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Handbook on urban development in China / edited by Ray Yep, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, June Wang, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Thomas Johnson, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Handbooks of research on contemporary China | Handbooks of research on contemporary ChinaPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1786431629
  • 9781786431622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT 169.C6 H366 2019
Contents:
Part I. Instututional setting -- Part II. Policy directions -- Part III. Individuality and private pursuit -- Part IV. Urban-rural interface -- Part V. Mobilization and governance.
Summary: The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Instututional setting -- Part II. Policy directions -- Part III. Individuality and private pursuit -- Part IV. Urban-rural interface -- Part V. Mobilization and governance.

The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.

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