Full Description
In recent decades, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an overwhelmingly rural population to that of a predominantly urban one. This major new Handbook examines and explores the key features and implications of this urbanising process from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Using three overarching themes - progress and enhancement, dislocation and tension, and the unique features of Chinese urban development - leading experts in the field provide a contemporary analysis of critical issues affecting China today. This includes the nature of urban change, governance and migration, and how this has impacted the politics, culture, economy and environment. Unprecedented in depth and breadth, contributors both from within mainland China and across the globe offer varied analyses and perspectives of continuity and reform in policies that allow China to continue to evolve. Sections also cover individuality, the urban-rural interface and possible future policy directions, with crucial discussion about continuing urbanisation in an increasingly interconnected world.
Essential reading for academics and students of urban and Chinese studies, this Handbook provides a timely and much needed reference work for those who want to better understand China's urbanisation experiences.
Contributors include: A.-M. Broudehoux, Y. Cai, K.W. Chan, F. Chen, L. Chen, E. Cheng, H. Chiang, M.Y. Cho, B. Guan, D.R. Hammond, P. Hao, T. Heberer, T. Johnson, K. Kan, G. Lang, V.J. Li, S. Liu,Y. Liu, T.-l. Lui, B. Miao, J. Qian, L. Tao, J. Wang, L. Wang, B. Wissink, R.W.Y. Wong, Y. Wu, X. Yang, R. Yep, X. Zhang
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Development in China: Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics
Ray Yep, Jun Wang and Thomas Johnson
PART I INSTITUTIONAL SETTING
2. Planning for Urban Visions: The Case of Shanghai 2040 Master Plan
Lan Wang
3. Land-based finance: how revenue concern drives urbanization
Yuyang Liu
4. China's Hukou System at 60: Continuity and Reform
Kam Wing Chan
PART II POLICY DIRECTIONS
5. China's Urban Housing: Past and Present
Pu Hao
6. Public Discussion, Political Support and Vision for Low-carbon Sustainable Cities in China: A Toolkit for Policy Makers, NGOs and the Public
Miao Bo and Graeme Lang
7. Re-imaging Beijing: The Making and Selling of a Post-Socialist Chinese Metropolis
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
8. Transformation of Chinese Cities and City-Regions in the Era of Globalization
Xu Zhang
PART III INDIVIDUALITY AND PRIVATE PURSUIT
9. Making urban public space amidst modern Chinese urbanism
Junxi Qian
10. Enclave urbanism in China: A relational comparative view
Bart Wissink
11. Gay and Lesbian Communities in Urban China
Howard Chiang
12. Geography of Chinese rock and roll: cultural, political and economic forces intertwined
Jun Wang and Li Chen
13. The Urban Middle Class
Tai-lok Lui and Shuo Liu
PART IV URBAN-RURAL INTERFACE
14. Urban Villages in China: Historical and Institutional Perspectives
Jing Li and Li Tao
15. Gated villages: community governance and social order in China's urban villages
Karita Kan and Rebecca W.Y. Wong
16. Informal Migrant Settlements and Urban Grassroots Stability
Edmund W. Cheng
17. Transferring Land Developmental Rights across the Urban-Rural Divide: Common Practice and the Chongqing Exception
Ray Yep
18. The Transformation of Identification and Community Sense of New Urbanites in "Village-turned-Community"
Ying Wu
PART V MOBILIZATION AND GOVERNANCE
19. Seeking Solutions: How Local Governments Handle Collective Labour Disputes
Xuehui Yang and Feng Chen
20. Environmental Protest in Urban China
Thomas Johnson
21. Urban social assistance in China: Reflecting changing urban development?
Daniel R. Hammond
22. "Urban Neighborhood Communities" (Shequ) as new institutions of urban governance
Thomas Heberer
23. Interests and Political Participation in Urban China: The Case of Residents' Committee Elections
Bing Guan and Yongshun Cai
24. Neighborhood Governance through Community Social Work
Mun Young Cho
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