Samuel Y Liang

Remaking China's Great Cities

Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the urban transformations of three mega cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It examines the cities' continuous urban legacies since 1949 in relation to state governance, economic reforms, and cultural production. By adopting local historical perspectives, it offers more nuanced accounts of the current urban change than the modernization/globalization paradigm and conceptualizes the change in the context of the cities' socialist, colonial, and imperial legacies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415695909
• ISBN-10: 0415695902
• Artikelnr.: 33761643

Autorenporträt

Samuel Y. Liang is Associate Professor of Humanities and the Coordinator of Chinese Studies at Utah Valley University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Planning and Expansion 1. Urban planning and cellular
urbanism 2. Utopian urban forms and linear urbanism Part II: Housing and
Culture 3. Reinventing home as private retreat 4. The developer's real
estate culture 5. Homeowner subjectivity and social stratification Part
III: Renewal and Conservation 6. Rebuilding political centers 7. Rebuilding
urban slums 8. Spoliation and conservation 9. Epilogue: Resistance to
capitalist urbanization