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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Forrest, Ray (Editor), Ren, Julie (Editor), Wissink, Bart (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.