in Shenzhen Part 4: Migrants' Transient Urbanism - Village Redevelopment 13. 'Three Olds Redevelopment' in Guangzhou 14. Symbolic Relations Between Urban Villages and the City: Implication for redevelopment strategies 15. Planning for chengzhongcun in Guangzhou and Shenzhen: Redevelopment in the Chinese context 16. Conclusion