Remaking China's Great Cities Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion Asia's Transformations Series
Auteur : Liang Samuel Y.
China?s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation?s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the economic and financial powerhouse; and Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province and the regional center of south China. All are historical cities with rich imperial, colonial, and regional heritages, and all have been drastically transformed in the last six decades.
This book examines the cities? continuous urban legacies since 1949 in relation to state governance, economic reforms, and cultural production. By adopting local historical perspectives, it offers more nuanced accounts of the current urban change than the modernization/globalization paradigm and conceptualizes the change in the context of the cities? socialist, colonial, and imperial legacies. Specifically, Samuel Y. Liang offers an overview of the urban planning and territorial expansion of the great cities since 1949; explores the production and consumption of urban housing, its spatial forms, media representations, and socio-political implications; and examines the state-led redevelopment of old urban cores and residential neighborhoods, and the urban conservation movement.
Remaking China?s Great Cities will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a range of fields including Chinese studies, Chinese culture and society, urban studies and architecture.
Introduction Part I: Planning and Expansion 1. Urban planning and cellular urbanism 2. Utopian urban forms and linear urbanism Part II: Housing and Culture 3. Reinventing home as private retreat 4. The developer’s real estate culture 5. Homeowner subjectivity and social stratification Part III: Renewal and Conservation 6. Rebuilding political centers 7. Rebuilding urban slums 8. Spoliation and conservation 9. Epilogue: Resistance to capitalist urbanization
Samuel Y. Liang is Associate Professor of Humanities and the Coordinator of Chinese Studies at Utah Valley University, USA.
Date de parution : 05-2017
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Ouvrage de 208 p.
15.6x23.4 cm
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socialist; era; postsocialist; eras; people's; square; courtyard; houses; early; reform; Pearl River; China's Great Cities; Shanghai Grand Theater; Work Unit Compounds; Lilong House; People’s Square; Central Government; Courtyard Houses; Postsocialist Era; Early Reform Eras; Lilong Neighborhood; Forbidden City; Work Unit Employees; Gate Towers; Country Garden; Conservation Zones; Goldfish Pond; Thames Town; Satellite Towns; Axis Mundi; Western Style Villas; China’s Urban Housing Reforms; Urban Conservation; Self-help Constructions; Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reforms