End of the Village - Planning the Urbanization of Rural China

"How China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life"--

List of contents

Contents
Introduction: China’s New Era of Urbanization 
1. Urbanization by Other Means: Planning under Urban–Rural Coordination 
2. Village Growth Machine: Charismatic Authority and the Urbanization of the Party 
3. Living on the Edge: Residents’ Urban–Rural Strategies of Survival 
4. Coordinative Planning: Property, Politics, and Uncertainty at the Urban–Rural Edge 
5. Village-as-the-City: Land Commodification, Shareholding, and Self-Urbanization 
6. The End of the Village: Experiences of Displacement 
Conclusion: Disjunctural Urbanization 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography 
Index

About the author

Nick R. Smith is assistant professor of architecture and urban studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. 

Product details

• Authors: Nick R. Smith
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781517910921
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1092-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Globalization and Community
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture