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China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
Remaking Chinese urban form : Modernity, scarcity and space, 1949-2005
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In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…
Building globalization : Transnational architecture production in urban China
Abstract from the publisher : From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork,…
The urban code of China
NB : As of November 2010, the publisher's site is under construction. Details of the book are available from Amazon. Abstract from the publisher : In reading Chinese cities, as this volume attempts to do, the focus is not primarily on well-known…
Marginalization in urban China : Comparative perspectives
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Marginalization in urban China is a consequence of the processes that constrain the disadvantaged from making a claim to citizenship. This book provides insights into marginalization in Chinese cities, and enriches…
Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and…
Chinese city and urbanism : Evolution and development
The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization. The author uses historical dynasties as the vertical…
Native place, city, and nation: Regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937
Extract from the Introduction:
This study explores social practices and rituals related to xxiangyi , also called xiangqing and ziyi , Chinese expressions for the sentiment that binds people from the same native place. This sentiment, and the social…
Chinese cities and the outside world: A workshop for City, Culture and Society
Extract from the Introduction by Richard Croucher, Pingli Li and Hiroshi Okano: The articles make contributions on economic, social and cultural aspects of their subject and embody economic, social, historical and cultural perspectives. Michael…
The dynamics of urban growth in three Chinese cities
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The theme of this book is the interplay of geography, size, and industrial structure in determining the industrial vigor of cities. At any point in time, a city's economic prospects are determined by location,…
Connecting cities : China
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Beijing was the first city of modernity to reach one million - the benchmark to be a member of Metropolis. For the past millenium Chinese cities have ranked in the world's top three.
The importance…