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Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level. During the imperial and socialist periods, state and society were embedded. However, as China has been becoming urban, the territorial foundation of 'earth-bound' society has been dismantled. This metaphorically started an urban revolution, which has transformed the social order derived show more from the 'state in society'. The state has thus become more visible in Chinese urban life. Besides witnessing the breaking down of socially integrated neighbourhoods, Fulong Wu explains the urban roots of a rising state in China. Instead of governing through autonomous stakeholders, state-sponsored strategic intentions remain. In the urban realm, the desire for greater residential privacy does not foster collectivism. State-led rebuilding of residential communities has sped up the demise of traditionalism and given birth to a new China with greater urbanism and state-centred governance. Taking the vantage point of concrete residential neighbourhoods, Creating Chinese Urbanism offers a cutting-edge analysis of how China is becoming urban and grounds the changing state governance in the process of urbanization. Its original and material interpretation of the changing role of the state in China makes it suitable reading for researchers and students in the fields of urban studies, geography, planning and the built environment. show lessTags
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Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. His research includes Chinas urban development and planning and its social and sustainable challenges. He is co-editor of Restructuring the Chinese City (2005), Marginalization in China (2010), International Perspectives on Suburbanization (2011), and Rural Migrants in Urban show more China (2013), editor of Globalization and the Chinese City (2006), Chinas Emerging Cities (2007), and co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space (2007), and Chinas Urban Poverty (2010). show less
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- Sociology, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 307.760951 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Communities Specific kinds of communities Urban communities Biography And History Asia China & Korea
- LCC
- HT361 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Urbanization. City and country
- BISAC
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- English
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