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Author: Anne-Marie Broudehoux
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1134360614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Author: Ray Yep
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1786431637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an updated and nuanced analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.
Author: Philip P. Pan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1416537058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.
Author: Fulong Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134162162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book provides the first integrated treatment of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of new urban spaces.
Author: Fulong Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-13
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 113411771X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development.
Author: Fulong Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-13
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1134117701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common wisdom of Chinese ‘gradualism’, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including: local land development the local state private-public partnership foreign investment urbanization ageing home ownership. Providing a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.
Author: J. A. Mangan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1317966082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author: William A. Callahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0199604398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina is fast becoming the next superpower - a rise that presents a challenge to the world economically, politically and culturally. Drawing on extensive new Chinese sources, Professor Callahan sheds fascinating light on how Chinese people understand their changing place, and what that might mean for the world.
Author: Stephen Hamnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1136639276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?
Author: Nicholas Jewell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1317055152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp. This volume addresses a less explored aspect of China’s urban rejuvenation - the prominence of the shopping mall as a keystone of its public spaces. Here, the presence of the built form most representative of Western capitalism’s excess is one that makes explicit the tensions between China’s Communist state and its ascent within the ’free’ market. This book examines how these interrelationships are manifested in the culturally hybrid built form of the shopping mall and its role in contesting the ’public’ space of the modern Chinese city. By viewing these interrelationships as collisions of global and local narratives, a more nuanced understanding of the shopping mall typology is explored. Much architectural criticism has failed to address the levels of meaning implicit within the shopping mall, yet it is a building type whose public popularity has guaranteed its endurance. Consequently, if architecture is to remain a relevant social art, a more holistic understanding of this phenomenon will be indispensable to the process of adapting to globalizing forces. This examination of Chinese shopping malls offers a timely and relevant case study of what is happening in all our cities today.
