Remaking Urban Life in Chongqing s Public Rental Housing follows migrant families through an ordinary day out the door for work and school, back after dark through night markets and shared courtyards to show how a large state-led public rental housing (PRH) program becomes a lived urban form. Drawing on ethnography, 120 interviews, and sustained site observations across multiple estates, the book links predictable rent and indefinite tenure to the practical work of composing routines, and then shows how transport reliability, school access, and the governance of streets and plazas...