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  • Changing Asian Urban Geographies

    Urbanism and Peripheral Areas

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Roger Keil ...
    This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path ... Read more

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  • After Suburbia

    Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Roger Keil, Fulong Wu ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, ... Read more

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  • Urban Development in Post-Reform China

    State, Market, and Space

    Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the interaction of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of ... Read more

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  • GeoDynamics

    While remote sensing gives a surface depiction of the world, its recent convergence with GIS enables richer depictions that can be used to simulate physical processes, identify trends, and make more accurate predictions. GeoDynamics is based on specialized lectures from an international field of experts, addressing remote sensing, spatially ... Read more

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  • Restructuring the Chinese City

    Changing Society, Economy and Space

    A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the ... Read more

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  • Planning for Growth

    Urban and Regional Planning in China

    by Fulong Wu ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China’s planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research and academic experience to support academics. It is the first accessible text on changing urban and ... Read more

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  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

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  • Globalization and the Chinese City

    Edited by Fulong Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed examination of the transformation of the built environment.A range of urban development processes are analyzed including urbanization, real estate development, changing landscapes, the industrial ... Read more

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  • China's Emerging Cities

    The Making of New Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    With 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 ... Read more

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  • Governing Urban Development in China

    Critical Urban Studies

    The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban development in the 21st century.Building upon a rich and burgeoning literature on China, the book explains major changes in governance, offers a well-synthesized account of state-centered governance, and provides in-depth discussions on urban governance, city ... Read more

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  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

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