Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space

by Ma,Laurence J.C.

• ISBN13: 9780415333856
• ISBN10: 0415333857
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Tremendous social and economic changes have taken place in Chinese Cities since China embarked on a reform programme. Such changes are best manifested in the built environment of the cities where geographic space, social life, demographic composition and economic production have witnessed restructuring from socialist patterns to increasingly market based forms. Restructuring the Chinese City brings together contributions from leading scholars on urban China to shed important light on critical issues of recent change in Chinese cities. The book will focus on how the new economy and changing society have (re)shaped urban space and place, and how the interplay among global, national and local forces comes together to reconfigure Chinese urban Space. Empirically grounded studies posit the significance of urban China research beyond the (post-) socialist city model. In the process it helping to theorize the changing regime of accumulation and spatial restructuring in the contemporary urbanworld.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xiv
1 Restructuring the Chinese city: diverse processes and reconstituted spaces	1	(20)
LAURENCE J.C. MA AND FULONG WU
2 City-space: scale relations and China's spatial administrative hierarchy	21	(18)
CAROLYN CARTIER
3 Space, scale and the state: reorganizing urban space in China	39	(20)
JIANFA SHEN
4 Dual land market and internal spatial structure of Chinese cities	59	(21)
ANTHONY GAR-ON YEH
5 Irregular trajectories: illegal building in mainland China and Hong Kong	80	(18)
ALAN SMART AND WING-SHING TANG
6 Globalization and the development of new central business districts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou	98	(24)
PIPER GAUBATZ
7 Historical memory, community-building and place-making in neighborhood Shanghai	122	(16)
TIANSHU PAN
8 Uneven development among Shanghai's three urban districts	138	(17)
TINGWEI ZHANG
9 Industrial restructuring and urban spatial transformation in Xi'an	155	(20)
HUAITING YIN, XIAOPING SHEN AND ZHE ZHAO
10 Residential mobility and urban change in China: what have we learned so far?	175	(17)
SI-MING LI
11 From work-unit compounds to gated communities: housing inequality and residential segregation in transitional Beijing	192	(30)
YOUQIN HUANG
12 Migrant residential distribution and metropolitan spatial development in Shanghai	222	(21)
WEIPING WU
13 Migrant enclaves and impacts of redevelopment policy in Chinese cities	243	(17)
LI ZHANG
14 The Chinese city in transition: towards theorizing China's urban restructuring	260	(20)
FULONG WU AND LAURENCE J.C. MA
Index	280