LEADER 03941nam 2200685 450 001 9910786488503321 005 20210311111955.0 010 $a1-350-21913-4 010 $a1-78032-144-9 010 $a1-283-75463-0 010 $a1-78032-143-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350219137 035 $a(CKB)2670000000278758 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000790339 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12336216 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000790339 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10746579 035 $a(PQKB)10902500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10626932 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL406713 035 $a(OCoLC)818848251 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350219137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069837 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000278758 100 $a20210311h20212012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChina's urban billion $ethe story behind the biggest migration in human history /$fTom Miller 210 1$aLondon, England :$cZed Books,$d2012. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2021 215 $aviii, 192 p. $cmap 225 1 $aAsian Arguments 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-78032-141-4 311 $a1-78032-142-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index. 327 $aAsian Arguments; About the Author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Map of China; Introduction: The Biggest Migration in Human History; 1 By the Sweat of Their Brows: The People Who Built Urban China; Box 1.1 Beijing's slum clearances; Box 1.2 School's out; 2 Passport to Purgatory: Fixing the Hukou System; Box 2.1 Down and out in Beijing; The Chongqing model: paying for the mayor's new clothes; Box 2.2 City livin'; Box 2.3 River town scrubs up; 3 Farm versus Factory: The Battle over Land; Box 3.1 Flogging the fields; Yours to sell: the great land-credit experiment. 327 $aBox 3.2 The beginning of the end for traditional farming?4 The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields; Box 4.1 Tier what?; Box 4.2 Scrabbling to fill the city coffers: the role of local government investment companies; Chengdu and Wuhan: hinterland dynamos; Box 4.3 Riding the stimulus express; Box 4.4 Home, sweet home; 5 Ghost Towns in the Desert: How China Builds Its Cities; Grey, ugly and congested: why are so many Chinese cities so horrible?; Box 5.1 Kingdom of subways; Box 5.2 Beijing: Urban squires, city paupers; Box 5.3 Hangzhou: preservation with Chinese characteristics. 327 $aBox 5.4 Tianjin: scrubbing upBox 5.5 Zhengzhou: the beauty in the beast; 6 A Billion Wallets: What China's New Urbanites Will and Won't Buy; Box 6.1 Want not, waste not; Box 6.2 Village life; Conclusion: Civilizing the Cities; Bibliography; Sources in English; Sources in Chinese; Index. 330 $aOver the past thirty years, China's cities became home to 500 million new residents. China's urban population is on track to reach 1 billion by 2030. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities. Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. 410 0$aAsian arguments. 606 $aRural-urban migration$zChina 606 $aUrbanization$zChina 606 $aHuman geography$2bicssc 615 0$aRural-urban migration 615 0$aUrbanization 615 7$aHuman geography 676 $a307.14160951 700 $aMiller$b Tom$c(Journalist),$01109070 801 0$bEBLCP 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786488503321 996 $aChina's urban billion$93858272 997 $aUNINA