Globalization and the Chinese City (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wu, Fulong

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors examine the impact of globalization on Chinese cities, including the economic, cultural and political impact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134263868
• Artikelnr.: 47884685

Autorenporträt

Fulong Wu is a reader in the school of Geography at the University of Southampton. His main research areas are urban spatial structure in Chinese cities, urban housing and land development, and he received the 2001 Otto Koenigsberger Prize from Habitat International. He serves as a member of the editorial advisory board of several architectural and planning journals and is co-editor with Laurence J.C. Ma of Restructuring the Chinese City (Routledge, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Globalization and Chinäs New Urbanism Section 1: Globalization and
Urbanization 2. Beyond the Reach of Globalization: Chinäs Border Regions
and Cities in Transition 3. Globalization and the Growth of Chinese Cities
Section 2: Globalizing Chinese Large Cities 4. Beijing as an
`Internationalized Metropolis¿ 5. Local and Social Change in a Globalized
City: The Case of Hong Kong 6. Globalizing Macau: The Emotional Costs of
Modernity 7. Cross-Boundary Integration of the Pearl River Delta and Hong
Kong: An Emerging Global City-Region in China 8. New Configuration of
Taipei under Globalization Section 3: City Development under Globalization
9. Global Capital and Local Land in Chinäs Urban Real Estate Development
10. Transplanting Cityscapes: Townhouse and Gated Community in
Globalization and Housing Commodification 11. A Globalized Golden Ghetto in
a Chinese Garden: The Fontainebleau Villas in Shanghai Section 4:
Globalization and Urban Political and Economic Implications 12. The
Creation of Global-Local Competitive Advantages in Shanghai 13.
Globalization and the Growth of New Economic Sectors in the Second-Tier
Extended Cities in the Yangtze River Delta 14. Political and Economic
Implications of New Public Spaces in Chinese and Asian Global Cities 15.
Globalization and Grassroots Practices: Community Development in
Contemporary Urban China