This innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization. Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and comp…
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to…
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to…
Die weltweite Urbanisierung ist eine zentrale Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Seit 2007 wohnen erstmals mehr Menschen in Ballungsräumen als in ländlichen Regionen, im Jahr 2030 werden es 60 Prozent sein. Umso notweniger sind Städte und Agglomerationen auf vernetzte Technol…
Will China's cities be paved with gold or pockmarked with slums? In 2012 China will hit a development milestone: For the first time, half of the country's 1.3 billion citizens will live in urban areas. An additional 350 million future city dwellers are still completing the journ…
"By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on …
China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world has ever seen. The various papers in the book, written by a…
"China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world has ever seen. The various papers in the book, written by …
New narratives of urban space in republican Chinese cities: emerging social, legal and governance orders ; [d…
by Zelin, Madeleine, Su, Jilang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of History, Conference on Urban Cultural Change in Republican China, Hong Kong, International Conference on Urban Cultural Change in Republican China, Hong Kong
fromBrill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical p…