Remaking China's Great Cities: Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion

ISBN-13: 9780415695909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

Sam Liang

Opis

This text argues that the production of new urban spaces is a crucial means of state governance in contemporary urban China. The local officials reinforce their political and economic dominance by applying their visions of modernization and globalization to urban planning and regeneration.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Planning and Expansion 1. Urban planning and cellular urbanism 2. Utopian urban forms and linear urbanism  Part II: Housing and Culture 3. Reinventing home as private retreat 4. The developer’s real estate culture 5. Homeowner subjectivity and social stratification  Part III: Renewal and Conservation 6. Rebuilding political centers 7. Rebuilding urban slums 8. Spoliation and conservation 9. Epilogue: Resistance to capitalist urbanization

O autorze

Samuel Y. Liang is Associate Professor of Humanities and the Coordinator of Chinese Studies at Utah Valley University, USA.