| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Imprint; Subvention; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World; 2. Changing Chongming; 3. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City; 4. It's a Green World After All? Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai; 5. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory-combined with an increasing desire worldwide for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food-are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, Julie Sze interrogates Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and the eco-technological fantasi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States
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Sustainable development -- China -- Shanghai
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Urban renewal -- China -- Shanghai
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- China -- Shanghai
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
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Sustainable development
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban renewal
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| SUBJECT |
Chongming Qu (Shanghai, China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008032595
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| Subject |
China -- Shanghai
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520959828 |
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0520959825 |
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1322167850 |
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9781322167855 |
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0520262484 |
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9780520262485 |
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