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The great urban transformation : politics of land and property in China / You-tien Hsing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hsing, You-tien, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban policy--China.
- Urban policy.
- Land use, Urban--Economic aspects--China.
- Land use, Urban.
- Land use, Urban--Political aspects--China.
- Urbanization--China.
- Urbanization.
- Real estate investment--China.
- Real estate investment.
- China--Social conditions--2000-.
- China.
- China--Economic conditions--2000-.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Politics of land and property in China
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- This book emphasizes the centrality of cities in China's ongoing transformation. Based on fieldwork in twenty-four Chinese cities between 1996 and 2007, the author forwards an analysis of the relations between the city, the state, and society through two novel concepts: urbanization of the local state and civic territoriality. Urbanization of the local state is a process of state power restructuring entailing an accumulation regime based on the commodification of state-owned land, the consolidation of territorial authority through construction projects, and a policy discourse dominated by notions of urban modernity. Civic territoriality encompasses the politics of distribution engendered by urban expansionism, and social actors' territorial strategies toward self-protection. Findings are based on observations in three types of places. 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; their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Table; List of Chinese Terms; Prologue; 1. Land and Urban Politics; Part I: Redevelopment of the Urban Core; Part II: Expansion of the Metropolitan Region; Part III: Urbanization of the Rural Fringe; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612698248
- 9780191571374
- 0191571377
- 9780199644599
- 0199644594
- 9781282698246
- 1282698249
- 9780191721632
- 0191721638
- OCLC:
- 536370653
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