The New Chinese City (eBook)

Globalization and Market Reform

John Logan (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
312 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9956-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.

Autor

John Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY and Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. He is the co-author of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (1987), Beyond the City Limits (1990) and Family Ties: Enduring Relations between Parents and their Grown Children (1996).

Inhalt

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Part I: Introduction to the New Chinese City:.

1. Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization,
Migration and Market Reform: John R Logan (University of
Albany).

2. The Present Situation and Prospective Development of the
Shanghai Urban Community: Duo Wu (East China Normal University) and
Taibin Li (Shanghai Young Administrative Cadres College).

3. The Development of the Chinese Metropolis in the Period of
Transition: Xiaopei Yan (Zhongshan University), Li Jia (Zhongshan
University), Jianping Li (Zhongshan University) and Jizhuan Weng
(Zhongshan University).

Part II: Globalization and Urban Development:.

4. The Prospect of International Cities in China: Yixing Zhou
(Peking University).

5. An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Emerging Strategies for
(Inter-) Urban Competition in Hong Kong: Ngai-Ling Sum (University
of Lancaster).

6. The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Urban Region: An Emerging
Transnational Mode of Regulation or Just Muddling Through?: Alan
Smart (University of Calgary).

7. The State, Capital, and Urban Restructuring in Post-Reform
Shanghai: Zhengji Fu (King's College London).

8. The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaboration
between the China and Singapore Governments and Transnational
Corporations (1992-1999): Alexius Pereira (National University of
Singapore).

Part III: Market Reform and the New Processes fo Urban
Development:.

9. Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban
China: Min Zhou (University of California at Los Angeles) and John
R Logan (University of Albany).

10. Real Estate Development and the Transformation of Urban
Space in Chinese Transitional Economy: With Special Reference to
Shanghai: Fulong Wu (University of Southampton).

11. Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban
Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian: Daniel B
Abramson (University of British Colombia), Michael Leaf (University
of British Colombia) and Tan Ying (formerly Tsinghua
University).

Part IV: Urban Impacts of Migration:.

12. Migrant Enclaves in Chinese Large Cities: Fan Jie (Chinese
Academy of Sciences and Peking Normal University) and Wolfgang
Taubmann (University of Bremen).

13. Social Polarization and Segregation in Beijing: Chaolin Gu
(Nanjing University) and Haiyong Liu (University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill).

14. Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement
Patterns: Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University).

Part V: Urbanization of the Countryside:.

15. Return Migrant Entrepreneurs and Economic Diversification in
Two Counties in South Jiangxi, China: Rachel Murphy (University of
Cambridge).

16. Region-Based Urbanization in Post-Reform China: Spatial
Restructuring in the Pearl River Delta: George C S Lin (The
University of Hong Kong).

Bibliography.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Geographie • Geographie / Planung • Geography • Geography - Planning • Regionalgeographie • Regional Geography • Stadtgeographie • Urban Geography
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9956-X / 144439956X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9956-1 / 9781444399561