China's urban transition / John Friedmann.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xxv, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0816646147
- 9780816646142
- 0816646155
- 9780816646159
- 307.760951 22
- HT384.C6 F75 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- --
Introduction : becoming urban in China -- 1. Historical traces -- 2. Regional policies -- 3. Urbanization of the countryside -- 4. New spatial mobilities -- 5. Expanding spaces of personal autonomy -- 6. The governance of city-building -- Conclusion : backward into the future.
China has an urban history stretching back more than 5,000 years, but it is only very recently that the country has undergone urbanisation on the scale of a widespread social transformation. This study takes a look at this phenomenon in the context of rapid economic development.
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