Restructuring the Chinese city : changing society, economy and space / / edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Fulong Wu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783995903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-31608-9; 1-134-31609-7; 1-280-26742-9; 9786610267422; 0-203-41446-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Classificazione: 74.72
• Altri autori (Persone): MaLaurence J. C. <1937->; WuFulong
• Disciplina: 307.1/216/0951
• Soggetti: City planning - China; Sociology, Urban - China; China Economic conditions 2000-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Restructuring the Chinese City; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Restructuring the Chinese city: diverse processes and reconstituted spaces: Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu; 2. City-space: scale relations and China's spatial administrative hierarchy: Carolyn Cartier; 3. Space, scale and the state: reorganizing urban space in China: Jianfa Shen; 4. Dual land market and internal spatial structure of Chinese cities: Anthony Gar-On Yeh; 5. Irregular trajectories: illegal building in mainland China and Hong Kong: Alan Smart and Wing-Shing Tang6. Globalization and the development of new central business districts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou: Piper Gaubatz; 7. Historical memory, community-building and place-making in neighborhood Shanghai: Tianshu Pan; 8. Uneven development among Shanghai's three urban districts: Tingwei Zhang; 9. Industrial restructuring and urban spatial transformation in Xi'an: Huaiting Yin, Xiaoping Shen and Zhe Zhao; 10. Residential mobility and ; urban change in China: Si-Ming Li; 11. From work-unit compounds to gated communities: housing inequality and residential segregation in transitional Beijing: Youqin Huang12. Migrant residential distribution and metropolitan spatial development in Shanghai: Weiping Wu; 13. Migrant enclaves and impacts of redevelopment policy in Chinese cities: Li Zhang; 14. The Chinese city in transition: towards theorizing China's urban restructuring : Fulong Wu and Laurence J. C. Ma; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.