Foreword Part 1 General Overview 1.1 A shortage of natural resources has become a bottleneck for urban development 1.2 The deterioration of living environment has affected urban residents‘ living quality 1.3 “Image projects” reflect a number of structural contradictions 1.4 Frequent occurrence of public safety incidents call for legal and institutional innovations 1.5 A more clear-cut social stratification makes it necessary to adopt innovative urban management systems 1.6 Insufficient urban public finance makes a sustainable urban development strategy urgent 1.7 Inefficient urban public policies reflect challenges in government management reform Part 2 Natural Resources 2.1 Main problems related to natural resources 2.2 The history and causes of the problems 2.3 Advice on alleviating the conflicts between supply and demand of resources Part 3 Living Environment 3.1 The main problems identified in the urban living environment 3.2 Origins of problems concerning the urban habitable environment 3.3 Solutions and suggestions Part 4 Image Projects 4.1 Image projects in urban construction 4.2 Historical background for the prevalence of image projects in cities 4.3 Measures of stopping image projects Part 5 Public Safety 5.1 Challenges facing city public safety 5.2 Cause analysis of city public safety problems 5.3 Suggestions on making policies on city public safety Part 6 Social Stratification 6.1 New social stratification structure appears in china 6.2 Irrational income distribution: Long-term hidden issue in social stratification 6.3 Imbalanced system: Intensifier of hidden hazards caused by social stratification 6.4 Concept renovation and system reform Part 7 Public Finance in Urban Government 7.1 Principal issues of current urban public finance 7.2 Cause analysis of the problems in urban public finance 7.3 Further reform of urban public finance Part 8 Public Policies 8.1 City public policies in China 8.2 Studies of public policies on city planning 8.3 Procedure of policy-making and city planning 8.4 Suggestions on improving city planning