Urban China in Transition Hardback
Edited by John (Brown University) Logan
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series series
Hardback
Description
Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities.
It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in ChinaHighlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associationsEach chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropologyAn alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:18/12/2007
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- ISBN:9781405161459
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:380 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:18/12/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405161459
