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“steven messner”

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  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Out of Mao's Shadow

    The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

    by Philip P. Pan ...
    From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation.Philip P. Pan's groundbreaking book takes us inside the dramatic battle for China's soul and into the lives of individuals struggling to come ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Postcards from Tomorrow Square

    Reports from China

    by James Fallows ...
    “Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Power at the Roots

    Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side

    by Miranda J. Martinez ...
    Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as social forces amid large scale urban change and looks at the complexities and contradictions involved ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Shanghai Gone

    Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

    by Qin Shao ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide—the eradication of a home against the will of its dwellers—to the sweeping destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • China's Urban Space

    Development under market socialism

    by Terry McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Wang, Andrew Marton, Jiaping Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s, arguing that to study the Chinese urbanization process one must recognize the distinctive political ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Shanghai in Transition

    Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

    by Jos Gamble ...
    In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

    Edited by Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Restructuring the Chinese City

    Changing Society, Economy and Space

    by Laurence J.C. Ma, Fulong Wu ...
    A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Subversion and the Creative City

    by Oli Mould ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion.The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist ... Read more

    $70.99 USD