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The great urban transformation : politics of land and property in China / You-tien Hsing.
LIBRA HT384.C6 H75 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hsing, You-tien.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban policy--China.
- Urban policy.
- Real estate investment.
- Land use, Urban--Political aspects.
- Land use, Urban.
- Land use, Urban--Economic aspects.
- China.
- Land use, Urban--Economic aspects--China.
- Land use, Urban--Political aspects--China.
- Urbanization--China.
- Urbanization.
- Real estate investment--China.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- Social conditions.
- China--Economic conditions--2000-.
- Economic conditions.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, and their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined. The Great Urban Transformation explores these issues, and provides an integrated analysis of the city and the countryside, elite politics and grassroots activism, legal-economic and socio-political issues of property rights, and the role of the state and the market in the property market.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199568048
- 0199568049
- OCLC:
- 318409797
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