The Habitable City in China : Urban History in the Twentieth Century Hardback
Edited by Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao
Part of the Politics and Development of Contemporary China series
Hardback
Description
This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces.
China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades.
The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved.
They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces.
Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:231 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 231 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:24/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781137554703
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:231 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 231 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:24/11/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137554703
