Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China (eBook)

New Housing Opportunities for Migrant Workers

Ran Liu (Autor)

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2024
326 Seiten
Springer Nature Switzerland (Verlag)
978-3-031-61664-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the city” as a largely property-based concept that falls within the city’s hybrid tenure matrix of varying degrees of tenure security and formality that is undergoing entrepreneurialization or gentrification. This is another highly valuable contribution to China studies from the geographical perspective of the “territorial politics” at play in the process of urban village redevelopment, which has fostered a new propertied landowning class as winners, while moving low-wage migrants. The book takes the reader on a fascinating journey from peri-urban villages to IT worker villages to artists’ villages, revealing a restless landscape of urbanism and state-centered governance, as well as bottom-up counterplots. The fieldwork explores the contradictions of urban village redevelopment in Beijing. On the one hand, it is state-dominated and yet creates new housing opportunities for migrants; on the other, it disrupts old orders but also encourages new forms of grassroots alliances. The empirical studies of Beijing’s urban villages enrich Henry Lefebvre’s discourse on “planetary urbanisation,” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion of the “rhizome,” and Elinor Ostrom’s ideas on the wise management of the “commons.”

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2024
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 326 p. 109 illus., 99 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Artists and Urban Villages in Beijing • Artist Villages in Beijing • Formality vs. Informality Dialectics in the Urban Village • “Geography of Opportunity” of Migrant Housing in Beijing • Henri Lefebvre, Planetary Urbanization, and Urban Village • Henri Lefebvre, Right to the City, and Urban Village • Housing Opportunities of Migrant Workers in Beijing • IT Workers and Urban Villages in Beijing • IT Worker Villages in Beijing • Territorial Politics in Urban Villages in Beijing • Urban Village Redevelopment and Gentrification • Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing
• ISBN-10: 3-031-61664-2 / 3031616642
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-61664-8 / 9783031616648