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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814156903321

Autore

Friedmann John

Titolo

China's urban transition / / John Friedmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9749-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Classificazione

74.72

Disciplina

307.760951

Soggetti

Urbanization - China

Local government - China

Civil society - 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

Becoming urban in China -- Historical traces -- Regional policies -- Urbanization of the countryside -- New spatial mobilities -- Expanding spaces of personal autonomy -- The governance of city-building -- Backward into the future.

Sommario/riassunto

It is only in the past quarter century that urbanization has emerged in China as a force of social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics, and economy. China's Urban Transition synthesizes research to provide the first integrated treatment of the processes that encompass the meaning of urbanization.