The City in China : : New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism /

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

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 o...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 30 Black and White
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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

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