Urban China in Transition - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources. Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America

ISBN:	9781405161459
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	Wiley Blackwell
Published date:	18 Dec 2007
DEWEY:	307.760951
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	361
Weight:	724g
Height:	241mm
Width:	172mm
Spine width:	27mm

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