Aspects of Urbanization in China : : Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou / / ed. by Gregory Bracken.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arkaraprasertkul, Non,; Bracken, Gregory,; Dreyer, Jacob,; Guo, Xiangmin,; Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle,; Liu, Changtao,; Moya Pellitero, Ana M.,; Scheen, Lena,; Sklair, Leslie,; Solomon, Jonathan D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bracken, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS Publications ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

China's rise as a global power is one of the major economic and political developments of the past fifty years. One seemingly inevitable outcome of industrialization is urbanization, and this definitive study surveys the key aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization with an emphasis...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou
• GLOBAL AMBITIONS
• 2. Towards an Understanding of Architectural Iconicity in Global Perspective
• 3. Shanghai and the 2010 Expo: Staging the City
• 4. Guangzhou's Special Path to Global City Status
• CULTURAL EXPRESSION
• 5. Repairing the Rural-Urban Continuum: Cinema as Witness
• 6. Revisiting Hong Kong: Fruit Chan's 'Little Cheung'
• 7. Sensual, but No Clue of Politics: Shanghai's Longtang Houses
• ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION
• 8. Urbanization and Housing: Socio-Spatial Conflicts over Urban Space in Contemporary Shanghai
• 9. It Makes a Village: Hong Kong's Podium Shopping Malls as Global Villages
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index