Logan The New Chinese City

Globalization and Market Reform
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-71261-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Logan, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction to the New Chinese City:.
1. Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization,Migration and Market Reform: John R Logan (University ofAlbany).
2. The Present Situation and Prospective Development of theShanghai Urban Community: Duo Wu (East China Normal University) andTaibin Li (Shanghai Young Administrative Cadres College).
3. The Development of the Chinese Metropolis in the Period ofTransition: Xiaopei Yan (Zhongshan University), Li Jia (ZhongshanUniversity), Jianping Li (Zhongshan University) and Jizhuan Weng(Zhongshan University).
Part II: Globalization and Urban Development:.
4. The Prospect of International Cities in China: Yixing Zhou(Peking University).
5. An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Emerging Strategies for(Inter-) Urban Competition in Hong Kong: Ngai-Ling Sum (Universityof Lancaster).
6. The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Urban Region: An EmergingTransnational Mode of Regulation or Just Muddling Through?: AlanSmart (University of Calgary).
7. The State, Capital, and Urban Restructuring in Post-ReformShanghai: Zhengji Fu (King's College London).
8. The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaborationbetween the China and Singapore Governments and TransnationalCorporations (1992-1999): Alexius Pereira (National University ofSingapore).
Part III: Market Reform and the New Processes fo UrbanDevelopment:.
9. Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in UrbanChina: Min Zhou (University of California at Los Angeles) and JohnR Logan (University of Albany).
10. Real Estate Development and the Transformation of UrbanSpace in Chinese Transitional Economy: With Special Reference toShanghai: Fulong Wu (University of Southampton).
11. Social Research and the Localization of Chinese UrbanPlanning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian: Daniel BAbramson (University of British Colombia), Michael Leaf (Universityof British Colombia) and Tan Ying (formerly TsinghuaUniversity).
Part IV: Urban Impacts of Migration:.
12. Migrant Enclaves in Chinese Large Cities: Fan Jie (ChineseAcademy of Sciences and Peking Normal University) and WolfgangTaubmann (University of Bremen).
13. Social Polarization and Segregation in Beijing: Chaolin Gu(Nanjing University) and Haiyong Liu (University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill).
14. Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and SettlementPatterns: Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University).
Part V: Urbanization of the Countryside:.
15. Return Migrant Entrepreneurs and Economic Diversification inTwo Counties in South Jiangxi, China: Rachel Murphy (University ofCambridge).
16. Region-Based Urbanization in Post-Reform China: SpatialRestructuring in the Pearl River Delta: George C S Lin (TheUniversity of Hong Kong).
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY and Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. He is the co-author of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (1987), Beyond the City Limits (1990) and Family Ties: Enduring Relations between Parents and their Grown Children (1996).