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China's urban billion [[electronic resource] ] : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / / Tom Miller
| China's urban billion [[electronic resource] ] : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / / Tom Miller |
| Autore | Miller Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Zed ; Palgrave, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 192 p. : map |
| Disciplina | 307.2/4/0951 |
| Collana | Asian arguments |
| Soggetto topico |
Rural-urban migration - China
Urbanization - China |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78032-144-9
1-283-75463-0 1-78032-143-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461960703321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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China's urban billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / / Tom Miller
| China's urban billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / / Tom Miller |
| Autore | Miller Tom |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Zed ; Palgrave, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 192 p. : map |
| Disciplina | 307.2/4/0951 |
| Collana | Asian arguments |
| Soggetto topico |
Rural-urban migration - China
Urbanization - China |
| ISBN |
1-350-21913-4
1-78032-144-9 1-283-75463-0 1-78032-143-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Asian 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.
Box 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. Box 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820542703321 |
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Miller Tom
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| London, : Zed ; Palgrave, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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