Main entry:

Friedmann, John.

Title & Author:

China's urban transition / John Friedmann.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxv, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index.
Becoming urban in China -- Historical traces -- Regional policies -- Urbanization of the countryside -- New spatial mobilities -- Expanding spaces of personal autonomy -- The governance of city-building -- Backward into the future.

Summary:

China has an urban history stretching back more than 5,000 years, but it is only very recently that the country has undergone urbanisation on the scale of a widespread social transformation. This study takes a look at this phenomenon in the context of rapid economic development.

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ISBN:

0816646147 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816646142 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816646155 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816646159 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urbanization China.
Local government China.
Civil society China.
Urban development China.
Urbanisation Chine.
Administration locale Chine.
Société civile Chine.
74.72 urban planning.
71.41 social changes (sociology)
Civil society.
Economic history.
Local government.
Urbanization.
Urbanisatie.
China Economic conditions 2000-
Chine Conditions économiques 2000-
China.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234481
Call No.: HT384.C6 F7 2005
Status: Available