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Author Hsing, You-tien, author.

Title The great urban transformation : politics of land and property in China / You-tien Hsing
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Table; List of Chinese Terms; Prologue; 1. Land and Urban Politics; Part I: Redevelopment of the Urban Core; Part II: Expansion of the Metropolitan Region; Part III: Urbanization of the Rural Fringe; Bibliography; Index
Summary As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At theurban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Politologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-248) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Urban policy -- China
Land use, Urban -- Economic aspects -- China
Land use, Urban -- Political aspects -- China
Urbanization -- China
Real estate investment -- China
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Economic history.
Land use, Urban -- Economic aspects.
Land use, Urban -- Political aspects.
Politics and government.
Real estate investment.
Social conditions.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
Subject China.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191571374
0191571377
9780191721632
0191721638