Laurence J. C. Ma, Fulong Wu

Restructuring the Chinese City (eBook, ePUB)

Changing Society, Economy and Space

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134316083
• Artikelnr.: 40464752

Autorenporträt

Laurence J.C. Ma, for many years a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Akron, is currently an independent scholar residing in California. His work has been focused on China's urban development and population. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited eight books.

Fulong Wu has published many papers on urban spatial structure in Chinese cities, urban housing and land development. His numerous papers have appeared in such journals as Environment and Planning, Urban Studies and Urban Geography.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: Restructuring the Chinese City 2. Chinese Cities
in Transition 3. Space, Scale and the State: Re-Organizing Urban Space in
China 4. Dual Land Market and Internal Spatial Structure of Chinese Cities
5. Irregular Trajectories: Illegal Building on the Chinese Mainland and
Hong Kong 6. Globalization and the Development of New Central Business
Districts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou 7. Historical Memory,
Community-Building, and Place-Making in Neighborhood Shanghai 8.
Differences among Brothers: Urban Development in Three Shanghai Urban
Districts 9. Industrial Restructuring and Urban Spatial Transformation in
Xi'an 10. Form Work-Unit Compounds to Gated Communities: Housing Inequality
and Residential Segregation in Transitional Beijing 11. Migrant Residential
Distribution and Metropolitan Spatial Development in Shanghai
12. Chengzhongcun as Migrant Settlements and the Impacts of Development
Policy in Chinese Cities Conclusion: Beyond Urban China