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China's urban billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / Tom Miller.
Lippincott Library HB2114.A3 M545 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Tom (Journalist)
- Series:
- Asian arguments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban-rural migration--China.
- Urban-rural migration.
- Rural-urban migration--Social aspects--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Rural-urban migration--Economic aspects--China.
- Urbanization--China.
- Urbanization.
- Rural-urban migration--Economic aspects.
- Rural-urban migration--Social aspects.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 192 pages : map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- Over the past thirty years, China's cities became home to 500 million new residents. China's urban population is on track to reach 1 billion by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these urban dwellers are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives in the city. Even those people lucky enough to live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities.
- Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the biggest migration in human history
- By the sweat of their brows : the people who built urban China
- Passport to purgatory : fixing the Hukou system
- Farm versus factory : the battle over land
- The construction orgy : paving the fields
- Ghost towns in the desert : how China builds its cities
- A billion wallets : what china's new urbanites will and won't buy
- Conclusion : civilizing the cities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780321417
- 1780321414
- 9781780321424
- 1780321422
- OCLC:
- 796757192
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