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1 online resource : map |
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Asian arguments |
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Asian arguments.
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Contents |
Front Cover -- Asian Arguments -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Map of China -- One: The New Map of China |
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The Ghost City Critique Building a New World Within the Four Seas -- Two: Clearing the Land -- Who Owns the Land? -- Building a New Country, Literally |
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Out with the Old, in with the New Out with the New, in with the Newer -- Clearing the Land -- Land Sales -- Manufacturing Land |
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Three: Of New Cities and Ghost CitiesWhat is a Ghost City? -- What is a Chinese City? -- The Political Structure of Chinese Municipalities -- Types of New Chinese Urban Development -- Building New Cities |
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Of New Cities Of Ghost Cities -- Why So Many Empty Apartments? -- Residents-in-waiting -- Economics on the Frontier -- Four: When Construction Ends the Building Begins |
Summary |
Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue-driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reas |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 14, 2015) |
Subject |
Planned communities -- China
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New towns -- China
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Real estate development -- China
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Urbanization -- China
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Politics & government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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New towns
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Planned communities
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Real estate development
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Urbanization
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Verstädterung
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Stadtplanung
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China
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China
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781783602209 |
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1783602201 |
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9781783602216 |
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178360221X |
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9781783602223 |
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1783602228 |
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1783602198 |
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9781783602193 |
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178360218X |
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9781783602186 |
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1350220388 |
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9781350220386 |
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