Transforming Chinese Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415636650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 274 str.

Mark Y. Wang; Pookong Kee; Jia Gao

Opis

The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China's reform process and for the world more generally. This book presents recent research findings on China's continuing urban transformation. Subjects covered include the decline of the rural-urban divide, the spatial restructuring of Chinese urban centres and urban infrastructure, migrant workers, new housing and new communities, and "green" responses to urban environmental problems. The book is particularly valuable in that it includes much new work by scholars based inside China.

Spis treści

1. Challenging Developments in Urban China and Emerging Theoretical Perspectives  2. Diminishing Significance of Hukou and Decline of Rural-Urban Divide in China’s Social Policy Reforms  3. The Urbanization of Matter and the War of the Gods  4. Synergistic Evolution of Shanghai Urban Economic Development Transition and Social Spatial Structure  5. Transforming Oil-Mining Cities in Post-Reform China: A Case Study of Daqing  6. Wages and Employment Status of China’s Migrant Workers  7. Attitude, Systems of Identification and Distance: An Analysis of the Social Distance of Migrants and local Urban Residents  8. Home Perception and Home Making Strategy: The Struggle of Rural-Urban Migrant Women in Beijing and Shanghai  9. Gendered Identity and Voice: Chinese Female Migrant Domestic Workers’ Responses to Subordination  10. Schooling Migration in Urban China and its Effects on Migrants’ Social Connections  11. Planned Gated Community in Urban China: Outdoors Activities and Designed Leisure Spaces  12. The Governance Formation in Beijing’s Commercial Residential Areas  13. Spatial Planning Strategies for a Low Carbon City in China: Evidence from the Neighborhoods of Beijing  14. Industrial Development and Environmental Improvement in China: A Case Study on Liaoning Province

O autorze

Mark Y. Wang is a Professor in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Pookong Kee is Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Jia Gao is a Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia.