The City in China : : New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism / / ed. by Ray Forrest, Julie Ren, Bart Wissink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Chen, Juan,; Forrest, Ray,; Gransow, Bettina,; Li, Zhigang,; Liu, Shuo,; Lui, Tai-lok,; Nijman, Jan,; Ou, Shunxian,; O’Donnell, Mary Ann,; Ren, Julie,; Ren, Xuefei,; Wang, Zheng,; Wissink, Bart,; Wu, Fulong,; Wu, Rong,; Xie, Shenghua,; de Kloet, Jeroen,
• HerausgeberIn: Forrest, Ray,; Ren, Julie,; Wissink, Bart,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 30 Black and White

In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment”. This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades. Given that China’s urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once belonged to American cities, Park’s essay is a platform and point of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park’s (ir)relevance today – for cities in China, for questions about the social life of the city and for urban research more generally. Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers and planners.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Robert Park in China -- “Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls” -- Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City -- Learning from Chicago (and LA)? -- From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham -- Urbanization and Economic Development -- The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency -- Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness -- Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing -- A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen -- The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China -- Conclusion -- Index