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The city in China : new perspectives on contemporary urbanism /
This book gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to actively engage with the challenge of conceptualising urban China and ask important questions about the development of contemporary global cities.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1. Robert Park in China: From the Chicago School to Urban China Studies; 2. "Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls": Robert Park and the Arc of Urban Sociology from Chicago to China; 3. Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City: Generating a Dialogue with Robert E. Park's "The City"; 4. Learning from Chicago (and LA)? The Contemporary Relevance of Western Urban Theory for China; 5. From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham: Zones of Transition and Dreams of Homeownership; 6. Urbanization and Economic Development: Comparing the Trajectories of China and the United States
- 7. The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency: Chicago, Shenzhen, and the Experience of Assimilation; 8. Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness; 9. Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing; 10. A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen: A Case of Foxconn; 11. The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China: Its Emergence and Formation; 12. Conclusion: Everyday Cities, Exceptional Cases; Index.