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China's Emerging Cities
The Making of New Urbanism
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common...
Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Globalization and the Chinese City
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed examination of the transformation of the built environment. A range of urban development processes...
Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
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Urban Development in Post-Reform China
State, Market, and Space
Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the...
Published November 15th 2006 by Routledge
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Restructuring the Chinese City
Changing Society, Economy and Space
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...
Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge
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GeoDynamics
While remote sensing gives a surface depiction of the world, its recent convergence with GIS enables richer depictions that can be used to simulate physical processes, identify trends, and make more accurate predictions. GeoDynamics is based on specialized lectures from an international field of...
Published December 15th 2004 by CRC Press